Hybrid Lead – Azure DevOps, Infrastructure Engineer

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• Job title: Lead – Azure DevOps, Infrastructure Engineer
• Job type: Contract
• Experience level: Senior
• Salary: Not specified
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Tech skills: Azure, Cloud, Kubernetes, Terraform, Vault
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Hyderabad, India

About the role

• Lead Azure DevOps & Infrastructure Engineer responsible for designing and implementing Azure cloud infrastructure. Oversee execution with a focus on high availability and mentoring team members.

Responsibilities

• Design, architect, and implement scalable, highly available, secure, and cost-optimized infrastructure on Microsoft Azure.
• Define reference architectures for enterprise workloads, including networking, identity, security, and platform services.
• Architect infrastructure to support high-performance, resilient, and mission-critical production systems.
• Plan and execute zero- or near-zero-downtime migrations from on-prem or other clouds to Azure.
• Develop and maintain Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform for enterprise-scale environments.
• Enforce modular, reusable, and policy-driven IaC patterns aligned with Azure Landing Zone principles.
• Implement automated validation, security scanning, and drift detection for infrastructure changes.
• Design and operate Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) clusters for multi-environment workloads.
• Manage Kubernetes deployments using Helm and/or Kustomize, following GitOps best practices.
• Implement and operate GitOps workflows using Argo CD or equivalent tools.
• Define platform standards for networking, ingress, secrets management, observability, and scaling.
• Design and implement robust CI/CD pipelines using tools such as GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, GitLab, Harness, or similar.
• Implement advanced deployment strategies including rolling updates, canary releases, and blue/green deployments.
• Ensure pipeline auditability, traceability, and observability, including approvals, artifact promotion, and rollback mechanisms.
• Embed security-by-design principles across infrastructure and pipelines (IAM, RBAC, secrets, network security).
• Implement Azure-native security controls (e.g., Defender for Cloud, Policy, Key Vault).
• Support audit, compliance, and regulatory requirements through automation and evidence generation.
• Drive reliability engineering practices, including monitoring, alerting, SLOs, and incident response.
• Provide technical leadership, mentoring, and coaching to infrastructure and DevOps engineers.
• Collaborate with Service Delivery Leads to support agile planning, backlog creation, and delivery execution when required.
• Lead troubleshooting and resolution of complex, cross-layer infrastructure and platform issues.
• Drive root cause analysis and continuous improvement across environments and processes.

Requirements

• 10+ years of experience in Infrastructure Engineering, DevOps, or Platform Engineering roles.
• Strong hands-on expertise with Microsoft Azure, including networking, compute, storage, identity, and security services.
• Proven experience architecting highly available, scalable, and secure cloud platforms.
• Deep expertise in Terraform for large-scale infrastructure automation.
• Strong experience with Kubernetes (AKS) and ecosystem tools (Helm, Kustomize, Argo CD).
• Solid understanding of Git-based workflows, branching strategies, and CI/CD best practices.
• Demonstrated experience with deployment strategies and production-grade release management.
• Strong background in security, auditability, and compliance in cloud environments.
• Excellent analytical, troubleshooting, and problem-solving skills.
• Strong communication skills with the ability to engage both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Proven experience in technical leadership, mentoring, and building high-performing teams.
• Experience working in client-facing environments and managing technical expectations.