Senior Software Engineer, DevOps (Azure)
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About the Role
Jobgether is seeking a Senior Software Engineer, DevOps (Azure) for a partner company. The role involves designing and operating Azure cloud environments, building CI/CD pipelines, managing AKS, and ensuring production reliability.
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Responsibilities
- Design, implement, and maintain production grade Azure infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code (Bicep)
- Build and manage CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps YAML, integrating automated testing, deployment gates, and secure delivery workflows
- Operate and optimize Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), including cluster performance tuning, autoscaling, Helm based deployments, and networking configurations
- Manage and support Azure API Management, Azure App Gateway, and Azure Front Door to ensure secure and high performance application delivery
- Support event driven architectures using Azure Event Hubs (including Kafka support) for real time data processing and microservices communication
- Own production reliability, including monitoring with Azure Monitor and Application Insights, incident response, and root cause analysis
- Enforce cloud security best practices using Azure Entra ID, RBAC, Key Vault, Azure Policy, and container security controls
- Collaborate with development teams to improve DevOps maturity, Git workflows, and cloud native engineering practices
Requirements
- 6+ years of experience in DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering, or Cloud Engineering within the Microsoft Azure ecosystem
- Strong hands on expertise with Azure core services, including VNets, NSGs, load balancers, and storage solutions
- Proven experience designing and maintaining Infrastructure as Code using Bicep or equivalent tools
- Deep experience with AKS in production environments, including scaling, networking, and workload optimization
- Solid knowledge of Azure APIM, App Gateway, and Event Hubs (Kafka integration preferred)
- Strong scripting and automation skills using PowerShell, Azure CLI, and/or Python
- Strong understanding of cloud security, including identity management, vulnerability scanning, and secure CI/CD practices
- Excellent communication skills with the ability to collaborate across engineering and product teams
- Comfortable working independently in agile, fast paced, remote environments
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Position Overview
- This role is a senior level DevOps engineering position focused on designing, building, and operating scalable, secure, and highly available Azure cloud environments.
- You will take ownership of the full infrastructure lifecycle, enabling development teams through robust CI/CD pipelines, Infrastructure as Code, and modern cloud native practices.
- Working in a high impact engineering environment, you will manage production critical systems across Kubernetes, API gateways, event driven architectures, and distributed cloud services.
- This is an opportunity to shape cloud infrastructure strategy while working in a fully remote, globally distributed engineering team.
Accountabilities
- Design, implement, and maintain production grade Azure infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code (Bicep), ensuring scalable and reproducible cloud environments.
- Build and manage CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps YAML, integrating automated testing, deployment gates, and secure delivery workflows.
- Operate and optimize Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), including cluster performance tuning, autoscaling, Helm based deployments, and networking configurations.
- Manage and support Azure API Management, Azure App Gateway, and Azure Front Door to ensure secure and high performance application delivery.
- Support event driven architectures using Azure Event Hubs (including Kafka support) for real time data processing and microservices communication.
- Own production reliability, including monitoring with Azure Monitor and Application Insights, incident response, and root cause analysis.
- Enforce cloud security best practices using Azure Entra ID, RBAC, Key Vault, Azure Policy, and container security controls.
- Collaborate with development teams to improve DevOps maturity, Git workflows, and cloud native engineering practices.
Requirements
- 6+ years of experience in DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering, or Cloud Engineering within the Microsoft Azure ecosystem.
- Strong hands on expertise with Azure core services, including VNets, NSGs, load balancers, and storage solutions.
- Proven experience designing and maintaining Infrastructure as Code using Bicep or equivalent tools.
- Deep experience with AKS in production environments, including scaling, networking, and workload optimization.
- Solid knowledge of Azure APIM, App Gateway, and Event Hubs (Kafka integration preferred).
- Strong scripting and automation skills using PowerShell, Azure CLI, and/or Python.
- Strong understanding of cloud security, including identity management, vulnerability scanning, and secure CI/CD practices.
- Excellent communication skills with the ability to collaborate across engineering and product teams.
- Comfortable working independently in agile, fast paced, remote environments.
- Azure certifications such as AZ 400 or AZ 305 are a plus.
- Experience with GitOps (Flux or ArgoCD), service meshes (Istio), or FinOps practices is a bonus.
Benefits
- Competitive USD based salary aligned with experience.
- Fully remote work environment.
- Long term full time employment opportunity.
- 20+ days of paid time off annually.
- Opportunity to work with modern Azure cloud native technologies at scale.
- Exposure to high impact, production critical systems in a global engineering environment.
- Collaborative and growth oriented engineering culture with strong ownership and autonomy.
How Jobgether Works
- We use an AI powered matching process to ensure your application is reviewed quickly, objectively, and fairly against the role's core requirements.
- Our system identifies the top fitting candidates, and this shortlist is then shared directly with the hiring company.
- The final decision and next steps (interviews, assessments) are managed by their internal team.
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