Build, ship, and secure .NET backend applications on Azure with modern DevOps practices — containers, CI/CD pipelines, code quality gates, and cloud-native deployment patterns.
.NET Backend Engineers build APIs, services, and data layers with C#/.NET on Azure. Modern .NET engineers own the DevOps pipeline for their services — from containerization to cloud deployment and monitoring.
.NET Backend Engineers are among the most common developer roles in the enterprise market, particularly in Microsoft-aligned organizations using Azure. Increasingly, .NET developers are expected to own their application's deployment and monitoring pipeline.
"You build it, you run it" — .NET engineers who understand Docker, Kubernetes, and CI/CD are significantly more valuable than those who hand off to ops.
From version control through containers, Kubernetes, CI/CD, quality gates, security, and production monitoring — designed for modern .NET engineers.
Git branching, pull requests, code review workflows, and repository management — the starting point for every developer's DevOps journey.
Containerize .NET applications: multi-stage Dockerfiles for .NET, ASP.NET runtime images, Docker Compose for local development, container networking, and ACR publishing.
Deploy .NET services to Kubernetes: Deployments, Services, ConfigMaps, Secrets, resource requests/limits, health probes, and rolling updates for .NET microservices.
The Azure services .NET engineers use daily: App Services, Azure SQL, Cosmos DB, Key Vault, Service Bus, and the subscription and IAM model for deploying services securely.
Build a CI/CD pipeline for .NET: dotnet build, test, publish → Docker build → push to ACR → deploy to AKS with kubectl or Helm. OIDC auth for Azure, no stored credentials.
Enforce .NET code quality in CI: SonarQube analysis with dotnet-sonarscanner, quality gates for test coverage and bug detection, and PR decoration for code review feedback.
Enterprise delivery with Azure DevOps: YAML pipelines for .NET builds, Azure Artifacts for NuGet package management, and multi-stage release to AKS with approval gates.
Secure .NET applications on Azure: managed identities, Key Vault references in .NET config, RBAC for service principals, network security for AKS, and Azure AD authentication.
SAST and SCA for .NET: Veracode pipeline scan for critical security vulnerabilities, dependency risk management, and security-gated deployment workflows.
Instrument .NET services with prometheus-net, expose custom metrics, build Grafana dashboards for request rate, error rate, latency, and set SLO-based alerting.
Build a GitHub Actions pipeline that compiles a .NET 8 API → runs xUnit tests → SonarQube quality gate → Docker multi-stage build → pushes to ACR → deploys to AKS with Helm and zero downtime.
Build a .NET API that uses Managed Identity to authenticate to Azure SQL and Key Vault — no passwords in config, no service principal secrets in code, full RBAC-controlled access to Azure resources.
Instrument a .NET API with prometheus-net custom metrics (request count, latency histogram, error rate), wire it to Prometheus, and build a Grafana dashboard with alerting for the on-call team.