Azure DevOps Engineer

We are looking for an experienced Senior Azure Dev Ops Engineer with 8–10 years of overall IT/Dev Ops experience and strong hands‑on expertise in Microsoft Azure, Kubernetes, Microservices, Linux, Azure Dev Ops CI/CD, Docker, and Oracle Web Logic.

The candidate will be responsible for managing and supporting highly available digital application environments hosted on Azure, including containerized microservices running on Kubernetes and Web Logic‑based enterprise applications.

The role requires strong production troubleshooting capability, CI/CD automation experience, Kubernetes administration, application deployment expertise, monitoring, performance analysis, and close collaboration with development, infrastructure, application support, security, and architecture teams.

• Design, implement, maintain, and support CI/CD pipelines using Azure Dev Ops for automated build, testing, deployment, and release management.
• Manage production and non‑production Kubernetes environments hosted on Microsoft Azure.
• Deploy, configure, operate, troubleshoot, and optimize containerized microservices running on Kubernetes.
• Manage Docker container images, registries, image versioning, deployment strategies, and container lifecycle management.
• Support and manage Oracle Web Logic environments hosted on Azure, including application deployments, configuration, troubleshooting, performance monitoring, JVM‑related issues, and production support.
• Support end‑to‑end deployments across Development, SIT, UAT, Pre‑Production, and Production environments.
• Implement automated deployment processes and minimize manual intervention in software releases.
• Build and maintain deployment pipelines with proper approval workflows, environment controls, rollback mechanisms, and release governance.
• Troubleshoot complex production issues related to Kubernetes, containers, networking, Linux, microservices, Web Logic, Azure infrastructure, application connectivity, and deployment pipelines.
• Perform Kubernetes troubleshooting covering Pods, Deployments, Replica Sets, Services, Ingress, Config Maps, Secrets, persistent storage, resource utilization, and cluster‑level issues.
• Analyze application and infrastructure logs to identify root causes of production incidents.
• Monitor application and infrastructure health throughout the application lifecycle and proactively identify performance degradation, capacity issues, failures, and potential risks.
• Work closely with development teams to ensure applications are designed and deployed according to cloud‑native and Dev Ops best practices.
• Implement and maintain Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform, Bicep, ARM Templates, or similar technologies.
• Manage application configuration and environment‑specific parameters securely across different environments.
• Support secure management of credentials, certificates, secrets, service connections, and access permissions.
• Implement deployment strategies such as Rolling Deployment, Blue/Green Deployment, and Canary Deployment, where applicable.
• Manage Kubernetes package deployments using Helm and related deployment tooling.
• Support Azure services required by digital applications, including compute, networking, storage, load balancing, monitoring, and container services.
• Work with Azure networking components such as VNets, subnets, load balancers, Application Gateway, private endpoints, DNS, firewalls, and connectivity between application components.
• Support application availability, scalability, resilience, and performance requirements.
• Participate in major incident troubleshooting and production recovery activities.
• Perform Root Cause Analysis for deployment, infrastructure, Kubernetes, and application platform incidents and implement preventative…