DevOps Engineer (Azure)

About Lakeside Software: Lakeside Software is a premier, globally recognized leader in digital workplace observability and enterprise cloud analytics software systems. Driven by a mission to help major corporate organizations optimize operational reliability, Lakeside Software combines advanced technical monitoring, deep-tier data analytics, and real-time environment visibility to stabilize distributed production networks. Operating within high-velocity tech landscapes, Lakeside Software equips systems engineers, administrators, and developers with the predictive tools required to minimize system degradation, streamline application patching, and scale modern infrastructure securely.

Position Overview

We are seeking a highly analytical, troubleshooting-driven DevOps Engineer with strong, hands-on Microsoft Azure expertise to join our global engineering team in a full-time remote capacity. In this operationally critical infrastructure seat, you will focus heavily on diagnostic engineering, incident response, and performance stabilization across high-volume production cloud environments. Serving as a primary technical escalation point for multi-tier support tickets, outages, and silent alerts, you will actively maintain, upgrade, and configure scalable cloud architectures. This role demands a seasoned automation practitioner who thrives on identifying root causes, managing CI/CD deployment pipelines, and partnering cross-functionally within an Agile/Scrum framework to protect strict SLA/SLO baselines.

Key Responsibilities

• Azure Infrastructure Maintenance: Build, deploy, secure, and troubleshoot scalable cloud-native architectures utilizing the comprehensive Microsoft Azure enterprise product ecosystem.
• Infrastructure as Code Deployment: Formulate, refactor, and implement modular Infrastructure as Code (IaC) templates using Terraform, ARM templates, or Bicep scripts.
• CI/CD Automation Engineering: Manage, monitor, and optimize automated software deployment pipelines crossing between GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, and Bitbucket Pipelines.
• Incident Mitigation & Triaging: Monitor production systems actively, leading real-time responses to critical alerts, network degradations, application connectivity faults, and systemic cloud outages.
• Root Cause Analysis Ownership: Lead deep-dive investigative post-mortems, documenting systemic flaws, resolving tracking anomalies, and executing permanent corrective actions to ensure long-term cluster stability.
• Cloud Networking Administration: Map and troubleshoot advanced network pathways crossing Azure VNets, Network Security Groups (NSGs), Private Endpoints, peering adapters, and load balancers.
• Database & Directory Care: Assist in the administration, provisioning, and performance tuning of core SQL databases and multi-domain Active Directory environments.
• Observability Architecture Expansion: Calibrate metrics tracking profiles, log retention graphs, and dashboards leveraging Azure Monitor, Application Insights, and Grafana.

Required Skills & Qualifications

• 5+ years of verified professional history running IT operations, cloud systems management, software deployment automation, or quality infrastructure engineering.
• 3+ years of direct, hands-on technical architecture and execution experience operating natively within the Microsoft Azure cloud services stack.
• Demonstrated experience supporting high-volume live production environments governed by rigid SLA/SLO operational compliance metrics.
• Proven baseline proficiency managing source configurations with Git-based version control tools, primarily GitHub.
• Strong, practical capacity to compose automated maintenance and system configuration scripts written in PowerShell, Bash, or Python.
• Outstanding cross-functional collaboration and technical communication mechanics, with absolute fluency in verbal and written English.
• Location Context: 100% remote-first full-time operational framework tailored for qualified DevOps practitioners based permanently anywhere within India.
• On-Call Availability: Personal commitment to participate productively in scheduled on-call shifts, responding to critical off-hours production incident pages.

Preferred Strategic Indicators (Nice to Have)

• Possession of a formal Microsoft Certified: Azure Administrator Associate (AZ-104) credential.
• Prior containerization and microservices orchestration experience deploying applications inside Docker or Kubernetes clusters.
• Familiarity integrating or supporting modern AI/ML enterprise cloud architectures, including Azure OpenAI, Azure AI Foundry, or Azure AI Search routing.
• Familiarity with declarative GitOps architectures or high-scale platform engineering designs.

What We Offer

• The exceptional professional runway to take absolute operational ownership over the stabilization engine powering a leading enterprise cloud analytics node.
• Highly competitive, experience-calibrated compensation packages complemented by matching pensions and a comprehensive employee referral incentive program.
• Profound work-from-home remote parameters providing strong personal scheduling autonomy and complete geographical independence across India.
• Outstanding corporate time off allowances featuring a minimum of 20 baseline days of Annual Leave (scaling up to a maximum of 45 days), 12 dedicated Sick Leave days, and an extensive array of named and selectable Festival Days.
• Complete health security protection including 100% employer-paid Medical Insurance & Group Personal Accident (GPA) coverage, complemented by a corporate Wellness Programme and 3x CTC Group Life Insurance.