# Microsoft Azure Developer

**Company:** [Avacone](https://jobs.workable.com/companies/kvak1oQzkZ4HB1vYKYku9o.md)
**Location:** Basel, Switzerland
**Workplace:** hybrid
**Employment type:** Full-time
**Department:** Switzerland

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## Description

## About the role

We are looking for a Microsoft Azure Developer to design, build, and maintain cloud applications and integrations on Microsoft Azure. You will develop APIs, background services, and event-driven workflows, and work with product, architecture, security, and platform teams to deliver and operate them in production.

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Key responsibilities

-   Design, develop, and test cloud applications, REST APIs, and integrations using services such as Azure Functions, Azure App Service, Azure Service Bus, and Azure API Management.
-   Translate business requirements into technical designs and contribute to architecture decisions, effort estimates, and code reviews.
-   Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines with Azure DevOps or GitHub Actions, and automate Azure resource provisioning using Bicep or Terraform.
-   Implement secure authentication and authorization using Microsoft Entra ID and managed identities. Use Azure Key Vault to manage secrets and certificates.
-   Instrument applications with logs, metrics, and traces using Azure Monitor and Application Insights. Diagnose production issues and implement fixes that address their root causes.
-   Improve application reliability, performance, and cost efficiency, and maintain technical documentation and operational runbooks.

## Requirements

## Required qualifications

-   Hands-on experience developing, deploying, and supporting applications on Microsoft Azure in production.
-   Proficiency in at least one backend development stack, such as C# and .NET, Java, Python, or TypeScript and Node.js.
-   Experience designing REST APIs, integrating systems through asynchronous messaging, and working with relational or NoSQL databases.
-   Working knowledge of cloud security fundamentals, including role-based access control, managed identities, and secrets management.
-   Experience with Git, automated testing, CI/CD, and infrastructure as code.
-   Ability to troubleshoot distributed applications using logs, metrics, and traces.
-   Clear communication skills and the ability to work with technical and non-technical stakeholders.

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Preferred qualifications

-   Experience with Azure Container Apps, Azure Kubernetes Service, or Docker.
-   Familiarity with Azure SQL Database, Azure Cosmos DB, or Azure Storage.
-   Experience designing for resilience, including retry policies, idempotent message processing, and dead-letter handling.
-   Experience with performance testing, production incident response, or cloud cost optimization.