Cloud Operations Specialist
We are seeking an experienced Cloud Operations Specialist to design, implement, and maintain our Data Lake environment.
* Azure DevOps pipelines, Git repositories, artifact management
* Terraform, Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) governance patterns
* Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2, hierarchical namespace, Access Control Lists (ACLs)
* Azure Data Factory, Databricks, Synapse, Spark
* Azure Functions, Key Vault, networking (Virtual Networks, private endpoints, firewalls)
* Monitoring stacks: Log Analytics, Application Insights, Azure Monitor
* Scripting: PowerShell, Python, Bash
* Security controls: Role-Based Access Control (RBAC), managed identities, secrets management, encryption
The ideal candidate should have experience with:
* Ci/cd patterns, release strategy design, automated testing frameworks
* Jira, Confluence, ServiceNow
We are looking for someone who can:
* Architect and maintain continuous integration/continuous deployment (ci/cd) pipelines for data lake components
* Implement infrastructure-as-code with Terraform
* Enforce branching discipline, artifact integrity, automated testing, and controlled release gates
* Automate environment provisioning, ACL management, key rotation, lifecycle policies, and cluster configuration
* Integrate devops processes with enterprise security
* Build observability: logging, metrics, alerting, dashboards
* Maintain backup, restoration, disaster-recovery patterns and test them for reliability
* Eliminate configuration drift through standardized templates and environment baselines
* Maintain and optimize agents, service connections, and deployment runtimes
* Perform incident response and root-cause analysis, document systemic fixes
* Deliver reusable automation modules for data engineering teams
* Optimize workload performance and cost within the data lake environment
* Ensure compliance with governance, audit requirements, and data protection mandates
* Drive continuous reduction of manual operational work through automation