Senior Azure DevOps Engineer

Job Description

About you
You are a Senior Azure DevOps Engineer who enjoys designing, managing, and troubleshooting complex cloud infrastructure while ensuring secure and reliable application delivery. You bring strong hands-on expertise in Microsoft Azure and Infrastructure as Code, with the technical judgment to navigate existing environments, resolve challenging issues, and improve platform stability.

You are comfortable taking ownership of infrastructure decisions, working with complex Terraform configurations, and implementing secure identity and deployment workflows. You thrive in distributed engineering environments, communicate technical decisions clearly, and approach operational challenges with autonomy, accountability, and a continuous improvement mindset.

Note: This role operates under a 6-month contract-to-hire model and requires on-site presence at our offices in Mexico City, Mexico, or São Paulo, Brazil.

You bring to Applaudo the following competencies:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, or a related field is desired, or equivalent professional experience.
• 5+ years of professional experience in DevOps or Infrastructure Engineering, including recent hands-on Microsoft Azure experience.
• Strong production experience with Terraform, including troubleshooting and maintaining large, complex, or poorly documented module codebases.
• Advanced experience with Microsoft Entra ID, including app registrations, custom app roles, delegated and application permissions, access controls, and OpenID Connect (OIDC).
• Strong hands-on experience building and maintaining GitHub Actions CI/CD pipelines, including OIDC-based deployment authentication.
• Experience with Azure services, including App Service, Azure Functions, Azure SQL, PostgreSQL, Storage, Redis, Service Bus, Event Hubs, API Management, Azure AI Search, and Azure AI Foundry.
• Strong knowledge of Azure Networking and Security, including DNS, VNet integration, Private Endpoints, Network Security Groups (NSGs), Managed Identities, and Key Vault.
• Ability to independently troubleshoot Azure infrastructure and application-platform issues using native tools and command-line interfaces.
• Experience working with Linux environments and scripting using Bash and PowerShell.
• Strong problem-solving skills, operational ownership, and ability to independently manage incidents and infrastructure issues.
• Ability to collaborate effectively with distributed engineering teams and communicate technical decisions clearly.
• Strong verbal and written English communication skills.

Nice to Have:

• Experience deploying and troubleshooting containerized workloads on AKS or Azure App Service.
• Experience remediating resources affected by organization-level Azure Policies.
• Familiarity with cloud compliance practices and identifying unused cloud resources for cost optimization.
• Experience investigating logs using Datadog and Azure diagnostic settings.
• Familiarity with ARM templates.
• Previous contract or consulting experience.
• Ability to guide developers with cloud experience who are less familiar with Microsoft Azure.
• Azure Administrator, HashiCorp Terraform Associate, or Azure DevOps Engineer Expert certification.

You will be accountable for the following responsibilities:

• Design, provision, and manage Microsoft Azure infrastructure using Terraform and env0.
• Review, troubleshoot, maintain, and optimize existing Terraform configurations and module codebases.
• Manage Microsoft Entra ID configurations, including app registrations, permissions, application roles, and deployment identities.
• Develop and optimize GitHub Actions CI/CD pipelines using OIDC-based authentication.
• Configure and maintain Azure networking, platform services, access controls, and secrets management.
• Diagnose and resolve infrastructure and application-platform issues using Azure-native tools and command-line interfaces.
• Configure diagnostic settings and use Datadog to investigate logs, alerts, and operational issues.
• Independently troubleshoot and resolve incidents during LATAM working hours, ensuring operational continuity across time zones.
• Translate development requirements into appropriate Azure identity, networking, and infrastructure configurations.
• Collaborate with distributed Engineering and DevOps teams to support reliable cloud operations and application deployments.
• Maintain accurate technical documentation, infrastructure standards, and operational procedures.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of DevOps or Infrastructure Engineering experience.
• Advanced Microsoft Azure and Terraform expertise.
• Strong Microsoft Entra ID, OIDC, and GitHub Actions experience.
• Azure Networking, Security, and Infrastructure troubleshooting.
• Linux and Bash or PowerShell scripting.
• Advanced English proficiency.

Additional Information

About Us

We Are Engineered Different.

At Applaudo, talented people design, build, and scale meaningful, AI-powered solutions that create real business impact. As an AI-native organization, we collaborate across design, development, cloud, data, and artificial intelligence to turn ideas into scalable products that transform how companies operate, make decisions, and grow.

We are building a high-performance culture grounded in five values: Empowering Excellence, Collaborative Teamwork, Unsolicited Respect, Consistent Transparency, and Efficient Communication. These define how we work, how we support one another, and how we hold ourselves accountable.

Applaudo is a place for people who want to learn fast, take ownership, and work alongside strong teams they are proud to belong to. Joining us means being part of an organization that is evolving intentionally, investing in modern ways of working, and leading AI-native transformation at scale.