Azure DevOps Engineer (Temporary Contract)

About You

You are a DevOps Engineer who enjoys designing, building, and evolving modern software delivery ecosystems. You are motivated by improving infrastructure reliability, deployment efficiency, and engineering productivity through automation and cloud-native practices.

You feel comfortable working in Azure-based environments, enabling scalable infrastructure and CI/CD processes while collaborating with distributed teams. You are curious about emerging AI-assisted engineering workflows and open to integrating these tools into your day-to-day DevOps practice.

• Note: This position is offered under a contractor model for an initial period of 6 months, with the possibility of extension.
  This role requires the ability to work onsite at the Gurgaon office two days per week.

You Bring to Applaudo the Following Competencies:

• 4+ years of professional experience in DevOps, SRE, or infrastructure engineering roles.
• Hands-on experience with Terraform and Infrastructure as Code practices.
• Strong exposure to Azure cloud services, including networking, databases, and identity management.
• Experience managing CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions and/or Azure DevOps.
• Working knowledge of Docker and Kubernetes.
• Experience with identity and access management solutions such as Entra ID and Okta.
• Proficiency in scripting using Bash, PowerShell, or Python.
• Experience with monitoring and observability tools such as Datadog or Azure Application Insights.
• Exposure to application deployments across modern stacks (e.g., React, Python, SQL-based environments).
• Familiarity with AI-assisted development tools such as Cursor, Claude, Codex, or GitHub Copilot (nice to have).
• Understanding of cloud governance and multi-environment setups (nice to have).
• AWS knowledge or exposure (nice to have).
• Relevant certifications such as Azure Administrator or Terraform Associate (nice to have).

You Will Be Accountable for the Following Responsibilities:

• Contribute to the design, implementation, and continuous improvement of cloud infrastructure and deployment pipelines.
• Develop and maintain Infrastructure as Code using Terraform and automation platforms such as env0.
• Manage and optimize Azure cloud services, including networking, identity, and platform components.
• Design, implement, and maintain CI/CD workflows that enable reliable and scalable software delivery.
• Enable monitoring, observability, and performance optimization using tools such as Datadog and Azure Application Insights.
• Collaborate with engineering teams to support application deployments and improve overall delivery processes.