DevOps Engineer – Azure / AKS / IaC
Confirmed on the employer's own hiring board on Sep 29, 2026. First seen by Alion on Jul 8, 2026. Salt scores C on the Alion truth index.
This role will take ownership of deployment, infrastructure-as-code, CI/CD pipelines and operational reliability across a complex Azure environment. The successful candidate will ensure that platform components are deployed consistently, tested automatically and operated reliably, with a strong focus on automation, security, scalability and reproducibility.
You will be responsible for managing Azure infrastructure, AKS operations, container governance, monitoring, alerting, secrets management and disaster recovery processes across the platform.
Key Responsibilities: Own and maintain Azure infrastructure using Terraform or Bicep
Design and manage CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps or GitHub Actions
Manage AKS clusters, namespaces, RBAC, network policies and autoscaling
Oversee container image build, signing, governance and deployment processes
Configure Azure Monitor, Log Analytics and KQL-based alerting
Manage Azure Key Vault, secrets, certificates and managed identities
Support security controls including Azure Policy, Defender for Cloud and private endpoints
Maintain and test disaster recovery procedures across Azure services
Work closely with security, engineering and platform teams to ensure operational reliability
Required Experience: 5+ years’ experience in DevOps, Platform Engineering or Cloud Engineering
2+ years’ hands-on experience working with Azure
Strong experience with Terraform or Bicep in production environments
Strong Kubernetes / AKS experience, including namespaces, RBAC, Network Policies and Helm
Experience building and maintaining multi-stage CI/CD pipelines
Strong knowledge of Azure Monitor, Log Analytics and KQL
Experience with Docker, ACR, image signing and container governance
Good understanding of Azure networking, including VNets, NSGs, private endpoints, Azure Firewall and ExpressRoute concepts
Experience with KEDA or similar autoscaling technologies
Nice to Have: Azure Key Vault, Managed Identity and Workload Identity experience
OPA Gatekeeper or Kyverno experience
Kafka or Azure Event Hubs experience
ADLS Gen2, WORM storage or lifecycle management experience
Azure AI Foundry or APIM experience
Defender for Cloud, Sentinel or Notary v2 experience
AZ-104, AZ-400 or CKA certification Salt is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.