Associate- Azure Infrastructure Quality Engineer (Sofia, BG)

Reliability | Resilience | Infrastructure Quality

Engineer reliability into every release.

We’re looking for a Azure Infrastructure Quality Engineer who thrives at the intersection of cloud, infrastructure, and automation. In this role, you’ll validate platform changes across data centres, branch offices, and Azure environments, ensuring every deployment meets the highest standards for uptime, resilience, and performance.

You’ll work closely with DevOps, Cloud, and Infrastructure teams to test, verify, and harden platforms — from IaC deployments and smoke tests to performance validation and failover assurance. This is a role for someone who believes quality is engineered, not inspected in.

What you’ll be doing

• Plan and execute testing for infrastructure changes, configuration updates, and cloud deployments
• Validate both functional and non-functional requirements, including performance, resilience, and availability
• Collaborate with DevOps and Platform teams to:
• Verify Infrastructure as Code (IaC) deployments
• Perform post-deployment smoke testing
• Identify and document reliability risks
• Create and maintain automation scripts, test checks, and validation playbooks
• Investigate deployment or environment defects, providing clear diagnostics and supporting remediation
• Retest fixes with a focus on latency, uptime, and failover behaviour
• Participate in sprint planning and reviews, raising risks and recommending testing scope for:
• Cloud services
• Network resilience
• Availability and performance improvements

What we’re looking for

• Experience in Quality Engineering for infrastructure and platforms, not just applications
• Strong understanding of cloud, networking, and infrastructure fundamentals
• Experience validating platforms using monitoring and observability tools (e.g. Prometheus, Grafana)
• Hands-on experience with performance testing tools such as JMeter or Locust
• Familiarity with IaC-driven environments and deployment pipelines
• Experience testing enterprise technologies such as, You won’t be expected to be an expert in every technology listed:
• Cisco LAN, WAN, and WiFi
• VMware, NetApp, Cisco UCS
• Windows and Linux platforms
• SolarWinds and Zerto
• Awareness of NIST CSF and EU DORA requirements

Certifications & experience

• Holds or is working toward Azure or AWS Architect certification (or equivalent experience)
• Deep experience across multi-cloud, container platforms, and advanced networking is highly valued

Why join us?

• Play a critical role in ensuring platform resilience and reliability
• Influence how quality is embedded into DevOps and infrastructure delivery
• Work across complex, enterprise-scale environments
• Be trusted to raise risks, challenge assumptions, and improve outcomes
• Help build platforms that are robust by design

What is it like to work at the EBRD?

Our agile and innovative approach is what makes life at the EBRD a unique experience! You will be part of a pioneering and diverse international organisation, and use your talents to make a real difference to people's lives and help shape the future of the regions we invest in. 

We offer hybrid and flexible working arrangements and believe we operate at our best when collaborating 3 days a week in person (minimum).

The EBRD environment provides you with:

• Varied, stimulating and engaging work that gives you an opportunity to interact with a wide range of experts in the financial, political, public and private sectors across the regions we invest in;
• A working culture that embraces inclusion and celebrates diversity;
• An environment that places sustainability, equality and digital  transformation at the heart of what we do.

Diversity is one of the Bank’s core values which are at the heart of everything it does.  A diverse workforce with the right knowledge and skills enables connection with our clients, brings pioneering ideas, energy and innovation. The EBRD staff is characterised by its rich diversity of nationalities, cultures and opinions and we aim to sustain and build on this strength. As such, the EBRD seeks to ensure that everyone is treated with respect and given equal opportunities and works in an inclusive environment. The EBRD encourages all qualified candidates who are nationals of the EBRD member countries to apply regardless of their racial, ethnic, religious and cultural background, gender, sexual orientation or disabilities.  As an inclusive employer, we promote flexible working and expecting our employee to attend the office 50% of their working time.

Please note, that due to the high volume of applications received, we regret to inform you that we are unable to provide detailed feedback to candidates who have not been shortlisted (for further consideration).