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