Kubernetes Practice Specialist - Azure DevOps

Job Summary

Lead DevOps strategy, team operations, and platform engineering efforts—driving automation, reliability, cost optimization, and cloud-native best practices across the organization.

Key Responsibilities

Define DevOps roadmap, standards, and architectural patterns.

· Lead design of CI/CD pipelines, multi-cloud environments, and automation frameworks.

· Mentor DevOps engineers and drive operational excellence.

· Establish infrastructure-as-code standards and reusable templates.

· Implement enterprise observability: tracing, metrics, logs, SLOs/SLIs.

· Oversee Kubernetes clusters, scaling, performance tuning, and security.

· Set governance for deployments, environment management, and access controls.

· Drive incident response, RCA processes, and reliability improvements.

· Optimize cloud spend with FinOps best practices.

· Partner with development, QA, security, and architecture teams for seamless delivery.

Skill Requirements

Deep expertise in cloud platforms (Azure/AWS/GCP) and Kubernetes.

· Strong hands-on with IaC (Terraform, Helm, Bicep) and CI/CD systems.

· Knowledge of SRE practices (SLIs, SLOs, error budgets).

· Strong understanding of security, networking, and performance tuning.

· Proven experience leading DevOps/SRE teams.

Other Requirements