Azure Infrastructure Devops Engineer with Agentic AI contract jobs

Job Title: Azure Infrastructure Engineer with Agentic AI

Location : Remote

 

About the Role

Wipro is seeking an Azure Infrastructure Engineer / DevOps specialist to provision, configure, and operate the cloud infrastructure underpinning a production Agentic AI platform on the Azure environment.  You will be responsible for designing AKS autoscaling, CI/CD pipelines, observability stack, and security controls ensuring the platform can scale to handle hundreds of thousands of requests in parallel with five-nines availability.

Responsibilities

• Provision and manage all Azure OCM infrastructure: AKS, Azure PostgreSQL, Event Hub (Kafka), Service Bus, Blob Storage, Container Registry, Key Vault, and API Gateway.
• Design and configure AKS pod-per-workflow autoscaling using KEDA (event-driven, queue depth and Event Hub lag) and HPA (CPU/memory and custom SLA metrics).
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions) for containerized Python services and infrastructure-as-code.
• Implement and manage the full observability stack: OpenTelemetry instrumentation, Dynatrace APM, Splunk log aggregation, and Azure Monitor / App Insights.
• Configure and enforce security controls: Azure Private Link, managed identities, RBAC, Key Vault secrets management, HIPAA-compliant encryption, and Zero Trust network model.
• Manage containerization: Docker image builds, Azure Container Registry, vulnerability scanning, and image lifecycle.
• Support performance and load testing infrastructure, validating autoscaling under burst load scenarios.
• Manage infrastructure for the parallel run and production cutover, including rollback capability.

Required Skills & Experience

• 5+ years infrastructure engineering / DevOps with 3+ years on Azure in production environments.
• AKS expertise: pod lifecycle, namespace management, KEDA, HPA, cluster autoscaler, multi-AZ deployment.
• Azure services: Event Hub (Kafka API), PostgreSQL, Service Bus, Key Vault, Container Registry, Private Link, API Gateway.
• CI/CD: GitHub Actions, Docker, Helm, infrastructure-as-code (Terraform or Bicep).
• Observability: OpenTelemetry, Dynatrace, Splunk, Azure Monitor.
• Azure security: managed identities, RBAC, Private Link, encryption at rest and in transit, Zero Trust.
• Experience migrating services from private cloud or on-premises to Azure with zero-downtime strategy.

Preferred Skills

• HIPAA or equivalent compliance experience; security controls for PHI-handling systems.
• Experience with Python-based microservices and containerized AI workloads on AKS.
• Azure certifications