Azure DevOps Engineer

We are seeking a DevOps Engineer (Mid/Senior, 3+ years) to own CI/CD pipelines, Azure cloud infrastructure, and Kubernetes operations across multiple production environments, supporting digital platforms delivered to public sector and enterprise clients across Europe. The position is fully remote with the option of working from our premises in Athens, Crete or Thessaloniki.

Main Responsibilities and Tasks

• Design, build, and maintain CI/CD pipelines in Azure DevOps and Jenkins (YAML pipelines, Jenkinsfile, shared libraries) from commit to production;

• Manage and scale Kubernetes clusters on AKS across dev, staging, and production; author Helm charts; manage namespaces, RBAC, configmaps, secrets, and ingress;
• Provision and version infrastructure with Terraform/Bicep and manage configuration with Ansible across multiple Azure environments;
• Enforce security gates in pipelines — Trivy container scans, Checkov IaC policies, SonarQube SAST quality gates; manage secrets via HashiCorp Vault and Azure Key Vault;
• Own observability — Prometheus/Grafana dashboards, ELK/OpenSearch log aggregation, OpenTelemetry instrumentation; define and track SLOs and error budgets;
• Manage network configuration — DNS, VPN, ingress controllers, load balancers, and network policies; lead blameless post-mortems.

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, IT Engineering, or equivalent demonstrable experience;

• 3+ years of hands-on DevOps, Build & Release, or Cloud Engineering experience in production;
• Deep hands-on Azure: VMs, VNets, Storage, Azure AD, Load Balancers, AKS; Kubernetes day-2 operations; Docker image build, publish, and hardening;
• Azure DevOps (YAML pipelines, repos, artifacts, agent pools, branching policies) and Jenkins (Jenkinsfile, shared libraries); Git workflows (GitFlow or trunk-based);
• Terraform for infrastructure-as-code and Ansible for configuration management (playbooks, roles, inventories);
• Trivy, Checkov, and SonarQube as blocking pipeline gates; secrets management with HashiCorp Vault or Azure Key Vault;
• Scripting in Python and/or Bash/PowerShell; Prometheus + Grafana, ELK/OpenSearch; networking fundamentals (DNS, VPN, ingress, load balancers, network policies); English B2+.

Desired Qualifications

• Certifications: AZ-400, AZ-104 or AZ-305, CKA. Experience with GitHub Actions, Kustomize/advanced Helm, Bicep/ARM, OpenTelemetry, APM tooling (Dynatrace, Datadog, New Relic), service mesh (Istio/Linkerd), Nginx Ingress, cert-manager, external-dns.

• Multi-cloud exposure (AWS); database operations in pipelines (PostgreSQL, MySQL, Redis); message brokers (RabbitMQ, Kafka); high-availability, multi-region, or regulated-industry infrastructure.