Senior DevOps Engineer; Microsoft Azure
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IT/Tech
Cloud Computing: Infrastructure & Operations, Azure, Cybersecurity
Job Description & How to Apply Below
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Bright Minds is seeking an experienced Senior Dev Ops Engineer (Microsoft Azure) to manage, secure, and optimize the client’s cloud infrastructure and digital platforms. The successful candidate will be responsible for designing and maintaining Azure environments, automating deployments, implementing security controls, and ensuring high availability, performance, and compliance across all systems. This role plays a critical part in supporting continuous delivery and operational excellence throughout the project lifecycle.
Design, provision and manage the website’s Azure environments (dev, staging, production) using infrastructure as code.
Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines for the web and mobile frontends, APIs and CMS.
Apply cybersecurity and data-protection best practices: identity and access, secrets management, WAF, network security, encryption and backups.
Set up monitoring, logging and alerting, and respond to incidents and outages.
Manage domains, SSL certificates, CDN and caching for performance and availability.
Support secure integrations with external systems (API gateways, private endpoints, service connections).
Control cloud cost and run regular security and compliance reviews.
Document the infrastructure, runbooks and disaster-recovery steps and hand them over to the client’s team.
5 years in Dev Ops or cloud engineering, with strong hands-on Microsoft Azure experience.
Azure services:
App Service, Static Web Apps, Front Door/CDN, Key Vault, Azure SQL or Cosmos DB, Monitor/Application Insights, Entra .Infrastructure as code with Terraform or Bicep/ARM.
CI/CD with Azure Dev Ops Pipelines or Git Hub Actions.
Containers and Docker;
Kubernetes (AKS) is a plus.Solid knowledge of cloud security and data-protection practices.
At least one delivered project for a client in Saudi Arabia.
Proficient in Arabic and English.
Microsoft certifications (AZ-104, AZ-400, AZ-500).
Experience with Saudi regulations: NCA Essential Cybersecurity Controls and the Personal Data Protection Law (PDPL), including data residency in Azure KSA regions.
Hosting enterprise CMS platforms on Azure.
Position Requirements
10+ Years work experience(If this job is in fact in your jurisdiction, then you may be using a Proxy or VPN to access this site, and to progress further, you should change your connectivity to another mobile device or PC).