Job title: Junior Azure DevOps SRE Engineer
Shift hours : Night Shift (9:00 PM – 6:00 AM IST)
Working days: Monday to Friday. Weekends and India-observed holidays off.
Why this shift: The engagement supports the customer's US (EST/CST) working hours.
Work location: Chennai
Experience: 1–2 years of relevant experience.
Role Summary:
We are hiring Junior Azure DevOps SRE Engineers to join a dedicated weekday support engagement for a large enterprise customer, working embedded alongside the customer's project engineering team. You will own day-to-day CI/CD pipeline maintenance, support their release cadence end to end, and make the infrastructure and configuration changes needed to move a release from the lowest environment through to production. You will also provide escalation-tier support on production issues — engaged after the customer's front-line support, alongside their engineering team.
This is a structured role for an engineer early in their DevOps/SRE career. You will start with a full month of knowledge transfer, then move through shadowing, guided execution, and independent ownership over the first year — with a senior Azure DevOps SRE Engineer on the engagement and DevOps practice behind you.
Key Responsibilities
- CI/CD Pipeline Maintenance & Ownership
- Release Engineering Support
- Escalation-Tier Production Support
- Delivery Discipline
Required Skills & Experience:
● 1–2 years of hands-on experience in DevOps, cloud operations, build/release engineering, or a similar engineering role.
● Working knowledge of Microsoft Azure — compute, storage, resource groups, and the portal/CLI. You should be comfortable navigating a live Azure subscription.
● Exposure to CI/CD pipelines — has worked with GitHub Actions, Azure Pipelines, Jenkins, or GitLab CI, and can read and modify pipeline YAML.
● Git fundamentals — branching, pull requests, merge conflict resolution, and release tagging.
● Scripting ability in PowerShell, Bash, or Python — enough to automate a routine task end to end.
● Linux and Windows Server basics — navigating a server, checking services, reading logs, and basic troubleshooting.
● Awareness of containers — Docker concepts and what Kubernetes/AKS does, even if production experience is limited.
● Ability to read logs and monitoring data to investigate a failure, and the instinct to check evidence before guessing.
● Structured troubleshooting and clear escalation judgement — knowing when to dig in and when to pull in senior help.
● Clear written English — you will write status updates, issue analysis notes, and documentation read by the customer's engineering team.
● Willingness and ability to work the 9:00 PM – 6:00 AM IST shift from our Chennai office on a sustained basis, Monday to Friday.
Good to Have
Familiarity with the tooling used on this engagement is an advantage. Equivalent experience on comparable platforms is acceptable — we care that you have worked with tooling of this shape, not that you have used these exact products.
● GitHub Actions as the delivery pipeline — or equivalent (Azure Pipelines, GitLab CI, Jenkins).
● Azure Monitor and Application Insights for platform and application telemetry — or equivalent monitoring/APM tooling.
● ELK stack (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana) for log search and analysis — or equivalent (Splunk, Grafana Loki, Azure Log Analytics).
● JIRA for task and incident tracking — or equivalent (Azure Boards, ServiceNow).
● Confluence for runbooks and documentation — or equivalent.
● Terraform or any Infrastructure as Code exposure — even sandbox or coursework level.
● Basic understanding of Azure networking and identity (VNet/NSG, Entra ID) and secrets handling via Key Vault.
● Any prior experience working directly with an overseas customer team or on a night-shift support engagement.
Certifications
● AZ-900: Azure Fundamentals — expected at or shortly after joining.
● AZ-104: Azure Administrator Associate — preferred, or to be completed during the engagement with our support.
● AZ-400: Designing and Implementing Microsoft DevOps Solutions — a growth target, not an entry requirement.
Pay: ₹400,000.00 - ₹600,000.00 per year
Work Location: In person
