Azure DevOps Engineer (Azure / Terraform / PaaS)

IT Associates is seeking an experienced Azure Platform Engineer to join their engineering team. The role involves designing, implementing, automating, and maintaining scalable cloud platform solutions within the Microsoft Azure ecosystem, working closely with various stakeholders to deliver secure and cost-effective solutions.

Responsibilities:

• Build and maintain reusable cloud platform capabilities that enable application teams to deploy and operate solutions efficiently within Azure
• Develop, maintain, and enhance Terraform-based automation and reusable deployment patterns
• Build, support, and improve deployment pipelines using Harness and other automation tools
• Support deployment, automation, and operational excellence for Azure-hosted applications and services
• Implement cloud security standards, access controls, secrets management, and governance best practices
• Leverage Azure monitoring and observability tools to proactively identify issues, improve reliability, and enhance operational efficiency
• Partner with architects, developers, operations teams, and business stakeholders to support modernization initiatives, cloud adoption, and continuous improvement efforts

Requirements:

• 5+ years of experience in Platform Engineering, Cloud Engineering, DevOps, Infrastructure Automation, or related roles, with at least 2+ years supporting solutions on Microsoft Azure
• Experience building automation, integrations, and tooling using Java and/or Python
• Hands-on experience supporting and enabling Azure App Service, Azure Functions, and containerized workloads (Docker, Azure Container Registry)
• Strong experience with Terraform for provisioning Azure App Service and Azure Functions for Infrastructure as a code (IaC)
• Experience building and supporting CI/CD pipelines using Harness and/or similar deployment platforms
• Solid understanding of cloud security principles, identity management, access controls, and secrets management
• Proficiency with Git and branching strategies
• Strong verbal and written communication skills with the ability to effectively collaborate across technical and business teams
• Experience migrating legacy on-premises applications to Azure PaaS/Serverless architectures
• Experience with containerization and modern deployment practices and deploying to AKS or Azure container Apps
• Experience developing reusable infrastructure modules and automation frameworks
• Microsoft Certified: Azure Developer Associate (AZ-204) or Azure Solutions Architect Expert (AZ-305)