Senior DevOps Engineer (Azure Infrastructure)

Senior DevOps Engineer (Azure Infrastructure) - remote - Europe (Romania, Poland, Portugal, Spain, Bulgaria etc.)Required Skills & Experience5+ years working with Azure cloud services and infrastructure.Strong knowledge of:Networking: VNet, subnets, peering, private DNS zones, Front Door, Application Gateway, NSGs.Compute & Storage: Virtual Machines, Azure Storage, Service Bus, Event Grid.Databases: Cosmos DB, Azure SQL (elastic pools).Containerization: ACR, AKS, Helm charts, ingress controllers.Identity Management: User/System-assigned identities, service principals.Experience with Azure Data Factory pipelines and integration with other services.Proven ability to implement monitoring and logging solutions.Hands-on experience with IaC tools: Bicep, ARM (Terraform is a plus).Expertise in CI/CD automation using Azure DevOps YAML pipelines.Familiarity with multi-region deployments, disaster recovery strategies, and Azure governance.CertificationsAZ-104 (Azure Administrator) and AZ-400 (DevOps Engineer) preferred, or equivalent experience.Key ResponsibilitiesDesign, implement, and manage Azure infrastructure resources following best practices for hub-spoke architecture, networking, and security.Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps YAML pipelines, ensuring automated deployments for both infrastructure and applications.Develop and manage Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Bicep and ARM templates for consistent and repeatable deployments.Implement monitoring and observability solutions using Log Analytics Workspace, Application Insights, and Azure Policies.Ensure high availability and disaster recovery across multi-region deployments (active-active/active-passive).Collaborate with development teams to integrate infrastructure and application deployments seamlessly.Optimize cloud costs and enforce governance through policies and automation.Nice to HaveExperience with application development (C#, ASP.NET) for troubleshooting and integration.Awareness of cost optimization and security best practices in Azure.AZ-305: Azure Solutions Architect Expert