Optum is hiring Azure Cloud Engineer at Hyderabad location who can join us on short notice.

Primary Skills : Build and maintain production-grade CI/CD pipelines, Azure Cloud, Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, Github Actions - CICD, Github Copilot, Monitoring tools such as Grafana, Splunk etc.

Experience : 7 to 10 yrs

Notice period : Immediate to 45 days

Location : Hyderabad

Primary Responsibilities :

- Manage and evolve Azure infrastructure using Terraform

- Deploy, scale, and troubleshoot workloads on AKS

- Improve deployment reliability and system performance

- Drive automation-first solutions across the stack

- Work on ADF and Databricks-based deployments

- Debug real-world production issues and improve system resilience

- Code & Platform Security Management

- Monitor the app performance, security issue, deployment etc.

Required Qualifications :

- Graduation is a must

- 6+ years of experience in Build and maintain production-grade CI/CD pipelines

- 5+ Experience in Azure Cloud

- Containers & Orchestration K8s & Docker

- Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD GitHub

- Practical usage of GitHub Copilot (or similar) for : IaC development, Pipeline automation, Debugging and scripting

- Ability to integrate AI into daily engineering workflows

- Azure Data Factory (ADF) - Integrated runtime (Self/Cloud) Hosted, DevOps, Maintenance

- Azure Databricks - cluster management, log and infra monitoring

- Grafana, Splunk and other monitoring tools

- Uses AI as a force to multiply your productivity, not just an assistant

- Engineering Expectations :

- Solid debugging skills across : CI/CD pipelines, Container builds, Kubernetes workloads, Azure Cloud

- Ability to : Design scalable Azure architectures, implement multi-environment deployment strategies, build reusable Terraform modules and maintainable pipelines

- Solid understanding of : Idempotency, Observability, Failure handling, Cost improvement FinOps

- Solid tech enthusiast with continuous learning attitude

- Automation-first problem solving approach

- Actively explores and adopts new tools and open to work on new areas