Cloud Infrastructure Automation Specialist
This is a senior-level position responsible for designing and implementing cloud-based infrastructure automation solutions.
* Azure DevOps pipelines, Git repositories, artifact management
* Terraform, IaC governance patterns
* Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2, hierarchical namespace, ACL models
* Azure Data Factory, Databricks, Synapse, Spark
* Azure Functions, Key Vault, networking (VNets, private endpoints, firewalls)
* Monitoring stacks: Log Analytics, Application Insights, Azure Monitor
* Scripting: PowerShell, Python, Bash
* Security controls: RBAC, managed identities, secrets management, encryption
* CI/CD patterns, release strategy design, automated testing frameworks
* Jira, Confluence, ServiceNow
Key Responsibilities
The ideal candidate will have experience with cloud infrastructure, automation, and continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD) tools.
Responsibilities include:
* Architect and maintain CI/CD pipelines for data lake components
* Implement infrastructure-as-code with Terraform for provisioning storage accounts, networking, compute, identity, and security layers
* 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 for pipelines and platform components
* 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