Senior Azure Administrator / DevOps Engineer

Experience: 47 Years
Location: Phase 7 Industrial Area Mohali
Employment Type: Full-Time
Department: Engineering / Cloud Infrastructure

Role Overview

We are looking for a Senior Azure Administrator / DevOps Engineer to take ownership of the cloud infrastructure deployment pipelines security reliability monitoring and day-to-day operations of our enterprise SaaS applications hosted on Microsoft Azure.

The candidate will be responsible for managing a production architecture built around Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) Azure Front Door NGINX Ingress Azure Database for MySQL Azure Managed Redis Azure Storage Azure Event Hubs Azure Web PubSub Azure Key Vault Azure Monitor Azure AI services and private networking.

The ideal candidate should have strong hands-on experience managing production AKS environments and deploying and operating applications at scale.

Key Responsibilities

• Own and manage production staging UAT and development infrastructure on Microsoft Azure.
  

• Administer and operate Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) clusters hosting applications and supporting services.
  

• Manage AKS node pools system and user node pools upgrades autoscaling resource requests/limits health probes Pod Disruption Budgets and cluster capacity.
  

• Design and maintain secure Azure networking including VNets subnets NSGs private endpoints private DNS Hub-Spoke architecture and controlled administrative access.
  

• Manage NGINX Ingress Controller Azure Front Door WAF policies TLS certificates DNS routing and application traffic management.
  

• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines for and Angular applications using Azure DevOps Jenkins GitHub Actions or equivalent platforms.
  

• Manage Docker image creation container registries Kubernetes manifests Helm charts deployment strategies rollback procedures and environment configurations.
  

• Implement safe deployment strategies such as Rolling Updates Blue-Green and Canary deployments where required.
  

• Manage Azure Database for MySQL Redis Storage Accounts Event Hubs Web PubSub Key Vault and other Azure services used by applications.
  

• Implement centralized application and infrastructure logging for applications containers Kubernetes workloads ingress controllers and Azure resources.
  

• Build dashboards alerts and monitoring using Azure Monitor Log Analytics Application Insights Prometheus Grafana and similar observability tools.
  

• Troubleshoot production issues involving Kubernetes networking DNS application deployments database connectivity Redis CPU/memory utilization latency and infrastructure failures.
  

• Implement infrastructure security best practices including RBAC Managed Identities Workload Identity Key Vault integration secrets management network isolation and least-privilege access.
  

• Manage infrastructure backup disaster recovery database replication cross-region recovery procedures and periodically conduct DR drills.
  

• Implement Infrastructure as Code using Terraform Bicep ARM templates or equivalent technologies.
  

• Perform Azure cost monitoring capacity planning infrastructure optimization and FinOps activities.
  

• Conduct infrastructure vulnerability remediation patch management AKS upgrades Kubernetes version upgrades and Azure service lifecycle management.
  

• Maintain infrastructure architecture diagrams deployment procedures operational runbooks DR documents and incident response procedures.
  

• Participate in production incident management Root Cause Analysis (RCA) and preventive action implementation.
  

• Work closely with backend frontend mobile security and QA teams to ensure reliable application releases.
  

• Mentor junior DevOps engineers and establish DevOps standards deployment controls and infrastructure best practices.
  

Required Skills & Experience

• 47 years of experience in DevOps Cloud Infrastructure SRE or Azure Administration roles.
  

• Minimum 23 years of strong production experience with Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS).
  

• Strong hands-on experience with Microsoft Azure infrastructure and networking.
  

• Experience deploying and operating applications in production environments.
  

• Strong knowledge of Docker Kubernetes Helm container registries and containerized deployments.
  

• Experience with Azure Front Door WAF Load Balancers NGINX Ingress VNets NSGs Private Endpoints and Private DNS.
  

• Strong CI/CD experience with Azure DevOps Jenkins GitHub Actions or similar platforms.
  

• Experience implementing centralized logging monitoring alerting and production observability.
  

• Working knowledge of Azure Database for MySQL and Redis administration monitoring backup and performance troubleshooting.
  

• Experience with Infrastructure as Code using Terraform or Bicep.
  

• Strong Linux administration and shell scripting skills.
  

• Understanding of application deployment architecture REST APIs WebSockets background workers queues and distributed systems.
  

• Strong troubleshooting skills across application Kubernetes networking database and cloud infrastructure layers.
  

• Experience handling production incidents and performing Root Cause Analysis.
  

• Good understanding of cloud security RBAC secrets management vulnerability remediation and infrastructure hardening.
  

Azure Certification

Candidate should hold at least one relevant Microsoft Azure certification preferably:

AZ-104 Microsoft Certified: Azure Administrator Associate

Additional preferred certifications include:

AZ-400 Microsoft Certified: DevOps Engineer Expert
AZ-305 Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert
AZ-500 Microsoft Certified: Azure Security Engineer Associate

Good to Have

Experience with Azure Event Hubs Azure Web PubSub Azure AI services Azure Storage/ADLS Gen2 multi-region deployments high-availability architectures DR environments ISO 27001 environments security audits VAPT remediation SAST/SCA tooling FinOps and high-scale B2B SaaS platforms will be an advantage.

What We Expect from the Senior Engineer

This is an infrastructure ownership role not only a CI/CD pipeline management position.

The engineer should be capable of independently owning the Azure environment making architecture recommendations handling production incidents improving security and reliability planning capacity controlling cloud costs maintaining DR readiness and continuously improving the DevOps and infrastructure practices of the engineering organization.