Azure App Modernization and DevOps Engineer

  • Posted 4 hours ago | Updated 4 hours ago

Overview

Remote
$100,000 - $110,000
Full Time

Skills

Azure
App Services

Job Details

Azure App Modernization & DevOps

Azure Platforms; App Service; APIM; Microservices Architecture; DevOps- GitHub and Azure DevOps, Containers - Docker; GitHub Copilot; AKS; ACA

Focus: App Service | APIM | Microservices | GitHub | AKS | ACA | Containers

Overview:

We re looking for a Customer Engineer (CE) who lives and breathes modern app development, cloud-native architecture, and DevOps excellence. This role centers on helping enterprise customers build, deploy, and scale applications using Azure App Services, API Management, microservices, and container platforms like AKS and Azure Container Apps (ACA).

You ll also guide development teams in integrating AI-driven productivity tools like GitHub Copilot while shaping secure and efficient CI/CD workflows in GitHub and Azure DevOps environments.

This is a highly strategic and technical role, where you ll collaborate with customer leadership, architects, and developers to unlock business agility and innovation through modern cloud-native practices.

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What You ll Do:

Guide customers through the design and deployment of modern application architectures on Azure using App Services, APIM, and microservices.

Help teams adopt DevOps best practices with GitHub and Azure DevOps, optimizing pipelines for scalability, security, and automation.

Enable containerization strategies using Docker, Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), and Azure Container Apps (ACA) for elastic, resilient services.

Guide clients to help them integrate GitHub Copilot to accelerate development cycles, improve code quality, and drive AI-assisted developer workflows.

Provide insights to assist with API strategy and management, leveraging Azure API Management (APIM) for secure and scalable exposure of services.

Provide architectural guidance and hands-on support during cloud-native transformations and app re-platforming efforts.

Own process governance across engagements, ensuring alignment with Microsoft best practices and enterprise scalability needs.

Collaborate cross-functionally to remove technical blockers and deliver on high-impact modernization initiatives.

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Key Skills & Technologies:

Azure Application Services: App Services, APIM, Logic Apps, Azure Functions (preferred).

Architecture & Dev Practices: Microservices, 12-Factor App principles, Domain-Driven Design (DDD), RESTful API design.

Containers & Orchestration: Docker, AKS (Azure Kubernetes Service), ACA (Azure Container Apps), Helm.

DevOps & CI/CD: GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, YAML pipelines, Infrastructure as Code (IaC) with Bicep/Terraform.

AI-Enhanced Dev: GitHub Copilot integration, secure AI-assisted development, and coding at scale.

Security & Governance: Azure RBAC, workload identity, managed identities, secrets management.

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Ideal Candidate Will Have:

5+ years in software engineering or cloud architecture roles, with a focus on Azure-based solutions.

Proven experience modernizing monolithic apps into microservices and/or container-based architectures.

Hands-on knowledge of GitHub, Azure DevOps, and CI/CD pipeline engineering.

Strong customer engagement skills, including the ability to present to both technical and business stakeholders.

Experience delivering cloud-native solutions across the entire app lifecycle from architecture and DevOps to scaling and support.

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