About this role
******DevOps Engineer
Location: Baku, Azerbaijan
Type: Full-time
Company: DRL LLC
About eiGroup
At eiGroup, we believe ideas can change industries - but only if they are nurtured with structure, science, and courage.
We’re an R&D and Innovation Venture Studio that transforms human ingenuity into technological value that scales.
Our ecosystem brings together researchers, engineers, and creators who turn complex challenges into scalable products - from subsurface imaging to AI-driven analytics, from remote sensing to digital transformation.
Our ventures are built in-house, born from research, and grown into independent companies.
Together, we’re shaping how innovation takes root in this region - and how it reaches the world.
What You'll Do
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Own CI/CD across Azure Pipelines and GitLab CI: YAML pipelines, multi-stage builds, environment promotion, approvals, artifact and container publishing, shared templates so each team isn't reinventing its own build
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Provision and run our Kubernetes clusters, including standing up new ones from scratch with Rancher: workloads, ingress, secrets, resource limits, autoscaling, rollout and rollback strategy, Helm charts, version upgrades and etcd backups
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Own our Azure estate — App Services, compute, networking, storage, Key Vault, managed identities — alongside self-hosted services running on our own infrastructure, including cost hygiene and right-sizing
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Introduce Infrastructure as Code (Terraform or Bicep) from a largely manual starting point: reusable modules, state management, real parity between environments
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Build and maintain monitoring and alerting: metrics collection, Grafana dashboards the teams actually use, centralised logging, and alerts that fire on real problems rather than noise
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Own production: releases, incident response, root cause, backup and restore drills, and an on-call rotation designed to stay quiet
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Manage secrets and access properly (Key Vault, managed identities, Entra ID, least-privilege RBAC) and put secret, dependency and image scanning into the pipelines
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Work with the Project Managers across our ventures: take in infrastructure requests, prioritise them honestly against each other, and propose the cheaper version when there is one
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Plan and report your work in Azure DevOps — break requests into tasks, create your own where the work originates with you, keep status current, and raise blockers early enough that PMs can plan around them
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What You Bring
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3+ years in DevOps, SRE or platform engineering, with real production ownership
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Strong hands-on Linux — comfortable in the shell, able to debug a failing service without a UI
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Proven CI/CD experience with Azure Pipelines, GitLab CI or equivalent, including pipelines other teams depend on
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Kubernetes in production: deployments, services, ingress, config and secrets, RBAC, autoscaling — and the ability to diagnose why a pod won't start or a rollout is stuck. Helm for packaging. You have built a cluster from scratch, not only deployed into one
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Solid Docker fundamentals: multi-stage builds, image size, base image hygiene
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Microsoft Azure: compute, networking, storage, Key Vault, managed identities, Entra ID, Azure Monitor
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Infrastructure as Code with Terraform or Bicep — nice to have
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Scripting in Bash plus Python or PowerShell — enough to automate a task properly instead of documenting a manual one
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Networking fundamentals: DNS, TLS and certificates, reverse proxies, load balancing, VNets, subnets, NSGs, firewall rules
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Databases from the operations side: backups and tested restores, connection pooling, working with developers on a slow query
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Sound security instincts — you notice the exposed secret, the public endpoint, the permission nobody needed
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Able to serve multiple teams with competing requests, work independently, estimate credibly and flag risk early
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Good written and verbal communication in English
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Our benefits include:**
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Medical insurance (family coverage)
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Flexible working hours
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Wellness program
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Childcare support
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Company-provided lunch