Senior Azure DevOps Engineer

We are looking for experienced DevOps Engineers to build, maintain, and optimise the CI/CD

pipelines, infrastructure automation, and platform operations for a VDI offering running across

hybrid cloud and on-premises environments. The role has a strong emphasis on Kubernetes

based container orchestration.

Key Responsibilities

CI/CD Pipeline Development

• Design, build, and maintain CI/CD pipelines for VDI platform components — OS images,

backend services, and client applications

• Manage pipeline tooling — Jenkins, GitLab CI, GitHub Actions, or Azure DevOps Pipelines

• Implement automated build, test, and deployment workflows for Linux and Windows OS

image pipelines

• Maintain pipeline-as-code practices — version controlled, reproducible, and environment

agnostic pipelines

Infrastructure as Code (IaaC)

• Write and maintain Terraform configurations for provisioning cloud (AWS/Azure/GCP) and

on-prem VDI infrastructure

• Manage Terraform state, modules, workspaces, and remote backends for multi-environment

deployments

• Implement infrastructure change management processes — plan, review, and apply

workflows with approvals

• Use Ansible or DSC for configuration management and OS-level provisioning across VDI

endpoints

Kubernetes & Container Orchestration

• Deploy, manage, and operate Kubernetes clusters (AKS/EKS/GKE and self-managed) for

VDI microservices

• Design and maintain multi-node, multi-namespace Kubernetes architectures for high

availability and workload isolation

• Manage Helm charts — chart development, versioning, value overrides, and repository

management

• Implement Kubernetes RBAC — role bindings, service accounts, and namespace-level

access controls

• Configure and manage Kubernetes networking — CNI plugins (Calico, Flannel, Cilium),

ingress controllers (NGINX, Traefik)

• Set up and manage Kubernetes storage — persistent volumes, storage classes, and

dynamic provisioning

• Implement Kubernetes autoscaling — HPA, VPA, and cluster autoscaler for VDI workload

elasticity

• Implement GitOps workflows using ArgoCD or Flux for declarative Kubernetes deployments

• Enforce Kubernetes security hardening — Pod Security Standards, OPA/Gatekeeper

policies, and secrets encryption

• Implement service mesh (Istio or Linkerd) for inter-service mTLS, traffic management, and

observability

Cloud & Hybrid Infrastructure Management

• Manage and operate VDI infrastructure across cloud (AWS/Azure/GCP) and on-premises

data centres

• Maintain networking components — VPCs, subnets, security groups, load balancers, VPNs,

and SD-WAN connectivity

• Manage Azure-specific services — Azure Virtual Desktop, Azure Arc, Azure Monitor, and

Azure Policy

• Oversee on-prem hypervisor infrastructure — VMware vSphere, KVM, or Hyper-V clusters

supporting VDI workloads Monitoring, Observability & Incident Response

• Set up and maintain monitoring stacks — Prometheus, Grafana, ELK/EFK, Loki, or Azure

Monitor

• Implement Kubernetes-native monitoring — kube-state-metrics, metrics-server, and custom

resource dashboards

• Define SLOs/SLAs and alerting rules for critical VDI infrastructure and Kubernetes workloads

• Participate in on-call rotations and lead incident response and post-mortem processes

Security & Compliance (DevSecOps)

• Implement DevSecOps practices — SAST/DAST tooling, container scanning (Trivy, Snyk),

and secrets management

• Manage secrets using HashiCorp Vault, AWS Secrets Manager, or Azure Key Vault

• Enforce CIS Benchmark compliance and Kubernetes security baselines across environments

• Support ISO 27001 and SOC 2 audit requirements through infrastructure controls

Required Skills & Qualifications

• 7+ years of hands-on DevOps or platform engineering experience

• Strong Kubernetes expertise — cluster administration, Helm, RBAC, networking

(CNI/ingress), storage, autoscaling, and security hardening

• Hands-on experience with managed Kubernetes services — AKS, EKS, or GKE in

production environments

• Strong proficiency in Terraform — infrastructure provisioning, module development, and

multi-environment state management

• Hands-on experience with CI/CD tools — Jenkins, GitLab CI, GitHub Actions, or Azure

DevOps Pipelines

• Solid experience with Docker — container builds, multi-stage Dockerfiles, image

optimisation, and registry management

• Experience managing hybrid infrastructure — cloud (AWS/Azure/GCP) and on-premises

environments

• Hands-on experience with Microsoft Azure — Azure networking, AKS, Azure Monitor, Azure

Policy, and Azure DevOps

• Proficiency in scripting — Python, Bash, and/or PowerShell

• Working knowledge of Ansible or equivalent configuration management tooling

• B.Tech/M.Tech in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field

Preferred Certifications

• CKA — Certified Kubernetes Administrator (highly recommended)

• CKAD — Certified Kubernetes Application Developer

• CKS — Certified Kubernetes Security Specialist

• AZ-400 — Microsoft Azure DevOps Engineer Expert

• AZ-104 — Microsoft Azure Administrator Associate

• AZ-305 — Microsoft Azure Solutions Architect Expert

• AWS Certified DevOps Engineer Professional

• GCP Professional DevOps Engineer

Preferred Skills

• Experience with GitOps workflows — ArgoCD or Flux for Kubernetes deployments

• Experience with service mesh — Istio or Linkerd for inter-service communication and mTLS

• Familiarity with OPA/Gatekeeper for Kubernetes policy enforcement

• Knowledge of DevSecOps — pipeline security scanning, IaaC security tools (tfsec, Checkov)

• Experience with Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD) or VDI platform infrastructure