RQ11740 - DevOPS/Cloud Engineer - Senior

Description:

Leads the automation, configuration, deployment, monitoring, and operational enablement of enterprise platform environments and services in Microsoft Azure. The role establishes and maintains CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure as code, environment configuration, release automation, observability, security controls, secrets management, and operational tooling needed to support reliable delivery across development, testing, staging, and production. Working with developers, architects, testers, cybersecurity specialists, and operational teams, the Senior DevOps Engineer improves deployment consistency, reduces manual effort, strengthens traceability, and supports secure and repeatable releases. The role also applies senior software-development experience to develop new tools, scripts, utilities, and platform services, and to assist developers with troubleshooting application, build, integration, pipeline, and deployment issues. The role monitors platform health, supports incident response and recovery, and develops runbooks and knowledge-transfer materials that improve the scalability, resilience, supportability, and long-term sustainability of the enterprise platform.

Experience:

• Experience designing and operating DevOps practices for large cloud-based enterprise applications.
  
• Experience with Microsoft Azure infrastructure, platform services, networking, identity, security, and monitoring.
  
• Experience developing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines for application, integration, infrastructure, and database changes.
  
• Experience with infrastructure as code, configuration management, containerization, and deployment automation.
  
• Experience supporting microservices, APIs, distributed applications, and multiple delivery environments.
  
• Experience developing software, scripts, utilities, APIs, or internal tools using one or more modern programming languages.
  
• Experience applying software-development practices such as source control, code review, unit testing, debugging, refactoring, and technical documentation.
  
• Experience assisting developers with troubleshooting application code, dependencies, builds, automated tests, integrations, pipelines, and deployments.
  
• Experience implementing logging, monitoring, alerting, dashboards, tracing, and operational health checks.
  
• Experience managing secrets, certificates, environment configuration, access controls, and secure deployment practices.
  
• Experience supporting release management, environment readiness, rollback, disaster recovery, and production stabilization.
  
• Experience troubleshooting complex application, deployment, infrastructure, performance, availability, and integration issues.
  
• Experience collaborating with developers, architects, security specialists, testers, and operations teams.
  

General Skills / Duties:

• Design, build, and maintain CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation for enterprise platform applications.
  
• Provision and configure cloud infrastructure and platform services using approved automation practices.
  
• Develop and maintain tools, scripts, utilities, APIs, reusable automation, and supporting platform components that improve developer productivity and operational efficiency.
  
• Contribute production-quality code where required, including unit tests, debugging, code reviews, documentation, and ongoing maintenance.
  
• Assist development teams with troubleshooting application code, dependencies, build failures, automated tests, integrations, environment configuration, pipelines, and deployment issues.
  
• Manage development, testing, staging, and production environments.
  
• Implement monitoring, logging, alerting, dashboards, and operational reporting.
  
• Support secure configuration, secrets management, vulnerability remediation, and compliance controls.
  
• Coordinate releases, environment readiness, deployment validation, rollback, and stabilization.
  
• Improve reliability, scalability, recoverability, developer experience, and operational efficiency.
  
• Diagnose and resolve application, infrastructure, pipeline, deployment, and production issues.
  
• Maintain source code, runbooks, configuration records, technical documentation, and knowledge-transfer materials.
  

Requirements

Experience and Skill Set Requirements:

Must Haves:

• Experience designing CI/CD pipelines, deployment automation, and infrastructure as code.
  
• Experience supporting multiple environments and complex release processes.
  
• Experience developing tools, scripts, utilities, APIs, or automation using modern programming languages and standard software-development practices.
  
• Experience with Azure infrastructure, platform services, networking, identity, monitoring, and security.
  
• Experience operating and supporting microservices, APIs, distributed applications, and cloud-based development tools.
  

Skill Set Requirements:

DevOps and Automation Experience:

• Experience designing CI/CD pipelines, deployment automation, and infrastructure as code.
  
• Experience supporting multiple environments and complex release processes.
  
• Experience developing tools, scripts, utilities, APIs, or automation using modern programming languages and standard software-development practices.
  
• Experience using source control, code review, unit testing, debugging, and documentation to deliver maintainable operational tooling.
  

Microsoft Azure and Cloud Operations:

• Experience with Azure infrastructure, platform services, networking, identity, monitoring, and security.
  
• Experience operating and supporting microservices, APIs, distributed applications, and cloud-based development tools.
  
• Experience helping developers diagnose and resolve application, integration, build, test, pipeline, environment, and deployment problems.
  

Reliability, Security, and Monitoring:

• Experience with observability, incident response, resiliency, backup, recovery, and secure configuration.
  

Communication and Collaboration:

• Strong troubleshooting, documentation, and problem-solving skills.
  
• Ability to coordinate effectively with delivery, security, and operations teams.