Description

Job Description

Primary Responsibilities:

In this role as DevOps – Technical Lead, you will be responsible for designing, implementing, and operating enterprise-grade DevOps and cloud platforms across Azure. You will own CI/CD pipelines, release governance, environment automation, and operational excellence, while working with globally distributed teams including developers, QA, security, SRE, and infrastructure teams.

You will play a key role in standardizing DevOps practices, enabling application modernization, and ensuring production readiness for business-critical systems.

Specific Assignments:

• Lead the design, implementation, and governance of CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps across multiple applications and environments.
• Define and enforce DevOps standards for source control, branching strategies, artifact management, and release promotions.
• Drive Infrastructure as Code (IaC) adoption using Terraform for consistent and compliant environment provisioning.
• Own release management, deployment planning, and zero-downtime deployment strategies (Blue Green, rolling deployments).
• Automate environment setup, scaling, and teardown, including scripting for daily operational activities.
• Manage and maintain performance and non-production environments to support performance, soak, and resilience testing.
• Collaborate closely with Group Infrastructure and Security teams to ensure platform setup meets program, compliance, and governance requirements.
• Monitor platform health, deployment success, availability, and performance KPIs, and take corrective actions proactively.
• Provide hands-on technical guidance, design reviews, and mentoring to DevOps engineers and development teams.
• Support modernization programs, including migration of legacy .NET applications to modern cloud-native architectures.
• Document DevOps frameworks, pipeline templates, operational runbooks, and best practices.

 
Skills required:

• Strong hands-on experience with Azure DevOps, CI/CD pipeline design, and release orchestration.
• Proven expertise in Azure Cloud services, including App Services, AKS, Azure Functions, Application Gateway, APIM, Azure Firewall, and Storage.
• Solid experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform).
• Strong understanding of source control management, branching strategies, and artifact repositories (NuGet).
• Experience with containerization and orchestration using Docker and Kubernetes (AKS).
• Strong scripting skills using PowerShell and/or Python for automation.
• Experience managing multi-region and multi-subscription Azure environments.
• Ability to work effectively with global stakeholders across geographies.

 

Preferred Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or equivalent.
• Minimum 10–14 years of IT experience, with at least 7 years in DevOps / Platform Engineering roles.
• Experience supporting regulated or enterprise-scale platforms.
• Exposure to performance engineering, security hardening, and operational excellence frameworks.
• Experience working with globally distributed teams, especially US and Europe.

 Tech Stack:

• CI/CD & DevOps: Azure DevOps (Pipelines, Repos, Artifacts)
• Cloud Platform: Azure (App Services, AKS, Azure Functions, Application Gateway, APIM, Azure Firewall, Storage, etc)
• Languages & Scripting: PowerShell, Python
• Application Stack: Angular 12+, React, .NET Core, Java / Spring Boot, .NET Framework, ASP.NET MVC/WebForms, WCF
• Databases: SQL Server, MongoDB
• Infrastructure as Code: Bicep, Terraform
• Tools: Azure Monitor, Application Insights, Security and Compliance tools

Additional Information

Personal Skills:

• Customer-service oriented with a problem-solving attitude;
• Strong attention to detail and accuracy is essential;
• Entrepreneurial thinking and flexibility to change;
• Very good English communication skills (concise writing and orally convincing);
• Structured and clear writing skills;
• Proven ability to solve complex business problems using analytical reasoning;
• Demonstrated positive attitude, self-motivated, team player.

Required Qualifications:

• MCA or Bachelors in Engineering, Computer Science or equivalent

Key Skills

Education

Any Graduate