Azure DevOps Engineer

Job Title

Azure DevOps Engineer

Location

Dallas TX

Project Duration

12 months Contract

Job Type

Contract

Work Arrangement

Work from Client Office – 5 days a week

Interview

Please apply if you can go for Immediate In person interview at Richardson TX on 10th September.

You can apply if you are available on some other day as well

(Need Locals only)

Job Description

Key Responsibilities

DevOps Strategy & CI/CD

• Lead CI/CD best practices (CI, CD, automated testing, TDD) and drive continuous improvement across infrastructure, deployments, and incident response.
• Manage and scale enterprise GitOps delivery pipelines and cloud-native infrastructure exclusively across Microsoft Azure for engineering platforms.
• GitHub Actions: Build modular CI workflows integrated with Azure Container Registry (ACR), Azure-hosted runners, and automated DevSecOps security gates.
• ArgoCD on AKS: Orchestrate continuous delivery, drift reconciliation, and progressive rollouts across multi-cluster Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) environments using Helm and Kustomize.
• Infrastructure as Code: Automate and secure Azure infrastructure using Terraform or Bicep, enforcing governance via Azure Key Vault, Entra ID Workload Identity, and Azure Monitor.
• Design and maintain resilient, scalable, secure infrastructure supporting telecom-grade availability.
• Build end-to-end deployment pipelines (GitHub, GitHub Actions, MSSQL) with automated promotion across Dev/Staging/Production.
• Champion Infrastructure as Code (Terraform/Ansible) and enforce pipeline governance, security scanning, and dependency checks.

Automation & Release Engineering

• Install and maintain Windows Server-based GitHub Actions self-hosted runners (99.9% uptime).
• Develop production-grade PowerShell scripts for deployment, backup, rollback, health checks, and validation, with robust error handling and auditing.
• Integrate GitHub with Jira for automated ticket lifecycle management and deployment tracking.

Cloud, Monitoring & Observability

• Design cloud-native solutions using Azure, AWS to support database deployment automation and cost optimization.
• Implement monitoring/observability using Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, Splunk, Zabbix, and Dynatrace; define SLAs/SLOs/SLIs.
• Configure Slack/PagerDuty alerting, participate in on-call rotations, and lead post-incident reviews (RCA).

Security, DR & Operational Excellence

• Implement security best practices (branch protection, GitHub Secrets, GPG-signed commits, RBAC) and maintain audit compliance.
• Design automated backup/rollback strategies (RTO <15 min, RPO <5 min, 30-day retention) and conduct regular DR drills.
• Optimize deployments (30 min → <5 min), improve storage efficiency, maintain documentation, and mentor junior engineers.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in CS, Engineering, IT, or related field (or equivalent experience)
• 7+ years in DevOps, Infrastructure Automation, SRE, or Platform Engineering, DevOps/SRE experience with deep, production-level expertise in Azure, AKS, ArgoCD, and GitHub Actions.
• Proven expertise building enterprise-scale CI/CD pipelines
• Strong scripting skills (PowerShell, Python, Bash, Groovy)
• Experience with Ansible, Puppet, or Chef
• Hands-on expertise with GitHub Actions, Windows Server, MSSQL, Azure, AWS, Docker, and Kubernetes
• Solid knowledge of monitoring/observability/logging platforms
• Experience integrating DevOps tools with Jira, Slack, and PagerDuty
• Understanding of database deployment automation and release management
• Experience supporting high-availability production environments
• Strong troubleshooting, analytical, and stakeholder management skills