Azure DevOps Specialist

About the role

This foundational DevOps position is based in Canada and focuses on owning and evolving Azure cloud infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, and release processes. You will act as a key guardian of production systems, ensuring stability, scalability, security, and cost efficiency across all environments.

Key responsibilities

• Design, implement, and optimise Azure‑based infrastructure for development, staging, and production.
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps and related tooling.
• Monitor system performance, cost, resiliency and operational health across Azure services.
• Apply infrastructure‑as‑code, configuration management, and containerisation practices.
• Collaborate with engineering, product, and leadership teams on architecture decisions and delivery planning.
• Implement security, performance and cloud‑architecture best practices.
• Troubleshoot production issues using Azure monitoring tools and logs.
• Introduce automation and new DevOps practices to raise operational maturity.

Required profile

• 5+ years of DevOps or infrastructure engineering experience in cloud environments.
• 3+ years of hands‑on experience with Microsoft Azure, including production‑grade systems.
• Strong experience building and managing CI/CD pipelines and release processes.
• Proficiency with PowerShell for automation and system administration.
• Experience with Azure services such as Cosmos DB, Azure SQL, Event Hubs, Data Factory, App Configuration, and Azure Functions.
• Familiarity with Kubernetes, containerisation and orchestration tools (preferred).
• Azure DevOps Engineer or Azure Developer Associate certification is a strong plus.

Required skills

• Microsoft Azure
• Azure DevOps
• PowerShell
• CI/CD pipeline design
• Infrastructure‑as‑code
• Configuration management
• Kubernetes
• Containerisation
• Cosmos DB
• Azure SQL
• Event Hubs
• Data Factory
• App Configuration
• Azure Functions