Senior Devops Engineer - Cloud (Azure)

Allegis Group - Wilmington, DE

Full-time - Senior

Wilmington, DE

10,001+ employees

Administrative and Support Services

About the position

The Senior DevOps Engineer will lead the evolution and maintenance of Azure environments and services, focusing on creating and supporting development and infrastructure pipelines. This role aims to minimize human interaction with production systems, enabling reproducibility across builds and facilitating on-demand service deployment for development teams. The engineer will establish technical standards, create tools, and build cloud ecosystems that promote innovation and enablement.

Responsibilities

• Drive innovation by delivering Azure-based projects, including migrations, CICD pipelines, and managing containers.
• Work with development and other DevOps teams to build technical solutions that leverage established patterns for Azure.
• Establish and implement cost containment practices to balance developer productivity with consumption-based cost challenges.
• Help evolve Azure solutions to a self-service deployment model.
• Rationalize technology and tool recommendations.
• Integrate solutions into the larger technical ecosystem to maximize impact and value.
• Identify pattern and standard gaps for Azure development and administrative services and determine options to address them.
• Research, develop, and drive the adoption of cloud-based design patterns and standards aligned with Azure best practices.
• Publish thorough documentation of Azure standards/patterns and drive adoption across business and technical areas.
• Troubleshoot incidents, identify root causes, and implement preventative measures for Azure infrastructure, tools, and services.
• Manage and maintain Azure environments in accordance with corporate, security, and compliance standards.
• Develop and implement Azure service health and operational metrics, including performance, availability, capacity utilization, redundancy, and cost.
• Participate in prioritization and other DevOps work planning activities.

Requirements

• Expert level experience in Terraform, Azure, Kubernetes, and Cloud technologies.
• Strong background in DevOps practices and automation.
• Experience with Istio, AKS, pipelines, GitOps, ArgoCD, and Argo Workflows.

Nice-to-haves

• Ownership and consultative mindset with the ability to drive vision and generate new ideas.
• Experience with data science, data platforms, and data teams.
• Improving monitoring and automation, preferably with Dynatrace.
• Development experience, particularly with microservices and RESTful APIs.

Benefits

• Equal opportunity employer
• Collaborative work environment
• Access to AI tools for job enhancement