Senior Azure DevOps Engineer - CI / CD Pipeline

Description : We are seeking a highly skilled Senior Azure DevOps Engineer to design, implement, and manage robust DevOps pipelines and infrastructure automation across multiple technology stacks.

The ideal candidate will have deep hands-on experience with Azure DevOps, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), CI / CD automation, and containerized microservices deployed on Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS).

You will play a key role in modernizing and scaling our software delivery pipelines, ensuring reliability, security, and efficiency in all stages of the DevOps lifecyclefrom code integration to deployment, monitoring, and optimization.

Key Responsibilities :

CI / CD Pipeline Design & Automation :

• Design, develop, and maintain end-to-end CI / CD pipelines in Azure DevOps (YAML-based) for applications built in Java, Python, ReactJS, and microservices architectures.
• Integrate code quality and security tools like SonarQube, Veracode, Checkmarx, and Snyk within build pipelines.
• Automate artifact management and versioning using Azure Artifacts, ACR (Azure Container Registry), and other repositories.
• Create multi-stage release pipelines with approvals, gates, and rollback mechanisms for controlled deployments.
• Implement blue-green and canary deployment strategies for zero-downtime as Code (IaC) & Cloud Automation :
• Design, develop, and maintain ARM, Bicep, or Terraform templates for provisioning and managing Azure infrastructure (VMs, AKS clusters, App Services, Key Vaults, VNets, Load Balancers, Storage Accounts, etc.).
• Implement configuration management and post-deployment automation using Ansible, PowerShell DSC, or Chef / Puppet.
• Build reusable infrastructure modules for consistency and compliance across environments (Dev, QA, UAT, Prod).
• Integrate IaC deployments with CI / CD workflows for automated environment & Orchestration :
• Design and deploy containerized applications using Docker and Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS).
• Configure Helm charts, Ingress controllers, secrets management, network policies, and rolling / auto-scaling updates for production workloads.
• Manage container image scanning, versioning, and vulnerability remediation.
• Optimize container performance and resource utilization across clusters.

Monitoring, Logging & Observability :

Security, Compliance & Governance :

Required Skills & Qualifications :

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