DevOps Engineer

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Alabama, +28 more states.

📋 Description

• Design, implement, oversee, and optimize cloud infrastructure, primarily utilizing Microsoft Azure.

• Create and uphold infrastructure-as-code, configuration management, and automation solutions.

• Develop reusable tools and frameworks to enhance operations, minimize manual tasks, and boost engineering productivity.

• Enhance the reliability, scalability, performance, security, and cost-effectiveness of production environments.

• Design, implement, and manage secure, scalable CI/CD pipelines and automated deployment processes.

• Collaborate with development and QA teams to enhance release efficiency, deployment reliability, and application performance.

• Establish and uphold deployment standards, operational readiness requirements, and release management practices.

• Participate in Agile Scrum development activities, including technical planning, implementation, testing, and deployment.

• Implement and improve monitoring and observability solutions, including centralized logging, metrics, alerting, dashboards, and distributed tracing.

• Establish and maintain service-level indicators (SLIs) and service-level objectives (SLOs).

• Troubleshoot complex production issues, perform root-cause analysis, and implement lasting corrective measures.

• Identify and proactively mitigate infrastructure, application performance, and operational risks.

• Support incident response and the ongoing improvement of production systems.

• Lead or assist in cloud, application, database, and infrastructure migration initiatives.

• Develop migration plans, automation scripts, validation procedures, rollback strategies, and post-migration monitoring.

• Collaborate with engineering teams to modernize infrastructure and enhance system architecture.

⛳️ Requirements

• 5+ years of professional experience in DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), platform engineering, cloud engineering, or a closely related field.

• 3+ years of experience in designing, implementing, and maintaining CI/CD pipelines and automated deployment processes.

• 3+ years of hands-on experience deploying, operating, and troubleshooting applications in cloud environments, preferably Microsoft Azure.

• Familiarity with infrastructure-as-code and configuration management tools such as Terraform, Azure Bicep, ARM templates, or Ansible.

• Experience in implementing monitoring and observability solutions, including logging, metrics, alerting, dashboards, and distributed tracing.

• Proficient in scripting and automation using one or more languages such as Python, PowerShell, Bash, JavaScript, TypeScript, or Node.js.

• Experience in supporting cloud, application, infrastructure, or database migrations.

• Working knowledge of SQL databases and the processes for database deployment or migration.

• Experience supporting high-volume, highly available, multi-tier enterprise applications.

• Understanding of cloud security principles, identity and access management, secrets management, and vulnerability remediation.

• Experience utilizing AI-assisted engineering tools for troubleshooting, automation, development, or documentation.

• Advanced experience with Microsoft Azure infrastructure, cloud services, and deployment automation.

• Familiarity with containerization and orchestration technologies, including Docker, Kubernetes, or Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS).

• Experience in designing enterprise-scale CI/CD pipelines, deployment strategies, and release management processes.

• Advanced knowledge of observability platforms, distributed tracing, alert optimization, and service reliability practices.

• Experience leading complex cloud migrations, infrastructure modernization, or platform transformation initiatives.

• Experience developing reusable infrastructure modules, automation frameworks, or engineering standards.

• Familiarity with NoSQL databases, messaging platforms, or event-driven architectures.

• Experience using AI agents or AI-enabled automation to streamline engineering workflows.

• Advanced technical education, professional certifications, or equivalent specialized training (preferred).

• Must reside in an approved U.S. location.

🏝️ Benefits

• Medical insurance.

• Dental insurance.

• Vision insurance.

• Life insurance.

• 401(k).

• PTO.

• Sick leave.