Senior Cloud and DevOps Engineer – Azure Applications

Role purpose

Key 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, version-controlled infrastructure configuration.
• Implement deployment checks, approvals, 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 owners.
• Assess scaling, resource utilization, and availability; recommend improvements and monitor cloud costs.
• Coordinate application and database backups with Technical Support and validate restoration and recovery procedures.
• Maintain environment inventories, deployment guides, runbooks, and knowledge transfer.

Qualifications and experience

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Technology, or a related field.
• At least 5 years of cloud or DevOps engineering experience, including at least 3 years operating production applications on Azure.
• Strong experience with Azure App Service, Functions, Storage/Blob, Key Vault, Azure Monitor, and Application Insights; API Management and Service Bus are preferred.
• Experience with Azure DevOps Pipelines or GitHub Actions; Terraform or Bicep; and deploying and troubleshooting Node.js, Next.js, .NET, and headless CMS applications.
• Practical Docker experience; Kubernetes is preferred where relevant. Proficiency in PowerShell, Bash, or Python for automation.
• Understanding of Microsoft Entra ID, managed identities, RBAC, DNS, TLS, private endpoints, and application connectivity.
• Experience supporting SQL Server and PostgreSQL deployments and connectivity; incident diagnosis, root-cause analysis, monitoring, and recovery testing.
• Microsoft Azure Administrator or DevOps Engineer certification is preferred.
• Ability to coordinate developers, vendors, Technical Support, and security teams with clear operational ownership.

Location

• The role is based in Ajman, UAE.