About This Role
This IT Scrum Master role focuses on provisioning and managing Azure infrastructure, building deployment automation, and deploying and supporting API services on Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS). It is a hands-on engineering position requiring practical experience with Azure, Kubernetes, infrastructure as code, and CI/CD pipelines. The engineer will collaborate with development, architecture, security, and operations teams to deliver secure, reliable, and repeatable deployments across various environments, and will communicate release status and progress to stakeholders.
Responsibilities
- Execute production releases, validate service health after deployment, and maintain tested rollback procedures and release runbooks
- Configure and operate Cosmos DB databases, including container creation, index maintenance, RU allocation, and data copying
- Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines (Azure DevOps or GitHub Actions) to automate builds, testing, image publishing, and deployments across environments
- Configure Kubernetes deployments, services, ingress, health probes, resource requests/limits, and environment-specific application settings
- Configure secure API connectivity: DNS, TLS certificates, load balancing, private endpoints, and Azure API Management integration where required
- Implement least-privilege access, managed identities, workload identity, RBAC, and secure secrets management via Azure Key Vault
- Integrate automated tests, container image scanning, security checks, and approval gates into deployment pipelines
- Implement monitoring, logging, dashboards, and actionable alerts using Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, and Application Insights
- Troubleshoot failed deployments, pod/container issues, networking, authentication, and API performance problems; resolve root causes with development and operations teams
- Maintain environment consistency, deployment documentation, and change records per enterprise security and change-management requirements
- Partner with developers, architects, security, and platform teams to resolve infrastructure dependencies and prepare API services for production
- Improve deployment reliability, recovery time, resource utilization, and Azure costs through automation, capacity tuning, and operational improvements
- Encourage collaboration between teams, Product Management, Product Owners, System/Solution Architects, engineering, security, and operations
- Improve value flow through value streams by strengthening DevOps, Release on Demand, and Continuous Delivery Pipeline practices
- Partner with the Agile Program Management Office and delivery leadership to support program execution, operational excellence, reporting, and governance
- Provision, configure, and maintain Azure infrastructure: AKS, Azure Container Registry, VNets, subnets, NSGs, Key Vault, storage accounts
