DevOps Engineer – Azure Specialist for AI‑Driven Retail

About the role

We are seeking a DevOps Engineer with deep expertise in Microsoft Azure to design, build, and optimise cloud‑native platforms that power AI‑driven retail solutions. You will collaborate with AI engineers, data scientists, developers and stakeholders to deliver secure, scalable, high‑performance applications.

Key responsibilities

• Design, review and contribute to solution architectures for AI‑focused applications on Azure.
• Act as technical lead within an Agile Scrum team, supporting planning, estimation, risk mitigation and continuous improvement.
• Guide engineering teams in adopting DevOps, coding, security and quality best practices.
• Develop new services, automation tools and proof‑of‑concepts to meet business objectives.
• Build, maintain and optimise Infrastructure as Code (IaC) solutions and CI/CD pipelines.
• Oversee deployment processes, collaborate with Quality Engineering, and manage release documentation.
• Monitor, maintain and continuously improve reliability, performance and security of cloud environments.

Required profile

• Strong hands‑on experience with Microsoft Azure cloud services.
• Proven track record in Agile Scrum environments, including estimation and risk management.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management abilities.
• Problem‑solving mindset capable of navigating complex technical challenges.

Required skills

• Microsoft Azure (Virtual Networking, DNS, Identity & Access Management, Azure Container Apps, AKS, App Services, Application Gateway, WAF, Azure API Management)
• Infrastructure as Code – Terraform
• CI/CD pipelines – Azure DevOps Pipelines
• Source control – GitHub
• Microservices deployment and monitoring
• Agile tools – Jira