Senior Azure DevOps Engineer

Role overview

Core responsibilities

• Build and maintain Azure DevOps pipelines for automated builds, testing, deployment and release governance.
• Operate Azure Kubernetes environments, Docker containers, microservices and WebLogic applications.
• Troubleshoot production incidents across application, platform, networking and deployment layers; analyze logs and monitor performance.
• Implement Infrastructure as Code, secure environment configuration, and support Azure networking and application services.
• Support availability, disaster recovery, root-cause analysis, operational improvements and technical documentation.

Kubernetes and microservices

• Administer and troubleshoot clusters, Pods, Deployments, StatefulSets, Services, Ingress, ConfigMaps, Secrets and persistent storage.
• Manage resource requests and limits, autoscaling, health probes, networking, registries, Helm deployments and rollbacks.
• Support service connectivity, APIs, logging, monitoring, production performance and capacity troubleshooting.
• Azure Kubernetes Service experience is highly preferred.

WebLogic experience

• Production WebLogic support experience is stated as required/preferred in the source.
• Expected knowledge includes domains, Admin and Managed Servers, clusters, deployments, JVM and memory troubleshooting, threads, connection pools, data sources and JMS.
• Also includes startup and shutdown, Node Manager, logs, deployment failures, performance, high availability, load balancing, SSL certificates and WebLogic on Azure.

CI/CD and automation

• Expected experience includes Azure DevOps, Azure Repos, Azure Pipelines, YAML, build and release pipelines, Git, branching, variables and service connections.
• Work includes artifact management, automated deployments, approval workflows, environment-specific deployments and rollback procedures.
• Jenkins integration with Docker/Kubernetes is an advantage.

Monitoring and troubleshooting

• Monitoring platforms named include Azure Monitor, Application Insights, Log Analytics, AppDynamics, Dynatrace, Splunk, Grafana and Prometheus.
• The role requires investigating issues across the complete technology stack, not only CI/CD pipelines.

Required qualifications

• 8–10 years of IT, DevOps, infrastructure or application-platform experience; hands-on Azure, Kubernetes/AKS, microservices, Docker, Azure DevOps and Linux experience.
• WebLogic support, networking fundamentals, scripting and Infrastructure as Code experience are required.
• Requires production application support, analytical troubleshooting, cross-functional collaboration, communication and documentation skills.
• Requires a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, IT, Engineering or a related field.

Preferred skills

• Preferred: Microsoft Azure certification; CKA/CKAD Kubernetes certification; Terraform; Helm; Jenkins; Azure Container Registry; Azure networking; WebLogic administration.
• Preferred: AppDynamics, Dynatrace or Splunk; DevSecOps; GitOps; disaster recovery and high-availability design.