Senior Cloud Platform Engineer — Azure Developer (DevOps + SysOps)
Agivant Technologies India Private Limited Pune City Subdistrict, Maharashtra, India
IT Services and IT Consulting · 51-200 employees
About the role
Design and deploy cloud infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code while managing CI/CD pipelines and configuration management. Own day-to-day operations including monitoring, incident response, security patching, and ensuring platform resilience.
What they look for
Requirements
Requires over 8 years of experience in infrastructure and DevOps with at least 4 years of hands-on Azure production experience. Candidates must possess strong skills in IaC, Ansible, Azure networking, and scripting languages like Python or PowerShell.
Full description
Key Responsibilities
- Design and deploy infrastructure as code (Bicep/Terraform) — networking, APIM, Function hosting, SQL, Key Vault, monitoring
- Build Ansible playbooks/roles for configuration management, agent rollout, OS baselines and patching
- Build multi-stage CI/CD pipelines (Azure DevOps or GitHub Actions) with approval gates and tested rollback
- Automate secret rotation, scaling, provisioning/teardown, and routine operations
- Own day-2 operations: monitoring, incident response, patching, backups, capacity and cost review
- Design and prove platform resilience: zone redundancy, retry/throttling, backup/restore drills, defined RTO/RPO
- Own Azure API Management, Azure Functions hosting, Azure SQL, Key Vault, App Insights/Log Analytics, Defender for Cloud, and private networking
Requirements
Must-Have Experience
- 8+ years in infrastructure/DevOps/cloud platform engineering, 4+ years hands-on Azure in production
- Strong IaC practice (Bicep and/or Terraform) at module level
- Production Ansible experience (playbooks, roles, secrets integration)
- End-to-end CI/CD pipeline ownership (Azure DevOps or GitHub Actions)
- Strong Azure networking (VNets, NSGs, Private Endpoints, NAT Gateway, Front Door/App Gateway with WAF)
- Hands-on, as-code provisioning of APIM, Azure Functions, Azure SQL, Key Vault
- Managed Identity, RBAC, Key Vault lifecycle — no static credentials
- Observability: Application Insights, Log Analytics, KQL, actionable alerting
- Resilience/DR design and execution (backup, PITR, failover drills)
- Day-2 operations ownership against SLAs/SLOs
- Scripting in Python, PowerShell, or Bash
- Ability to work independently to production without close Azure supervision
Highly Desirable
- PCI DSS environment experience; tokenization-based scope reduction
- Microsoft Defender for Cloud (secure score, compliance dashboards)
- Payment gateway (CyberSource, PayPal) and tax engine (Ceretax, Avalara) integrations
- Order management/e-commerce fulfilment integrations; SendGrid or similar
- Legacy PHP/WooCommerce to cloud-native migration background
- Azure certification: AZ-204, AZ-305, or AZ-500
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