Senior DevOps Engineer (Azure)

Our client is a global leader in Human Experience Management (HXM), enabling companies to hire, onboard, and pay talent in over 160 countries—without the need to set up legal entities. Through their own cloud-based platform and direct Employer of Record (EOR) model, they’re changing how businesses approach international expansion. With a truly global, diverse, and remote-first team, they are committed to making the future of work borderless, inclusive, and impactful.

As a Senior DevOps Engineer, you will help architect and optimize the cloud infrastructure that supports a global, high-availability HR tech platform. Your primary focus will be on Azure and Kubernetes environments, although AWS plays a role too. This is a hands-on position where you'll automate infrastructure, enhance CI/CD pipelines, and lead cloud reliability practices while working with engineering, product, and security teams.

• Architect, manage, and optimize cloud environments across Azure and AWS.
• Implement and maintain Infrastructure as Code using Terraform (or CloudFormation).
• Build, improve, and automate CI/CD pipelines with GitHub Actions and Azure DevOps.
• Manage Kubernetes clusters and containerized applications.
• Monitor and troubleshoot infrastructure and applications to ensure performance, reliability, and uptime.
• Administer databases (SQL, NoSQL, PostgreSQL, MySQL), including backups and tuning.
• Implement best practices in security, secrets management, and compliance (Key Vault, Secrets Manager, OWASP, NIST).
• Deploy and manage observability tools (Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana, Azure Monitor, CloudWatch).
• Collaborate across teams to promote GitOps, DevOps, and SRE practices.
• Contribute to incident response and post-mortems to improve system resilience.
• Support developer productivity and enable fast, secure releases.

• 5+ years of experience as a DevOps Engineer in cloud-native environments.
• Expertise in Azure (AKS, Functions, App Services, Key Vault, etc.) and solid experience with AWS.
• Strong knowledge of Terraform, GitHub Actions, and Azure DevOps.
• Hands-on experience with Docker and Kubernetes.
• Proficiency in scripting and automation (Python, Bash, PowerShell).
• Database experience with SQL and NoSQL systems.
• Solid understanding of networking, load balancers, VPCs, and SSL certs.
• Strong grasp of application security, IAM, and compliance standards.
• Experience with observability stacks like Datadog, Prometheus, or Grafana.
• Clear English communication skills and a proactive, ownership-driven attitude.