Deployment Engineer

Job overview:

Roles & responsibilities:

• Plan, execute, and validate deployments across cloud (primarily Microsoft Azure) and on-premise environments, ensuring high reliability and minimal downtime.
• Own end-to-end release execution, including deployment package preparation, release coordination, post-deployment validation, and rollback readiness.
• Execute day-to-day deployment operations with a strong focus on environment stability, performance, and customer experience across UAT and production.
• Collaborate closely with Product, Engineering, QA, Security, and Cloud Operations teams to plan releases, identify risks, and resolve deployment issues quickly.
• Design, manage, and improve CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps/Git to enhance deployment speed, accuracy, and repeatability.
• Develop and maintain automation through PowerShell and/or Python scripting to reduce manual effort and deployment risk.
• Implement release engineering best practices such as blue/green deployments, canary releases, artifact and version management.
• Maintain environment parity between UAT and Production, managing approvals, change windows, and change management processes.
• Ensure deployments comply with security standards, access controls, patching, configuration management, and audit requirements.
• Troubleshoot and resolve deployment-related incidents and defects in real time, driving rapid recovery.
• Improve operational excellence by enhancing observability, reducing MTTR, and continuously strengthening SLAs and SLOs.
• Create, maintain, and continuously improve deployment documentation, runbooks, and operational procedures.
• Provide clear, timely stakeholder communication on deployment status, risks, and incidents

Key Skills:

• Azure Devops - Mostly on the release deployment not on CI
• Azure Infrastructure Paas
• AKS
• Troubleshooting Skills
• Windows Server
• IIS
• PowerShell
• Strong Communication
• Terraform