Azure DevOps Engineer

Role Overview: This position is an Senior Azure Cloud Engineer role within our client’s pre-production Mobility Labs group. The team is responsible for building and standardizing CI/CD pipelines that automate how Network Functions are deployed across multiple lab environments, with a future path to production deployments. This role works closely with our client’s application teams and third-party vendors to design, implement, and drive CI/CD automation using Azure DevOps (ADO). The focus is on pipeline development, deployment automation, and workflow orchestration. We are seeking a well-rounded professional who brings an equal balance of vendor management expertise (50%) and hands-on technical skills (50%). This role serves as a key bridge between external partners and internal technical teams, ensuring vendors deliver high-quality solutions while also contributing directly to technical execution and problem solving.

What You’ll Do:

• Design, build, and maintain Azure DevOps CI/CD pipelines to automate deployment

• of Network Functions across lab and future production environments

• Collaborate directly with application teams and third-party application vendors to

• integrate CI/CD workflows

• Coordinate vendor deliverables, timelines, and dependencies with internal

• stakeholders

• Ensure vendors meet quality, security, and compliance standards

• Identify CI/CD improvements and standardization opportunities

• Support container-based workflows using Docker and Kubernetes

• Create and troubleshoot Linux shell script templates from scratch

• Develop and maintain YAML-based Azure DevOps pipelines, with emphasis on

• deployment activities

• Work with Azure DevOps agents, repositories, and pipeline templates

• Implement secure pipeline integrations using Azure Key Vault, service principals,

• and Azure Resource Manager endpoints

• Automate infrastructure configuration using Terraform (pipeline-driven, not infra

• ownership)

• Use Azure CLI extensively for automation and troubleshooting

• Drive and lead technical discussions, design reviews, and working sessions

• Troubleshoot pipeline failures and deployment issues across environments

What You’ll Need:

• Strong (about 10+ years of experience) hands-on experience with Linux and shell

• scripting

• Strong experience working with external vendors is mandatory

• Strong experience with Ansible and Python

• Expert-level understanding of Azure DevOps and Azure, including:

Azure DevOps Pipelines (especially YAML pipelines) Azure DevOps Agents Azure DevOps Repos Azure Key Vault (AKV) Azure Container Registry (ACR) Azure Resource Manager (service connections, endpoints, service principals)

• Experience creating and maintaining deployment-focused CI/CD pipelines

• Strong experience working with Git (branching, tagging, commits, pull requests)

• Solid understanding of CI/CD methodologies and best practices

• Strong working knowledge of YAML and JSON, including variable definition and

• reuse

• Troubleshooting and working with different CNI/CSI is a nice to have