Azure Devops + CKA certified + CICD

Job description

- Containers & Orchestration: Docker (hardened builds); Kubernetes/AKS (RBAC, HPA/KEDA, PDB); Helm (chart authoring, library charts) - IaC: Terraform (Azure — AKS, PostgreSQL, Service Bus, Key Vault, APIM); Atlantis/Terraform Cloud - CI/CD & GitOps: Jenkins, GitLab CI, GitHub Actions; ArgoCD/Flux; Trivy, Checkov, OWASP dep-check - Cloud: Azure — AKS, Service Bus, Elasticsearch Service, Data Factory/Synapse, Monitor, Log Analytics - Observability: Prometheus + Grafana; OpenTelemetry; ELK/OpenSearch; PagerDuty/Opsgenie - Messaging: Kafka (MSK/Confluent/Event Hubs) — topic mgmt, schema registry, consumer-lag monitoring; RabbitMQ ops - Security: Azure Key Vault / HashiCorp Vault; mTLS; Trivy/Snyk; CIS K8s benchmarks; FCA/PCI-DSS - Scripting: Python, Bash, Groovy for pipelines, runbooks, and automated incident response - Exposure to Jenkins. **Key Responsibilities** - Own and evolve CI/CD pipelines; implement blue/green, canary, and feature-flag progressive delivery. - Manage AKS clusters: node pool sizing, upgrade, namespace isolation, network policies, cost optimization. - Author and maintain Terraform modules for all Azure infrastructure; enforce IaC review and state lock. - Maintain Helm chart library; govern chart versioning aligned with squad delivery cadence. - Design and operate observability stack: Prometheus scrapers, per-squad Grafana dashboards, distributed tracing. - Manage Kafka clusters and Azure Service Bus queues for invoice event flows. - Drive security automation in pipelines: SAST, container scanning, secrets detection. - Maintain Elasticsearch cluster health; tune ILM policies for 52M+ invoice documents. - Participate in on-call rotation; lead post-incident reviews; maintain platform runbooks. **Requirements** - 5+ yrs DevOps / Platform Engineering / SRE on high-volume fintech or financial services platform. - Expert Kubernetes (CKA or equivalent) and Helm. - Strong Terraform — multi-module IaC for Azure or AWS. - Production Kafka operations and Elasticsearch cluster management. - CI/CD pipeline design (Jenkins / GitLab CI / GitHub Actions) and GitOps (ArgoCD or Flux). - Python (preferred) for operational automation. - Azure certs (AZ-104, AZ-400, CKA) advantageous; FCA/PCI-DSS cloud security understanding essential. - Good to have: Exposure to GitLabs, GitHub and Github Actions