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Senior Azure cloud Engineer

Gloifybhopal, madhya pradesh, in

23 hours ago

Job description

Senior Azure Cloud Engineer – Job Description

Location : Bangalore

Mode : Hybrid (2–3 days onsite per week)

Experience Required : 6+ years total

Notice Period : Immediate to 21 days preferred

Role Summary

We are hiring a Senior Azure Cloud Engineer to support infrastructure modernization, migration readiness, and cloud governance in enterprise-grade environments. The role involves working closely with platform leads and DevOps teams to deliver scalable, secure, and cost-optimized cloud infrastructure.

Candidates must have solid scripting experience (PowerShell or Bash) and hands-on exposure to at least one IaC tool (Terraform or Bicep). Experience with Azure Migrate, backup / DR processes, and CI / CD environments is essential. Strong documentation skills for SOPs, runbooks, and handoff materials are required.

Must-Have Skills & Required Depth 1. Azure Core IaaS (VMSS, VNets, Storage, ExpressRoute)

Deployment and configuration of production-grade VNets, subnets, NSGs, routing tables.
Connectivity setup using ExpressRoute or VPN.
Experience building HA setups with VMSS and troubleshooting network performance issues.

2. Infrastructure as Code – Terraform or Bicep

Ability to maintain or modify reusable IaC modules (resource groups, VNETs, route tables, firewall rules).

Experience working with remote state, secrets management, and environment variables.

Not required to author modules from scratch.

3. Scripting – PowerShell or Bash

Automation scripts for provisioning compute / network resources, policy updates, and backup triggers.

Scripts must include basic error handling, logging, and idempotent behavior.

Python is a plus, not mandatory.

4. Azure Governance – Policy, RBAC, Defender

Hands-on experience applying built-in / custom policies for tagging, SKU enforcement, and security configs.

RBAC assignment and IAM inheritance understanding.

Familiarity with Defender alerts and governance best practices.

5. Azure Migrate / Azure Arc

Experience running discovery and assessment via Azure Migrate.

Validating OS compatibility, patch levels, and preparing migration wave reports.

6. Azure Backup & DR Runbooks

Configuration of Recovery Services vaults, retention policies, and backup schedules.

Participation in DR drill preparation and runbook creation.

ASR knowledge preferred but not mandatory.

7. CI / CD Tools – Azure DevOps or GitHub

Exposure to release pipelines, IaC integration stages, artifact management.

Comfortable with GUI-based pipeline stages and branching models (not required to write full YAML).

8. Documentation & SOP Authoring

Experience creating as-built diagrams, runbooks, and deployment docs.

Ability to convert engineering steps into repeatable operational processes.

Nice-to-Have Skills

Azure Bicep – Ability to read / modify parameterized templates.

Azure Functions / AKS / Serverless – Basic awareness of deployment and container patterns.

Azure ASR (DR) – Understanding of replication policies and DR region setup.

Python – Basic scripting for automation or CLI tools.

Certifications (AZ-104 / AZ-305) – Preferred to validate technical depth.

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