Lead DevOps Engineer (Azure & .NET Ecosystem)

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and support API integrations on Azure API Management (APIM)
• Develop and optimize policies (XML and C# expressions) for authentication, token handling, caching, transformation, routing, rate limiting, and error handling
• Implement Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform to provision, manage, and maintain environments
• Deploy, configure, and operate cloud-native services, including Azure Functions, Web Apps, Container Apps, and AKS, applying containerization and Kubernetes orchestration best practices
• Manage and troubleshoot Azure DevOps self-hosted build and deployment agents across on-premises servers, Azure Virtual Machine Scale Sets (VMSS), and Managed DevOps Pools (MDP), ensuring agent availability, connectivity, security, performance, and reliable pipeline execution
• Oversee application deployments across Windows and Linux environments, including on-premises infrastructure; configure, maintain, and troubleshoot backend and frontend application hosting using IIS, Nginx, and other relevant web/application servers
• Design, implement, and maintain CI/CD pipelines in Azure DevOps
• Ensure security and compliance by implementing OAuth 2.0, mutual TLS, SSL/TLS, RBAC, certificate management, and secure API design principles
• Lead complex technical investigations and root cause analysis across applications, APIs, infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, and network layers, independently diagnosing issues spanning multiple systems using logs, traces, metrics, and systematic troubleshooting techniques
• Troubleshoot end-to-end request flows across clients, WAF, API Management, networking components, and backend services using KQL, Log Analytics, Application Insights, APIM tracing, and request correlation; develop monitoring dashboards and proactive alerts

Languages

Required

• Hands-on experience with Azure API Management, including developing complex policies and C# policy expressions
• Background in .NET development with proven experience building, integrating, and troubleshooting APIs and cloud applications
• Expertise in systematic troubleshooting, including log analysis, request tracing, network diagnostics, performance analysis, issue reproduction, and correlation of events across distributed systems
• Proficiency in leveraging LLM-powered AI agents and AI-assisted development tools for code development, troubleshooting, log analysis, infrastructure automation, scripting, and technical investigations, including prompt engineering
• Skills in CI/CD with Azure DevOps, including YAML pipelines, deployment automation, and infrastructure provisioning using Terraform
• Capability to deploy, configure, maintain, and troubleshoot applications on Windows and Linux servers, including IIS, Nginx, and backend application hosting
• Familiarity with Azure Functions, AKS/Container Apps, and Web Apps, API gateways, and WAF
• Understanding of Microsoft Entra ID, OAuth 2.0, and JWT, as well as mutual TLS, TLS certificates, Azure RBAC, and Azure Key Vault
• Knowledge of networking fundamentals, including DNS, HTTP/HTTPS, and TCP/IP, along with TLS handshakes, proxies, load balancers, firewalls, and connectivity troubleshooting
• Qualifications in REST, SOAP, JSON, and XML, including SPA consumption patterns and CORS considerations

Nice to have

• 5+ years of experience in DevOps or related roles, including at least 1 year of leadership experience
• Excellent analytical, investigation, and problem-solving skills

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