Senior DevOps Engineer

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) certifications

Roles 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