Azure Cloud DevOps Engineer

16 hours ago


Bucharest, Bucureşti, Romania Optimizor Full time 30,000 - 60,000 per year

Team:
Platform / SRE / Cloud Engineering

Reports to:
Head of DevOps | Engineering Manager

Role Summary

You'll design, build, and operate secure, scalable, and cost-efficient infrastructure on Microsoft Azure. You'll own CI/CD, infrastructure as code, observability, and reliability practices that let our product teams ship fast and safely.

What You'll Do

  • Design & build on Azure:
    Create resilient architectures using AKS, App Services, Functions, ACR, App Gateway/Front Door, VNets (hub-spoke), Private Link, NSGs, Azure Firewall, Load Balancers, Key Vault, Storage, SQL/Managed Instance/Cosmos DB.
  • Infrastructure as Code:
    Author, review, and version Terraform/Bicep modules (and occasional ARM), implement reusable patterns, manage state and environments.
  • CI/CD:
    Implement pipelines (Azure DevOps or GitHub Actions) for build/test/deploy; enable blue/green & canary releases; automate database and infra migrations.
  • Containers & runtime:
    Build Docker images, manage Helm charts, ingress, secrets, and scaling for AKS; optimize cluster cost and reliability.
  • Security & compliance:
    Integrate Azure AD (Entra ID), RBAC, Managed Identities, Azure Policy, Defender for Cloud; drive least-privilege and vulnerability remediation; support audits (ISO 27001, SOC 2).
  • Observability & SRE:
    Set up Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, Application Insights; define SLI/SLOs, alerts, runbooks, error budgets; lead incident response and postmortems.
  • Networking:
    Implement secure connectivity (ExpressRoute/VPN), DNS, peering, routing, and egress controls.
  • Cost & performance:
    Right-size resources, tag and track spend, implement budgets and alerts; performance test and tune services.
  • Collaboration:
    Partner with developers to "shift left" on reliability and security; mentor peers; contribute to platform roadmap and documentation.
  • Automation & tooling:
    Script with PowerShell/Bash/Python; build internal tools, templates, and guardrails.

Education

  • Bachelor's in CS/CE or equivalent practical experience.

Required Qualifications

  • 3-5+ years in DevOps/SRE/Cloud Engineering, including 2+ years hands-on with
    Microsoft Azure
    .
  • Proficiency with
    Terraform
    or
    Bicep
    ,
    Git
    , and modern CI/CD (Azure DevOps or GitHub Actions).
  • Strong experience with
    AKS
    (or Kubernetes elsewhere), Docker, Helm, and secrets management (Key Vault).
  • Solid grasp of
    networking fundamentals
    (VNet, DNS, SSL/TLS, load balancing, routing, firewalls).
  • Production experience with
    monitoring/alerting
    (Azure Monitor, App Insights, Log Analytics) and on-call.
  • Scripting ability in
    PowerShell
    and/or
    Bash
    (Python a plus).
  • Understanding of
    cloud security
    (identity, RBAC, policies, encryption) and
    IaC best practices
    .
  • Clear, pragmatic communicator; able to document designs and guide others.

Nice to Have

  • Azure certifications (AZ-104, AZ-400, AZ-305).
  • Experience with
    Event Hub
    ,
    Service Bus
    ,
    Cosmos DB
    ,
    Redis
    ,
    Data Factory
    ,
    Purview
    .
  • Secrets & config with
    Azure Key Vault + CSI
    ,
    SOPS
    , or
    External Secrets
    .
  • Service mesh (e.g.,
    Open Service Mesh/Linkerd
    ), API management (
    APIM
    ).
  • Policy as code (e.g.,
    OPA/Conftest
    ), container scanning (Defender for Cloud, Trivy).
  • Experience in regulated environments (PCI, HIPAA) and disaster recovery design.

Core Competencies

  • Systems thinking & reliability engineering
  • Automation & platform mindset
  • Security-by-default
  • Incident ownership & calm under pressure
  • Collaborative enablement of product teams

Success Metrics (KPIs)

  • Deployment throughput & lead time:
    ↑ releases/week, ↓ PR-to-prod time.
  • Change failure rate:
    ↓ % of failed deploys;
    MTTR:
    ↓ time to restore service.
  • Availability vs SLOs:
    % services meeting targets; error budget policy adherence.
  • Cost efficiency:
    $/env within budget; reserved/savings plan coverage.
  • Infra drift & compliance:
    IaC-managed resources; policy violations resolved on SLA.
  • Security posture:
    Vulnerabilities & misconfigurations remediated within SLA.

Example Responsibilities by Seniority

  • Mid-level:
    Implement pipelines, write modules, maintain AKS workloads, respond to incidents.
  • Senior:
    Architect platform patterns, drive SLOs and chaos/DR tests, lead incident reviews, mentor engineers.
  • Staff/Principal:
    Set cloud strategy, create golden paths, govern multi-subscription/landing zones at scale.

Tools You'll Likely Use

Azure DevOps / GitHub, Terraform/Bicep, AKS, Docker, Helm, Key Vault, Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, App Insights, Azure Policy, Defender for Cloud, App Gateway/Front Door, APIM, PowerShell, Bash, Python.

Benefits

  • Regina Maria private healthcare subscription
  • Complimentary budget on the Benefit platform
  • Bookster subscription


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