DevOps Engineer

Our client, a leading and well-established organization with a strong market presence, is seeking an experienced and technically proficient DevOps Engineer to manage and optimize cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes platforms, CI/CD pipelines, DevSecOps practices, monitoring, and release governance. The role will play a critical part in ensuring high platform availability, secure and reliable deployments, operational excellence, and continuous cloud infrastructure optimization across Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud environments.

Key Responsibilities

Cloud Infrastructure Management

• Administer and maintain Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud environments
• Manage cloud resources, networks, security storage, and backups.
• Implement performance tuning and support disaster recovery

Kubernetes Administration (AKS & GKE)

• Manage AKS and GKE cksters, upgrades and Recycle management.
• Configure ingress, load balancing and autoscaling
• Implement Kubernetes security best praction

DevOps & CI/CD Management

• Administer Azure DevOps repositories and YAML pipelines.
• Manage branching, build validations and release automation
• Support self-hosted build and deployment agents

Release Governance & Deployment Assurance

• Establish release governance standards and approval workflows.
• Coordinate production and non-productions
• Maintain audit trails and conduct post-release validation

DevSecOps & Security

• Implement secure DevOps practices across the SDLC
• Manage SonarQube, SAST, container and dependency scanning
• Conduct vulnerability assessments and enforce security gates

Monitoring & Incident Management

• Configure Azure Monitor, Log Analytics and Application insights.
• Develop dashboards and alerting mechanisms.
• Manage incident investigation RCA and resolution of critical outages.

FinOps & Cost Optimization

• Monitor cloud expenditure across Azure and Google Cloud
• Identify rightsizing and optimization opportunities.
• Recommend Reserved instances and produce cost reports.

Documentation & Governance

• Maintain architecture documentation, runbooks and SOPs.
• Ensure DR documentation is current and support audits.

Recovery & Business Continuity

• Coordinate DR exercises and validate RTC/RPO
• Manage backup restoration testing
• Produce DR reports and improvement recommendations

Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)

• 99% platform availability maintained
• SLA compliance of 95% or above
• Critical incident response within 30 minutes
• Successful deployment rate above 98%
• Zero critical security vulnerabilities unresolved
• Quarterly disaster recovery test completion
• Monthly cloud cost optimization targets achieved 100% release governance compliance
• Timely completion of operational and governance reports

Qualifications & Experience

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Technology, or a related field.
• Minimum 5 years of experience in DevOps, Cloud Operations. or Site Reliablity Engineering.
• Hands-on experience managing production Microsoft Azure environments.
• Experience with Kubernetes-based platforms (AKS and/or GKE)
• Proven experience with CVCD and DevOps platforms.
• Experience implementing DevSecOps frameworks.
• Strong understanding of cloud security, monitoring, DR and FinOps

Certifications (Preferred)

• Microsoft Certified: Azure Administrator (AZ-104)
• Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect (AZ-305)
• Microsoft Certified: DevOps Engineer Expert (AZ-400)
• Microsoft Certified: Azure Security Engineer (AZ-500)
• Google Cloud Associate Cloud Engineer
• Google Cloud Professional Cloud Architect 
• Kubernetes Certifications (CKA/CKAD