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Azure DevOps Engineer

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Job Description & Details

This contract gig is looking for a senior Azure DevOps engineer to own CI/CD pipelines and IaC for enterprise workloads. You’ll be the go‑to person for everything from Terraform to AKS, and the team expects you to keep the cloud delivery reliable and secure.

What You'll Actually Be Doing

You’ll spend most of your time wiring Azure DevOps pipelines end‑to‑end: pulling code from Git, building Docker images, pushing them to a registry, and deploying to AKS or VMs. You’ll also write Terraform or ARM/Bicep modules to spin up the underlying infrastructure, keep the state tidy, and make sure releases are repeatable. Monitoring and troubleshooting live pipelines, tweaking branching strategies, and collaborating with dev, QA, security, and ops to squash blockers are daily chores.

The Core Tech Stack

The non‑negotiables are deep experience with Azure DevOps Services and the broader Azure ecosystem—think VMs, Storage, Networking, Monitor, and especially AKS. You must be fluent in IaC (Terraform, ARM Templates or Bicep) and comfortable scripting in PowerShell, Bash, or Python to glue everything together. Containerization with Docker and orchestration with Kubernetes are also core, plus solid Git branching and release‑management knowledge to keep enterprise‑scale codebases tidy.

Interview Expectations

  1. Design a blue‑green deployment for an AKS service using Azure DevOps pipelines. Expect the interviewer to probe how you handle traffic shifting, health checks, and rollback without downtime—show you can orchestrate multiple stages and validate each step.
  2. Explain Terraform state management in a multi‑team environment. They’ll look for strategies like remote backends, state locking, workspace segregation, and drift detection, demonstrating you can keep infrastructure consistent across dozens of engineers.

Application Advice

Tailor your resume to hit the exact buzzwords the JD throws at you: Azure DevOps, CI/CD pipeline design, Terraform/ARM/Bicep, Azure VMs, Azure Storage, Azure Networking, Azure Monitor, AKS, Docker, Kubernetes, PowerShell, Bash, Python, Git branching strategies, release management, enterprise‑scale, reliability, scalability, security, compliance. Highlight any end‑to‑end pipeline you built, especially if you automated infra provisioning and managed state. A concise bullet that says “Implemented blue‑green deployments on AKS via Azure DevOps, reducing release downtime by 90%” will jump out to both ATS and the hiring manager.