Job Title: Senior DevOps Engineer – Azure

Location: Ahmedabad

Experience: 4+ years

Employment Type: Full Time

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, 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 IIS, 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.

• Azure professional certifications (e.g., AZ-400, AZ-305)

Preferred Qualifications:

• 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