Senior Azure DevOps Engineer - Only W2

Senior Azure DevOps Engineer

Remote (US)

Job Type: W2 Contract

Primary skills:

• Azure
• Bash
• CI/CD
• Containerization
• Kubernetes
• Monitoring and Observability
• Powershell

Preferred:

• SRE
• Terraform

Summary:

• Designs, implements, and optimizes DevOps practices, CI/CD pipelines, deployment automation, and cloud-native delivery platforms.
• Enables secure, reliable, and efficient software delivery by improving development workflows, release processes, infrastructure automation, platform reliability, and operational resilience across enterprise environments.

Responsibilities:

• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines supporting enterprise application delivery and release management processes.
• Engineer deployment automation frameworks that improve release quality, consistency, scalability, and efficiency.
• Administer container platforms, Kubernetes environments, and supporting orchestration technologies.
• Enable development teams by improving build, test, deployment, and release workflows.
• Integrate automated testing, validation, security scanning, and compliance controls into delivery pipelines.
• Monitor platform health, deployment performance, and application reliability metrics to identify improvement opportunities.
• Resolve deployment failures, application delivery issues, and platform incidents through troubleshooting and root cause analysis.
• Implement DevOps best practices that improve software delivery speed, operational stability, and engineering productivity.
• Collaborate with cloud, infrastructure, security, and application teams to deliver scalable and resilient technology solutions.
• Develop automation scripts and tooling using modern scripting and programming languages to reduce manual effort and operational risk.
• Maintain deployment standards, release procedures, operational documentation, and support runbooks.
• Evaluate emerging DevOps technologies and recommend improvements that enhance platform capabilities and software delivery processes.
• Mentor engineers and team members on DevOps methodologies, automation frameworks, and platform engineering practices.
• Participate in operational support activities and serve as an escalation resource for critical deployment and platform issues.

Technical Qualifications:

DevOps & CI/CD

• 7+ years of experience in DevOps, software engineering, infrastructure engineering, or platform engineering roles.
• Strong experience designing, implementing, and supporting CI/CD pipelines and release management processes.
• Experience with Azure DevOps, GitHub, GitHub Actions, or comparable DevOps platforms.
• Strong understanding of source control, branching strategies, release management, and deployment methodologies.

Containers & Cloud-Native Technologies

• Experience administering container platforms and orchestration technologies, including Kubernetes.
• Strong understanding of containerization concepts and application deployment patterns.
• Experience supporting cloud-native application environments and distributed systems.

Automation & Scripting

• Strong proficiency with PowerShell, Python, Bash, or similar scripting languages.
• Experience developing automation solutions that improve deployment efficiency and operational consistency.
• Familiarity with Infrastructure as Code concepts and deployment automation frameworks.

Monitoring & Reliability

• Experience implementing monitoring, logging, observability, and alerting solutions.
• Strong troubleshooting and root cause analysis capabilities across application and platform environments.
• Experience supporting highly available and resilient production systems.

Security & Compliance

• Knowledge of DevSecOps principles and secure software delivery practices.
• Experience integrating security controls, vulnerability scanning, and compliance requirements into deployment pipelines.
• Understanding of identity management, secrets management, and access control practices within DevOps environments.