Job Description – Senior Azure Infrastructure Engineer
Position: Senior Azure Infrastructure Engineer
Location: Chennai, India
Work Mode: Remote; candidates may be required to work from the Chennai office depending on project requirements
Technology / Platform: Microsoft Azure
Business Unit: Product Engineering
Role Overview
We are looking for an experienced Senior Azure Infrastructure Engineer to design, architect, implement, and manage secure, scalable, and highly available cloud infrastructure solutions on Microsoft Azure.
The ideal candidate should possess strong expertise in Azure infrastructure, cloud-native application platforms, networking, security, containerisation, infrastructure as code, and DevOps practices.
Key Responsibilities
- Design and implement Azure solutions that deliver high levels of performance, security, scalability, maintainability, reliability, and reusability.
- Architect cloud solutions aligned with business and IT requirements while ensuring the technical viability of new projects and successful production deployments.
- Collaborate with application development, infrastructure, security, networking, and DevOps teams to deliver end-to-end Azure solutions.
- Design and manage Windows and Linux Infrastructure-as-a-Service environments.
- Develop solutions involving Azure networking, storage, security, monitoring, management, backup, disaster recovery, and business continuity.
- Implement cloud-native and Platform-as-a-Service solutions using Azure App Service, Azure Functions, API Management, serverless technologies, and microservices frameworks.
- Design, deploy, and manage containerised applications using Kubernetes, Azure Kubernetes Service, Cloud Foundry, or similar container orchestration platforms.
- Build and maintain infrastructure using Infrastructure-as-Code tools and automation frameworks.
- Establish and manage CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps, GitHub, and related DevOps toolchains.
- Ensure cloud environments comply with organisational security, governance, operational, and architectural standards.
- Identify opportunities to optimise cloud infrastructure performance, availability, security, and cost.
Required Skills and Experience
- Strong domain expertise in Microsoft Azure infrastructure solutions.
- Extensive experience with Windows and Linux IaaS environments.
- Hands-on knowledge of Azure networking, security, management, storage, monitoring, backup, and disaster recovery solutions.
- Experience working with SAP workloads, BCDR solutions, open-source technologies, containers, and Infrastructure-as-Code tools.
- Strong experience with Azure App Service, Azure Functions, serverless architecture, API Management, and cloud-native application platforms.
- Experience designing scalable architectures using microservices and container-based frameworks.
- Hands-on experience with Kubernetes, Azure Kubernetes Service, Cloud Foundry, or equivalent container orchestration technologies.
- Strong understanding of DevOps practices and CI/CD implementation.
- Experience with Azure DevOps, GitHub, Chef, Puppet, or similar automation and configuration-management tools.
- Ability to evaluate business requirements and translate them into secure and scalable cloud architecture.
- Strong troubleshooting, analytical, communication, and stakeholder-management skills.
Pay: ₹2,000,000.00 - ₹2,500,000.00 per year
Experience:
- Azure: 6 years (Preferred)
Work Location: Hybrid remote in Chennai, Tamil Nadu (Chennai, Chennai District)
