Azure DevOps Lead

Mandatory skills:

• Experience: 8+ years in a DevOps/SRE role, ideally in Azure Cloud environments and cloud-native architectures such as microservices.
• Observability Expertise: Hands-on experience with observability tools such as Azure Monitor, OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Jaeger, Kiali, and Grafana stack.
• Containerization: Strong knowledge of container orchestration tools like Kubernetes, Helm, and Docker.
• Scripting & Automation: Proficiency in scripting languages (e.g., PowerShell, Python, Go, Bash) for automating tasks and workflows.
• Problem Solving: Proven ability to independently debug and resolve complex issues.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead Observability Efforts: Design, set up and maintain comprehensive observability solutions (logs, traces, metrics and dashboarding/visualization) across nonprod and prod environments
• Platform Resiliency: Ensure the resilience of our platform by proactively monitoring, detecting, and resolving potential issues before they impact services.
• Cost optimization: Implement strategies to optimize costs in our Azure cloud environment, identifying areas for improvement.
• Cross-Team Collaboration: Work closely with development and platform engineering teams to align on goals and ensure smooth, scalable operations.
• Automation and Tools Development: Develop and implement internal tools and bots to automate processes and improve efficiency across the organization.

Nice to have:

• Infrastructure-as-Code: Experience with Terraform, Terragrunt, and other IaC tools.
• Service Mesh Knowledge: Familiarity with Istio and related service mesh technologies.
• Azure Cloud Services: Working knowledge of Azure services such as FuncApps, Container Apps, Logic Apps, Data Factory, Event Hubs, and Event Grid, with a strong understanding of best practices.
• CI/CD Pipelines: Experience configuring and maintaining CI/CD pipelines, preferably with Azure DevOps.