DevOps Engineer

Overview

We are looking for a highly skilled Azure DevOps Engineer to design, standardize, and optimize our CI/CD pipelines and automation workflows. The ideal candidate will play a key role in strengthening the engineering delivery process through scalable pipelines, robust environment provisioning, and continuous security and quality integration.

Key Responsibilities

• Pipeline Engineering: Design, optimize, and maintain multi-stage YAML pipelines in Azure DevOps with reusable templates, approvals, and gating strategies.
• Standardization: Define and implement shared build/test/release templates across services to reduce duplication and improve maintainability.
• Configuration Management: Extend and maintain Ansible playbooks to support consistent configuration and deployment workflows.
• Environment Provisioning: Automate provisioning and maintenance of development, test, QA, and production environments.
• Quality & Reliability: Implement health checks, synthetic tests, and release validation steps in CI/CD.
• Security Integration: Embed SAST, dependency scanning, container security, and secret detection tools directly into the pipelines.
• Secret Management: Manage and rotate credentials/secrets via Azure Key Vault and Ansible Vault, enforcing least-privilege access.
• Collaboration: Partner with developers to shift left on quality, enabling self-service delivery and faster feedback loops.
• Operational Readiness: Document runbooks, DR playbooks, and operational procedures for reliable system operations.
• Continuous Improvement: Propose and drive a pipeline modernization roadmap, focusing on build acceleration, artifact management, and release governance.

Minimum Qualifications

• Strong hands-on experience with Azure DevOps (Repos, Pipelines YAML, Artifacts).
• Proven proficiency with Ansible (idempotent roles, handlers, dynamic vars, vault).
• Solid understanding of the .NET build and release process (NuGet, dependency management, test runners).
• Experience implementing version control strategies (branching, PR policies, GitFlow).
• Working knowledge of networking, TLS/cert management, and environment connectivity.
• Strong scripting skills in PowerShell, Bash, or Python for automation tasks.
• Familiarity with monitoring and logging tools (App Insights, ELK, Prometheus/Grafana).
• Basic understanding of SQL Server administration and configuration.
• Knowledge of the Azure Cloud ecosystem (ARM, Bicep, Terraform) is a plus.

Preferred Attributes

• Strong sense of ownership and continuous improvement mindset.
• Ability to work cross-functionally with development, QA, and security teams.
• Experience in modern DevOps best practices (GitOps, Infrastructure as Code, automated compliance).
• Excellent communication skills and documentation discipline.