Azure DevOps Engineer
First seen by Alion on Sep 29, 2026.
Role Overview :
We are looking for an experienced Azure DevOps Engineer to design, implement, and maintain reliable CI/CD pipelines, cloud infrastructure, deployment automation, and DevOps practices on Microsoft Azure.
The ideal candidate should have strong hands-on experience with Azure DevOps, Azure Pipelines, GitHub Actions, Git, and Infrastructure as Code, along with a strong understanding of secure and scalable deployment practices.
Key Responsibilities :
- Design, build, maintain, and optimize CI/CD pipelines using Azure Pipelines and/or GitHub Actions.
- Automate application build, testing, deployment, release, and rollback processes.
- Implement deployment strategies including rolling, canary, blue-green, and zero-downtime deployments.
- Manage source code using Azure Repos and/or GitHub, including branch policies, pull requests, code reviews, and repository governance.
- Implement and maintain Infrastructure as Code (IaC) for Azure environments using tools such as Terraform, ARM templates, or Bicep.
- Provision, configure, and manage Azure infrastructure and cloud resources across development, test, staging, and production environments.
- Automate environment configuration, deployment, scaling, and operational tasks.
- Implement DevOps best practices covering version control, release management, environment management, and deployment governance.
- Integrate automated testing, code quality checks, security scanning, and approval gates into CI/CD pipelines.
- Monitor application and infrastructure health and support logging, alerting, observability, and performance optimization.
- Troubleshoot deployment failures, pipeline issues, infrastructure problems, and production incidents and perform root-cause analysis.
- Implement appropriate security controls, secrets management, identity/access controls, and compliance checks within DevOps workflows.
- Collaborate with Development, QA, Security, Infrastructure, Architecture, and Application teams to enable smooth software delivery.
- Support cloud migration, modernization, and deployment automation initiatives.
- Maintain deployment documentation, runbooks, pipeline standards, and operational procedures.
- Identify opportunities to improve automation, release efficiency, platform reliability, and developer productivity.
Required Skills & Experience :
- 6 - 10 years of experience in DevOps, Cloud Engineering, Platform Engineering, or related roles.
- Strong hands-on experience with Microsoft Azure and Azure DevOps.
- Strong experience with Azure Pipelines and/or GitHub Actions.
- Strong understanding of CI/CD, build automation, release management, and deployment strategies.
- Hands-on experience with Git, Azure Repos, and GitHub, including branching strategies, pull requests, and branch policies.
- Strong experience with Infrastructure as Code, preferably Terraform, ARM, or Bicep.
- Good understanding of Azure infrastructure, networking, compute, storage, identity, and security services.
- Experience implementing automated testing, code-quality checks, and security controls within CI/CD pipelines.
- Good understanding of cloud-native deployment patterns and environment management.
- Experience with monitoring, logging, troubleshooting, and production support.
- Strong scripting/automation skills using PowerShell, Bash, Python, or equivalent.
- Strong understanding of DevOps lifecycle, Agile practices, and software delivery processes.
- Strong analytical, troubleshooting, and problem-solving skills.
- Good communication and collaboration skills.
- Ability to work independently and manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment.
Skills
Azure, CI/CD, Terraform, DevOps, Cloud Infrastructure, CI/CD Pipeline, Release Management