As a Senior Azure CloudOps Engineer, you will be part of a specialized team responsible for enhancing the operational excellence of Azure-based customer platforms. You will design, automate, optimize, and support cloud operations across infrastructure, identity management, networking, observability, database operations, incident management, and platform reliability.
This is neither a pure development role nor a traditional support role. It is an end-to-end CloudOps position focused on production readiness, operational stability, and continuous improvement.
Your Responsibilities
Design, implement, and continuously improve Azure operations for business-critical enterprise platforms.
Gather, analyze, and evaluate operational and technical requirements across Azure services.
Build and maintain automated infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code (Terraform).
Design and implement Azure architectures for hybrid and cloud-native environments.
Operate and optimize Azure services across:
Networking
Identity and Access Management (IAM)
Governance
Security and Compliance
Platform Reliability
Implement and maintain monitoring, logging, alerting, and observability solutions.
Drive operational excellence for Azure App Services and Web Apps.
Operate and support Azure Database for PostgreSQL, including:
Backup and recovery procedures
Performance tuning
Availability and maintenance management
Operational troubleshooting
Support incident management, troubleshooting, root cause analysis, and service restoration in production environments.
Create and maintain runbooks, operational documentation, support handover guides, and incident reports.
Drive Azure cost transparency and optimization initiatives.
Support integration with enterprise tools such as:
New Relic
Vault and other secrets management solutions
Collaborate closely with lead developers, architects, DevOps engineers, QA engineers, product owners, and delivery teams.
Contribute to the development of structured support processes and operational readiness for on-call environments.
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YOUR PROFILE
Must-have Skills
Proven experience as a Senior Azure Engineer, Azure Operations Engineer, or CloudOps Engineer in enterprise or business-critical environments.
Strong expertise in:
Azure Networking
Microsoft Entra ID
Azure Governance
Security & Compliance
Hands-on experience with:
Terraform
PowerShell
Azure CLI and/or Bash Scripting
Strong experience in:
Monitoring, Logging, and Alerting
Incident Management and Troubleshooting
Performance and Stability Optimization
Azure App Services and Web Apps
Azure Database for PostgreSQL
Backup, Restore, and Disaster Recovery Procedures
Cost Management and FinOps Fundamentals
Practical knowledge of:
DevOps Processes
CI/CD Pipelines
Release and Change Management Processes
Strong analytical and problem-solving capabilities.
High level of ownership and proactive working style.
Ability to work effectively within distributed delivery teams.
Strong documentation skills and structured communication approach.
Nice-to-have Skills
Experience with New Relic integration.
Experience with HashiCorp Vault or similar secrets management solutions.
Experience with AKS (Azure Kubernetes Service) and Kubernetes.
Microsoft Azure certifications such as:
AZ-104
AZ-305
AZ-400
Experience working in regulated enterprise environments or the utilities and energy sector.
What We Expect from You
Understand that successful cloud engineering extends beyond implementation and includes reliable operations.
Ability to work independently while aligning with architectural standards and customer expectations.
Comfortable working within structured enterprise delivery environments.
Strong written communication skills for tickets, technical reports, runbooks, and Root Cause Analysis (RCA) documentation.
Take ownership of operational challenges and drive them through to resolution.
Why Join
Work on enterprise-scale Azure platforms with significant business impact.
Be part of a specialized cloud engineering team.
Contribute to production-grade cloud operations, not just project delivery.
Collaborate in an international environment with strong engineering practices and standards.
Grow your expertise across Azure architecture, automation, operations, and customer delivery.
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