Engineer Senior - DevOps

Overview

Position

Engineer Senior - DevOps (10+ years of SRE/DevOps Engineer Experience)The Senior DevOps Engineer owns and governs the Azure DevOps platform, enabling scalable, secure, and reliable CI/CD practices across projects. The role focuses on defining standards, driving best practices, mentoring teams, and providing advanced support for automation and deployments. Working closely with US-based stakeholders, DevInfra, QA, and Security, the engineer ensures consistent delivery, compliance, and production stability across environments.

Note

Professionals with strong operational experience in the Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) ecosystem, paired with the foundational and development skills validated by the Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) / Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD) certificationsRoles and Responsibilities:

• Administer and maintain the Azure DevOps platform, ensuring availability, performance, and scalability
• Define and enforce governance policies for project structure, branching strategies, permissions, and release pipelines
• Establish and maintain platform-wide standards for CI/CD, infrastructure as code, and artifact management.
• Develop and promote best practices for DevOps workflows, including branching, versioning, testing, and deployment.
• Provide onboarding, training, and mentorship to engineering teams on Azure DevOps usage and project setup.
• Collaborate with development and infrastructure teams to align DevOps practices with organizational goals
• Implement and manage access controls, audit logging, and compliance requirements across the DevOps platform
• Ensure secure handling of secrets, credentials, and sensitive data within pipelines and repositories
• Support production readiness by enforcing quality gates, approvals, and validation steps
• Support and govern infrastructure as code practices using tools such as Terraform, Git, Kubernetes, Argo, YAML templates, etc.
• Integrate observability tools (e.g., Azure Monitor, Grafana, Prometheus) into DevOps workflows for proactive monitoring and alerting
• Manage and optimize build and release pipelines, container strategies, and deployment automation using AI/ML
• Serve as a team lead to offshore Associates with an indirect reporting relationship, providing mentorship, coaching and guidance and daily oversight of workload, priorities and team vision and alignment
• Partner with architects and engineering leads to align DevOps platform capabilities with delivery roadmaps
• Stay current with Azure DevOps updates, industry trends, and emerging technologies to continuously improve platform capabilities
• Provide advanced troubleshooting and support for complex build, deployment, and automation issues
• Support release activities, hotfixes, and production deployments in coordination with global teams
• Contribute to process documentation, standards, and continuous improvement initiatives

Qualification, Skills, Experience and Competencies Required

• Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, or related field
• 10+ years of proven experience as an SRE/DevOps Engineer with a focus on DevOps or related experience
• Proven experience designing and implementing CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure as code
• Strong understanding of Azure services, cloud architecture, and security best practices
• AZ-400 Certification (Azure DevOps Engineer Expert) strongly preferred

Familiarity with the following

Microsoft Power Platform suite (including Power Apps, Power Automate, and PowerBI), C# developed applications, Docker, LogicApps, Azure DevOps YAML Pipelines, PowerShell experience is preferred