YOUR ROLE

As a Senior Azure CloudOps Engineer, you will be part of a specialized team responsible for enhancing the operational excellence of Azure-based customer platforms. You will design, automate, optimize, and support cloud operations across infrastructure, identity management, networking, observability, database operations, incident management, and platform reliability.

This is neither a pure development role nor a traditional support role. It is an end-to-end CloudOps position focused on production readiness, operational stability, and continuous improvement.

Your Responsibilities

- Design, implement, and continuously improve Azure operations for business-critical enterprise platforms.

- Gather, analyze, and evaluate operational and technical requirements across Azure services.

- Build and maintain automated infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code (Terraform).

- Design and implement Azure architectures for hybrid and cloud-native environments.

- Operate and optimize Azure services across:
- Networking
- Identity and Access Management (IAM)
- Governance
- Security and Compliance
- Platform Reliability

- Implement and maintain monitoring, logging, alerting, and observability solutions.

- Drive operational excellence for Azure App Services and Web Apps.

- Operate and support Azure Database for PostgreSQL, including:

- Backup and recovery procedures
- Performance tuning
- Availability and maintenance management
- Operational troubleshooting

- Support incident management, troubleshooting, root cause analysis, and service restoration in production environments.

- Create and maintain runbooks, operational documentation, support handover guides, and incident reports.





- Drive Azure cost transparency and optimization initiatives.

- Support integration with enterprise tools such as:

- New Relic
- Vault and other secrets management solutions

- Collaborate closely with lead developers, architects, DevOps engineers, QA engineers, product owners, and delivery teams.

- Contribute to the development of structured support processes and operational readiness for on-call environments.

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YOUR PROFILE

- Must-have Skills

- Proven experience as a Senior Azure Engineer, Azure Operations Engineer, or CloudOps Engineer in enterprise or business-critical environments.

- Strong expertise in
- Azure Networking
- Microsoft Entra ID
- Azure Governance
- Security & Compliance
- Hands-on experience with:
- Terraform
- PowerShell
- Azure CLI and/or Bash Scripting

- Strong experience in:

- Monitoring, Logging, and Alerting
- Incident Management and Troubleshooting
- Performance and Stability Optimization
- Azure App Services and Web Apps
- Azure Database for PostgreSQL
- Backup, Restore, and Disaster Recovery Procedures
- Cost Management and FinOps Fundamentals

- Practical knowledge of:

- DevOps Processes




- CI/CD Pipelines
- Release and Change Management Processes

- Strong analytical and problem-solving capabilities.

- High level of ownership and proactive working style.

- Ability to work effectively within distributed delivery teams.

- Strong documentation skills and structured communication approach.

Nice-to-have Skills

- Experience with New Relic integration.

- Experience with HashiCorp Vault or similar secrets management solutions.

- Experience with AKS (Azure Kubernetes Service) and Kubernetes.

- Microsoft Azure certifications such as:
- AZ-104
- AZ-305
- AZ-400

- Experience working in regulated enterprise environments or the utilities and energy sector.

What We Expect from You

- Understand that successful cloud engineering extends beyond implementation and includes reliable operations.
- Ability to work independently while aligning with architectural standards and customer expectations.

- Comfortable working within structured enterprise delivery environments.
- Strong written communication skills for tickets, technical reports, runbooks, and Root Cause Analysis (RCA) documentation.
- Take ownership of operational challenges and drive them through to resolution.

Why Join adesso

- Work on enterprise-scale Azure platforms with significant business impact.
- Be part of a specialized cloud engineering team.
- Contribute to production-grade cloud operations, not just project delivery.

- Collaborate in an international environment with strong engineering practices and standards.
- Grow your expertise across Azure architecture, automation, operations, and customer delivery.

📌 Senior Azure CloudOps Engineer (Italia)
🏢 Adesso
📍 Italia