Azure Cloud Operations Engineer

1 day ago


Pune, Maharashtra, India Engel Machinery Full time ₹ 15,00,000 - ₹ 25,00,000 per year

Company Description

ENGEL, a global leader in the production of injection moulding machines and their automation, specializes in creating systems that manufacture plastic parts used in various everyday products such as cars, packaging, toothbrushes, smartphones, and toys. With nine production plants in Europe, North America, and Asia, and a presence in over 85 countries, ENGEL focuses on driving customer benefits through pioneering spirit and innovative strength. As a technology leader, ENGEL partners with renowned customers to foster a sustainably successful future.

Cloud Operations Engineer (ENGEL India IT Team)

Location: Viman Nagar, Pune, India (ENGEL India)

Team: Platform & Cloud Services (IT)

Employment type: Fulltime

Role Purpose

ENGEL is strengthening its global cloud operations capability. As a Cloud Operations Engineer, you will maintain, improve and monitor our Azure/Entra platforms, implement best practices, and drive continual service improvement (CSI) across reliability, security, cost and process. Youll work proactively and independently to spot issues and opportunities, then partner with service owners, developers, platform engineers and security to deliver structured, sustainable change within our ITIL/DevSecOps framework.

Responsibilities

Operate & Improve

  • Operate Microsoft Entra ID (Global Adminlevel expertise expected) and Azure (Global Owner/Billing Admin expertise), focusing on governance, identity, subscriptions, policy, RBAC, PIM, cost controls, monitoring and incident/problem/change.
  • Operate Azure Platform (Management Group / SubscriptionOwner Level), focussing on Policies, Governance, Monitoring and Operations
  • Continuously monitor platform health and security posture; create and maintain dashboards and builtin reports in the Azure portal; raise improvements proactively.
  • Plan and execute upgrades as vendors release updates; keep platform features and controls current and documented.

Best Practices, Policies & Processes

  • Define, codify and maintain best practices for Azure and Entra ID (naming, tagging, RBAC, PIM, identity standards, network baselines, backup/DR, logging/monitoring).
  • Contribute to developer guidelines for authentication/authorization (Entra ID app registrations, scopes/consent, token usage), CI/CD guardrails, and secure service connectivity.
  • Write and maintain Runbooks, Workbooks, Standard Operating Procedure checklists, and operational guidelines aligned to ITIL and DevSecOps.

CSI, FinOps & Security

  • Drive CSI cycles (review recommend implement measure document communicate).
  • Partner with FinOps to analyze consumption, optimize cost, and prepare periodic cost & efficiency reviews.
  • Work with the Security team to harden identity, access, posture and monitoring; adopt tooling such as Tenable and Splunk where appropriate.

Collaboration & Support

  • Collaborate with service owners, developers, platform services and security across Austria, Czech Republic, Germany, India and other ENGEL locations.
  • Provide targeted L2/L3 support for developers (identity, pipelines, environment access, policies) and contribute to project work rolling out new solutions.
  • Challenge assumptions constructively and help the team choose robust, scalable solutionsthen drive them to completion.

Required Skills & Experience

  • Communication: Very good English (written/spoken); ability to work across time zones/cultures; crisp stakeholder updates. Open and proactively communicate with Colleagues, follow up and drive Changes.
  • Security & process: Demonstrated DevSecOps mindset, Process oriented thinking; ITILaligned operation (incident/change/problem, CMDB discipline).
  • Ways of working: Proactive, security/stability/processoriented; comfortable with longrunning upgrades and repetitive review work (CSI cadence); critical thinker who questions decisions constructively and sees things through.
  • Azure administration (core) at tenant/subscription level: governance, policy, RBAC, PIM, cost management, monitoring, alerts, diagnostics, backup, disaster recovery, basic networking constructs (VNets/peering/VPN/LB concepts).
  • Microsoft Entra ID at Global Admin level: identity governance, app registrations, enterprise apps, conditional access (concepts), PIM, groups/roles, MFA, SSPR, B2B/B2E patterns.
  • Scripting & Automation: PowerShell, Azure CLI, REST APIs (Graph/management)
  • Tooling & delivery: Git and Azure DevOps (repos, pipelines, boards); strong documentation habits.
  • Kubernetes (AKS) Basics Operations, Patching, Upgrades, ACR Management

NicetoHave (Good to bring / nice to grow into)

  • Azure networking deeper knowledge (routing, DNS, private endpoints, WAF, Firewall).
  • Kafka, Databricks fundamentals.
  • Experience with Tenable, Splunk, Defender for Cloud/Identity, Purview, Sentinel.
  • Knowedge in Terraform, Ansible, GitHub Actions, KQL
  • .NET or Python
  • Infrastructure as Code at scale, configuration management, policyascode.
  • AWS Knowledge

DaytoDay Activities (Examples)

  • Review Entra/Azure alerts and dashboards, triage deviations, raise/implement improvements.
  • Use PowerShell/Azure CLI/REST to automate repetitive admin tasks, report generation and policy compliance checks.
  • Evaluate vendor updates and plan rollouts with change windows and rollback paths.
  • Run FinOps reviews (budget alerts, reservations, tag hygiene, cost anomalies) and propose optimizations.
  • Support developers with app registration, service principal, RBAC and pipeline guardrails; improve docs and templates as you go.
  • Prepare postimplementation reviews and CSI notes; publish outcomes and next steps.

Qualifications

  • Bachelors degree in Computer Science/Engineering or equivalent experience.
  • min 2 years in cloud operations/identity/platform engineering.
  • Relevant certifications are a plus (e.g., AZ104, AZ305, SC300, SC100).


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