Senior Cloud and DevOps Engineer - Azure Applications

Job summary

Own Azure environments and operational reliability for digital platforms, managing development, UAT, and production deployments, monitoring, security coordination, performance, costs, and recovery. Build CI/CD pipelines and maintain infrastructure as code for applications using Next.js, React, Node.js, .NET, and Strapi, with Azure services including App Service, Functions, Key Vault, Azure Monitor, and Application Insights.

Qualifications

• At least 5 years of cloud or DevOps engineering experience, including 3 years operating production applications on Azure.
• Strong experience with Azure App Service, Functions, Storage or Blob, Key Vault, Azure Monitor, and Application Insights; API Management and Service Bus experience preferred.
• Hands-on experience with Azure DevOps Pipelines or GitHub Actions, including secure deployment and rollback.
• Practical experience with Terraform or Bicep.
• Experience deploying and troubleshooting Node.js, Next.js, .NET, and headless CMS applications.
• Practical Docker experience; Kubernetes experience preferred where relevant.
• Proficiency in PowerShell, Bash, or Python for operational automation.
• Understanding of Microsoft Entra ID, managed identities, RBAC, DNS, TLS, private endpoints, and application connectivity.
• Experience supporting SQL Server and PostgreSQL deployment and connectivity, including backup and recovery coordination.
• Experience with incident diagnosis, root-cause analysis, monitoring, and recovery testing.
• Ability to coordinate developers, vendors, Technical Support, and security teams.

Responsibilities

• Configure and maintain development, UAT, and production environments for web applications, APIs, CMS, and supporting services.
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines for Next.js, React, Node.js, .NET, and Strapi applications.
• Maintain repeatable infrastructure configuration, version-controlled changes, and consistent environments.
• Implement deployment checks, approval controls, rollback procedures, and release traceability.
• Establish health checks, logs, dashboards, and actionable alerts; investigate production incidents.
• Configure application identities, access controls, certificates, and secrets with security teams.
• Assess scaling, resource utilization, and availability; implement agreed improvements.
• Monitor cloud expenditure, identify waste, and recommend capacity and configuration changes.
• Coordinate application and database backups, and validate restoration and recovery procedures.
• Maintain environment inventories, deployment guides, runbooks, and knowledge-transfer materials.

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