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DevOps Engineer (Azure) - Remote

Lakeside Software

INremote countryPosted May 28, 2026

At a glance

Highlights

  • Remote work from India
  • Generous paid leave (20‑45 days)
  • Comprehensive medical and pension benefits

Heads up

  • On-call rotations required

Why this role might suit you

A senior‑level DevOps professional with deep Azure expertise will thrive in this role, leveraging extensive IaC, CI/CD, and monitoring experience to ensure high‑availability production systems while enjoying remote work and strong benefits.

Skills

azureterraformarm-templatesbicepsqlactive-directorygithub-actionsazure-devopsgithubpowershellbashpythonazure-monitorgrafanauptrendsapplication-insightsvnetnsgprivate-endpointsload-balancingdockerkubernetes

About the role

Job Summary

We are seeking a driven and technically skilled DevOps Engineer with strong Microsoft Azure experience to support, troubleshoot, and improve cloud infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, automation, monitoring, and operational reliability across production environments. This role is highly operational and troubleshooting focused, requiring someone who is comfortable diagnosing production issues, responding to alerts and outages, managing escalated support tickets, and serving as a key escalation point for infrastructure and application support.

The ideal candidate enjoys problem solving, identifying root causes, stabilizing environments, and partnering cross functionally to resolve complex operational issues quickly and effectively. This position operates within Agile/Scrum environments while balancing real time operational support priorities.

Location

Remote — India

Responsibilities

Build, deploy, maintain, and troubleshoot scalable Azure cloud infrastructure

Develop and maintain Infrastructure as Code (IaC) solutions

Create, manage, troubleshoot, and improve CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation

Monitor production systems and actively respond to operational alerts, incidents, outages, and performance degradation

Own and manage escalated support tickets and serve as a technical escalation point for operational issues

Investigate and troubleshoot infrastructure, deployment, networking, database, and application related problems

Perform root cause analysis and implement corrective actions to improve long term system stability

Support highly available environments aligned with SLA/SLO objectives

Participate in on call rotations and support critical production incidents as needed

Perform application maintenance, patching, upgrades, and environment support activities

Collaborate with development, security, infrastructure, and support teams to resolve operational issues quickly

Work within Agile/Scrum processes while also handling ad hoc operational and troubleshooting priorities

Implement operational best practices for reliability, security, monitoring, and performance optimization

Maintain operational documentation, deployment standards, troubleshooting guides, and support procedures

Requirements

Minimum Requirements

5+ years of experience working in technology, infrastructure, cloud engineering, DevOps, or IT operations roles

3+ years of hands on experience with Microsoft Azure cloud services

Experience supporting and troubleshooting production environments with SLA/SLO requirements

Strong experience responding to operational alerts, incidents, outages, escalations, and infrastructure troubleshooting activities

Experience diagnosing and resolving deployment, networking, application connectivity, and system performance issues

Experience working in fast paced Agile/Scrum and ad hoc operational support environments

Experience acting as a ticket owner or escalation resource for infrastructure and application related support cases

3+ years of Infrastructure as Code (IaC) experience using Terraform preferred; ARM templates and/or Bicep acceptable

2+ years of experience working with SQL databases and Active Directory environments

Experience designing, managing, and troubleshooting CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions, Bitbucket Pipelines, and/or Azure DevOps

Strong experience with Git based version control systems, primarily GitHub

Experience with automation and scripting using PowerShell, Bash, or Python

Hands on experience with monitoring and observability platforms such as Azure Monitor, Grafana, Uptrends, and Application Insights

Experience troubleshooting Azure networking components including VNets, NSGs, Private Endpoints, peering, load balancing, and application connectivity

Understanding of cloud security, operational reliability, and infrastructure best practices

Preferred Qualifications

Microsoft Certified: Azure Administrator Associate (AZ-104)

Experience with containerization and orchestration technologies such as Docker or Kubernetes

Experience supporting or integrating AI/ML related Azure services such as Azure OpenAI, Azure AI Foundry, or Azure AI Search

Familiarity with GitOps or platform engineering concepts

Strong troubleshooting, analytical thinking, and root cause analysis skills

Strong communication and cross team collaboration skills

Benefits

20 Days Annual Leave

45 Days Annual Leave Maximum

4 Festival Days Named

8 Festival Days Select

12 Days Sick Leave

100% Paid Medical Insurance & GPA

Wellness Programme

3x CTC Group Life Insurance

Pension

Employee Referral Scheme

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