Description : DevOps Engineer Azure (6 to 8 Years Experience)

Location : Kochi, India

Company : Softobiz Technologies

Department : Cloud, DevOps & Platform Engineering

Role Type : Full-time

Role Overview :

Softobiz is seeking an experienced Azure DevOps Engineer (68 years) to join our high-performance platform engineering team in Kochi.

The ideal candidate will have deep hands-on expertise in Azure cloud services, Terraform, CI/CD pipelines, container orchestration, network security, monitoring, and zero-trust best practices.

You will support enterprise digital transformation programs (e.g., ERP implementations, multi-tenant web platforms, AI workloads, .NET/Node/React applications) across global customers including Sydney Markets Limited, Oroton, Equalis Group, FirstPath, and Softobiz product initiatives.

Key Responsibilities :

Azure Infrastructure Engineering :

- Design, deploy, and manage cloud infrastructure using Azure Landing Zone principles.

Build production-grade architectures involving :

- Azure App Services / Container Apps / AKS

- Azure SQL, MySQL Flexible Server

- Azure Storage & Private Endpoints

- Azure API Management (APIM)

- Application Gateway + WAF

- Azure Key Vault (Dapr or managed identity integration)

- Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, Defender for Cloud

- VNETs, NSGs, Private DNS, Firewall

- Drive end-to-end environment provisioning across Dev/Test/UAT/Prod, aligning with customer naming conventions and compliance.

CI/CD & Automation :

- Implement and maintain CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps or GitHub Actions.

- Automate application deployment for .NET Core, Node.js, React, Next.js, Python services.

Apply best practices for :

- Build versioning, artifact management, release gates

- IaC-driven environment promotion

- Blue/Green or Rolling deployments

- Secrets management via Key Vault + managed identity

Infrastructure as Code (IaC) Terraform :

- Author, modularize, and optimize Terraform configurations for reusable infrastructure setups.

- Implement state management with remote backends and workspaces.

- Enforce coding standards, tagging policies, and cost-controlled resource definitions.

Security, Governance & Compliance :

- You Will Ensure Infrastructure Adheres To Enterprise-grade Security Controls.

- Cloud Security Best Practices.

Enforce Zero Trust principles :

- No secrets in code

- Use Managed Identities everywhere

- Role-based access control (RBAC) with least privilege

- Configure WAF policies, IP restrictions, NSGs, and conditional access.

- Implement secure patterns for :

- Key rotation using Key Vault

- Private endpoints instead of public exposure

- Blueprint-compliant naming, tagging & cost governance

- Ensure regulatory compliance (SOC2, ISO27001, GDPR where applicable).

Observability & Reliability :

- Implement end-to-end monitoring using Azure Monitor, App Insights, Log Analytics, and Prometheus/Grafana (if container workloads).

Set up :

- Alerts, dashboards, SLOs/SLIs, error budgets

- Distributed tracing for microservices

- Cost optimization dashboards

Containers, Microservices & Orchestration :

- Manage and deploy microservices using :

- Azure Container Apps

- Docker

- Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)

- Dapr sidecar integrations (desirable)

- Optimize container images, orchestrate workloads, and implement CI/CD for containers.

Collaboration & Delivery :

- Work closely with project delivery teams, solution architects, and developers.

- Participate in architectural reviews and ensure deployments follow approved patterns.

- Support production releases, incident response, root-cause analysis, and performance tuning.

- Mentor junior DevOps engineers in the Kochi team.

Required Skills & Experience :

Core Technical Skills :

- 6 to 8 years of hands-on Azure DevOps experience.

Strong proficiency in :

- Terraform (mandatory)

- GitHub Actions / Azure DevOps Pipelines

- Azure Networking, VNETs, NSGs, Firewall

- Azure Kubernetes (AKS) or Container Apps

- Application Gateway + WAF

- Azure SQL / MySQL / Redis / Storage

- API Management

- Azure Monitor, Log Analytics

- Experience implementing Managed Identity + Key Vault for secure application access.

Security Skills :

- Azure Defender configuration.

- Azure Policies & Governance.

- Hardening of virtual networks, endpoints, identity, and workloads.

- Secretless pipelines & shift-left security practices.

- Familiarity with OWASP, NIST, CIS Benchmarks.

Soft Skills :

- Strong troubleshooting & analytical thinking.

- Clear verbal/written communication with global stakeholders.

- Ability to manage multiple environments & deadlines.

- Ownership mindset & proactive risk escalation.

Nice-to-Have Skills :

Experience with :