Associate Staff Engineer (Azure Devops Repos, Kubernetes, Signoz)

Job Description

Requirements

• 4 to 6 years of overall experience in DevOps engineering roles.
• Strong hands-on experience with Azure DevOps Repos for source control, branching strategies, and pull request workflows.
• Capable working knowledge of Ansible for configuration management, automation, and infrastructure-as-code.
• Strong proficiency in Docker containerization, including writing Dockerfiles, image optimization, and container lifecycle management.
• Strong experience with Kubernetes, including cluster setup, deployment manifests, Helm charts, service discovery, ingress, and scaling.
• Working experience with Signoz for observability, monitoring, and distributed tracing in microservices environments.
• Solid understanding of CI/CD pipelines, build automation, and release management.
• Familiarity with infrastructure-as-code concepts and version-controlled configurations.
• Ability to troubleshoot complex application and infrastructure issues in distributed systems.
• Good understanding of networking, security best practices, and secrets management in cloud environments.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills for working with development and operations teams.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and maintain CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps, integrating source control, build, test, and deployment stages.
• Manage and optimize Azure DevOps Repos, ensuring proper branching models, code reviews, and repository governance.
• Write and maintain Ansible playbooks and roles for automated provisioning, configuration, and application deployment across environments.
• Build, maintain, and secure Docker images, ensuring minimal image size, layer caching, and adherence to security scanning practices.
• Deploy, manage, and scale Kubernetes clusters, including writing manifests, managing ConfigMaps, secrets, persistent volumes, and network policies.
• Implement and maintain observability stack using Signoz, setting up dashboards, alerts, and tracing for application performance and system health.
• Automate infrastructure provisioning and application deployment workflows to reduce manual intervention and improve reliability.
• Collaborate with development teams to integrate application code with CI/CD pipelines and container orchestration.
• Perform root cause analysis for production incidents and implement preventive measures.
• Monitor system performance, resource utilization, and cost optimization across cloud and container environments.
• Ensure security compliance and best practices are followed in all DevOps processes, including secrets management and access controls.
• Continuously evaluate and adopt new tools and practices to improve automation, reliability, and delivery velocity.

Qualifications

Bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science, Information Technology, or a related field.