Job Title: Senior DevOps Engineer – Azure
Location: Ahmedabad
Experience: 4+ years (Relevant DevOps Experience)
Employment Type: Full Time
Department: DevOps
About Simform:
Simform is a premier digital engineering company specializing in Cloud, Data, AI/ML, and Experience Engineering to create seamless digital experiences and scalable products. Simform is a strong partner for Microsoft, AWS, Google Cloud, and Databricks. With a presence in 5+ countries, Simform primarily serves North America, the UK, and the Northern European market.
Simform takes pride in being one of the most reputed employers in the region, having created a thriving work culture with a high work-life balance that gives a sense of freedom and opportunity to grow.
Job Overview:
We are seeking a skilled and detail-oriented Senior DevOps Engineer with a strong background in Azure cloud infrastructure. This role is ideal for professionals who are passionate about automation, scalability, and ensuring best practices in CI/CD and cloud deployments. You will be responsible for managing and modernizing medium-sized, multi-tier environments, building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines, and supporting application and infrastructure reliability and security.
Key Responsibilities:
- Design, implement, and maintain CI/CD pipelines for efficient and secure application deployment.
- Lead infrastructure development and operational support in Azure, ensuring high availability and performance.
- Work with modern containerization technologies like Docker, Docker Compose, and orchestrators like Kubernetes.
- Implement and follow Git best practices across teams.
- Use Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools, preferably Terraform, to provision cloud resources.
- Plan and enforce DevSecOps processes and ensure security compliance throughout the software development lifecycle.
- Develop and monitor application and infrastructure performance using tools like Azure Monitor, Managed Grafana, and other observability tools.
- Drive multi-tenancy SaaS architecture implementation and deployment best practices.
- Collaborate with development teams to ensure alignment with DevOps best practices.
- Troubleshoot issues across development, testing, and production environments.
- Provide leadership in infrastructure planning, design reviews, and incident management.
Required Skills & Experience:
- 4+ years of relevant hands-on DevOps experience.
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills.
- Solid foundational knowledge in DevOps methodologies and tools.
- Expertise in Azure cloud services, with a working knowledge of AWS also preferred.
- Proficiency in Kubernetes, including deploying, scaling, and maintaining clusters.
- Experience with web servers like Nginx and Apache.
- Familiarity with the Well-Architected Framework (Azure).
- Practical experience with monitoring and observability tools in Azure.
- Working knowledge of DevSecOps tools and security best practices.
- Proven debugging and troubleshooting skills across infrastructure and applications.
- Experience supporting multi-tenant SaaS platforms is a plus.
- Experience in application performance monitoring and tuning.
- Experience with Azure dashboarding, logging, and monitoring tools, such as Managed Grafana, is a strong advantage.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Azure certifications (e.g., AZ-400, AZ-104)
- Experience in cloud migration and application modernization
- Familiarity with tools like Prometheus, Grafana, ELK stack, or similar
- Leadership experience or mentoring junior engineers
Why Join Us:
- Young Team, Thriving Culture
- Flat-hierarchical, friendly, engineering-oriented, and growth-focused culture.
- Well-balanced learning and growth opportunities
- Free health insurance.
- Office facilities with a game zone, in-office kitchen with affordable lunch service, and free snacks.
- Sponsorship for certifications/events and library service.
- Flexible work timing, leaves for life events, WFH and hybrid options