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About the Role

The Microsoft DevOps Engineer designs, implements, and supports secure, resilient, and automated Microsoft Azure platforms. This role owns CI/CD pipelines, Infrastructure as Code, cloud operations, monitoring, and continuous improvement, collaborating closely with various teams to accelerate reliable technology delivery.

Responsibilities

• Design, deploy, and manage Microsoft Azure environments in line with approved architecture and governance standards.
• Support Azure landing zones, networking, compute, storage, backup, and disaster recovery services.
• Optimize cloud platform performance, resilience, capacity, and cost.
• Design and maintain Azure DevOps CI/CD pipelines using reusable YAML templates.
• Automate infrastructure and application deployment using Terraform, Bicep, or ARM templates.
• Manage Git repositories, branching controls, pull requests, artifact versioning, and release processes.
• Develop PowerShell, Azure CLI, and workflow automation to reduce manual operational effort.
• Implement monitoring and alerting with Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, and Application Insights.
• Investigate platform and deployment incidents, complete root cause analysis, and drive corrective actions.
• Maintain operational dashboards, service documentation, and platform health reporting.
• Embed DevSecOps controls, secure coding checks, secrets management, and vulnerability remediation into delivery pipelines.
• Apply least privilege, RBAC, Entra ID, Conditional Access, and Privileged Identity Management controls.
• Support security reviews, audits, and compliance requirements, including ISO 27001-aligned practices.
• Partner with developers, infrastructure, security, data, and business teams to translate requirements into robust technical solutions.
• Contribute to Agile planning, technical design reviews, and release readiness activities.
• Maintain architecture diagrams, runbooks, standards, and knowledge articles.
• Identify and implement opportunities to improve reliability, delivery speed, and operational efficiency.

Requirements

• Three to five or more years of Azure, cloud engineering, or DevOps experience.
• Practical experience building and supporting Azure DevOps pipelines and Infrastructure as Code.
• Strong troubleshooting skills across cloud infrastructure, identity, networking, and deployment tooling.
• Experience working within Agile, change-controlled, and security-conscious enterprise environments.
• Experience designing and supporting enterprise database structures and data models.
• Strong understanding of relational database design principles, normalization, indexing, and data integrity.
• Experience with Microsoft SQL Server and Azure SQL Database administration.
• Knowledge of data platform architecture including transactional, reporting, and analytical workloads.
• Experience designing data integration solutions between ERP, CRM, HR, and business systems.
• Ability to create and maintain logical and physical data models, entity relationship diagrams (ERDs), and data dictionaries.
• Experience implementing data governance, security, retention, and auditing controls.
• Understanding of modern Microsoft data platforms, including Azure Data Factory, Azure Data Lake, Synapse Analytics, and Microsoft Fabric.
• Experience supporting reporting and analytics solutions using Power BI.
• Proactive, methodical, and accountable, with strong attention to detail.
• Clear communicator able to work effectively with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Automation-first mindset with a focus on reliability, security, and measurable improvement.
• Able to prioritize competing demands and operate effectively in a fast-paced environment.

Skills

• Microsoft Azure
• Azure landing zones
• Virtual machines
• Storage
• VNETs
• NSGs
• VPN
• ExpressRoute
• Azure Backup
• Site Recovery
• Key Vault
• Azure Policy
• Azure DevOps Services
• Azure Repos
• Azure Pipelines
• YAML
• Git
• Branching and release strategies
• Artifact management
• Continuous integration and deployment
• Terraform
• Bicep
• ARM templates
• Configuration management
• Reusable modules
• Environment standardisation
• Microsoft Entra ID
• Conditional Access
• RBAC
• PIM
• MFA
• SSO
• Microsoft Intune
• Endpoint management
• PowerShell
• Azure CLI
• Bash
• Python
• REST APIs
• Automation runbooks
• Workflow integration
• Docker
• Kubernetes
• Azure Kubernetes Service
• Azure Container Registry
• Cloud-native concepts
• Microservices concepts
• Security by design
• Secure SDLC
• Secrets management
• Vulnerability management
• Policy compliance
• Threat monitoring
• ISO 27001 awareness
• Azure Monitor
• Log Analytics
• Application Insights
• Incident management
• Root cause analysis
• Performance optimisation
• SRE principles
• Agile
• Scrum
• Stakeholder management
• Technical documentation
• Problem solving
• Knowledge sharing
• Vendor collaboration
• Continuous improvement

Experience Level

• Three to five or more years of Azure, cloud engineering or DevOps experience

Education Level

• Microsoft Certified: DevOps Engineer Expert, Azure Administrator Associate or Azure Solutions Architect Expert is desirable.
• Terraform Associate and ITIL Foundation certifications are desirable.

About the Company

• Cloud & Infrastructure Microsoft