AI DevOps and Cloud Infrastructure Engineer

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At Crowe, you can build a meaningful and rewarding career. With real flexibility to balance work with life moments, you're trusted to deliver results and make an impact. We embrace you for who you are, care for your well-being, and nurture your career. Everyone has equitable access to opportunities for career growth and leadership. Over our 80-year history, delivering excellent service through innovation has been a core part of our DNA across our audit, tax, and consulting groups. That's why we continuously invest in innovative ideas, such as AI-enabled insights and technology-powered solutions, to enhance our services. Join us at Crowe and embark on a career where you can help shape the future of our industry.

Job Description:

About C3 India Delivery Centre LLP (formerly known as Crowe Horwath IT Services LLP) AI Transformation:

Everything we do is about making the future of human work more purposeful. We do this by leveraging state-of-the-art technologies, modern architectures, and industry experts to create AI-powered solutions that transform the way our clients do business.

The new AI Transformation team will build on C3 India Delivery Centre LLP's established AI foundation, furthering the capabilities of our Applied AI / Machine Learning team. By combining Generative AI, Machine Learning and Software Engineering, this team empowers our clients to transform their business models through AI, irrespective of their current AI adoption stage.

As a member of AI Transformation, you will help distinguish C3 India in the market and drive the firm's technology and innovation strategy. The future is powered by AI, come build it with us.

About the Team

• We invest in expertise. You'll have the time, space, and support to go deep in your projects and build lasting technical and strategic mastery. You'll work with developers, product stakeholders, and project managers as a trusted leader and domain expert.

• We believe in continuous growth. Our team is committed to professional development and knowledge-sharing.

We are seeking an experienced Azure Cloud Engineer to own our infrastructure and DevOps lifecycle. You'll play a critical role in designing, scaling, and securing our cloud-native architecture, which supports distributed microservices and AI-driven business automation workflows. If you're passionate about containerization, automation, and modern cloud networking, this role is for you.

Key Responsibilities

• Design and manage Azure-native infrastructure to support a multi-tenant SaaS application

• Build and maintain containerized deployments (Kubernetes/AKS)

• Own CI/CD workflows (build, test, promote) across multiple environments

• Implement network-level security policies and service-to-service communication patterns

• Configure scalable, observable systems using modern monitoring/logging stacks

• Collaborate with engineers to optimize performance and scalability of distributed services

• Conduct performance tuning, cost optimization, and capacity planning across cloud resources and deployments

• Participate in architectural discussions, design reviews, and security assessments for cloud infrastructure

Required Skills

• 8+ years of experience in cloud engineering, DevOps, or infrastructure roles.

• Deep expertise with Microsoft Azure, including services like:

  • Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)

  • Azure VNETs, Private Endpoints, and NSGs

  • Azure Key Vault, Blob Storage, App Gateway

• Experience building CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, or equivalent

• Strong grasp of containerization and orchestration with Docker and Kubernetes

• Proficiency in Infrastructure as Code: Terraform or Bicep

• Working knowledge of distributed tracing, monitoring, and alerting

• Experience designing secure, highly available, zero-trust cloud networks

• Optimize resource utilization and cost-efficiency across infrastructure environments

• Strong familiarity with managing secrets, identities, and service principals across Azure services

• Knowledge of networking, DNS, load balancing, and secure API exposure in Azure environments

• Led end‑to‑end engagement leadership and program delivery oversight for complex, multi‑workstream initiatives; established governance and risk controls, coordinated cross‑functional teams and vendors, and managed C‑level relationships and steering committees to drive alignment, rapid decisions, and on‑time, on‑budget outcomes

• Developed and scaled service offerings and go‑to‑market strategies, expanded the practice into new capabilities and markets, and improved revenue, margin, and client retention through talent development, delivery excellence, and reusable IP and accelerators

• Built and led a high‑performing capability team; recruited and hired top talent, mentored and coached career progression, established performance goals and conducted evaluations, and directed resource allocation and capacity planning across programs to optimize utilization, delivery quality, and velocity

Preferred Skills

• Familiarity with zero-downtime deploy patterns (e.g., blue-green, canary)

• Scripting skills in Bash or Python for automation

• Microsoft certifications such as Azure Administrator Associate, DevOps Engineer Expert, or Solutions Architect Expert

We expect the candidate to uphold Crowe's values of Care, Trust, Courage, and Stewardship. These values define who we are. We expect all of our people to act ethically and with integrity at all times.

Our Benefits:
At Crowe, we know that great people are what makes a great firm. We value our people and offer employees a comprehensive benefits package. Learn more about what working at Crowe can mean for you

How You Can Grow:
We will nurture your talent in an inclusive culture that values diversity. You will have the chance to meet on a consistent basis with your Career Coach that will guide you in your career goals and aspirations. Learn more about where talent can prosper

More about Crowe:

C3 India Delivery Centre LLP formerly known as Crowe Howarth IT Services LLP is a wholly owned subsidiary of Crowe LLP (U.S.A.), a public accounting, consulting and technology firm with offices around the world. Crowe LLP is an independent member firm of Crowe Global, one of the largest global accounting networks in the world. The network consists of more than 200 independent accounting and advisory firms in more than 130 countries around the world.

Crowe does not accept unsolicited candidates, referrals or resumes from any staffing agency, recruiting service, sourcing entity or any other third-party paid service at any time. Any referrals, resumes or candidates submitted to Crowe, or any employee or owner of Crowe without a pre-existing agreement signed by both parties covering the submission will be considered the property of Crowe, and free of charge.