Sr. Azure DevOps Engineer

Role: Sr. Azure DevOps Engineer

Location: NJ or PA - Onsite

Duration: Long Term

Note  : W2 only 

Intermediate DevOps Engineer will help to build and support reliable, secure, and scalable delivery pipelines and infrastructure.  Automate environments, optimize CI/CD, codify infrastructure, improve observability, and partner closely with developers, QA, and security to accelerate releases while keeping systems stable and cost‑efficient.

Key Responsibilities

CI/CD & Release Engineering

• Design, maintain, and improve CI/CD pipelines (test, security scan, deploy, rollback).
• Implement trunk-based development, branch policies, and artifact/versioning strategy.
• Introduce progressive delivery patterns (blue/green, canary, feature flags) where applicable.

Infrastructure as Code (IaC)

• Build and manage cloud resources using IaC (Terraform, Bicep, CloudFormation, Pulumi).
• Standardize reusable modules and environment baselines across dev/test/prod.
• Enforce policy-as-code (e.g., OPA/Conftest, Sentinel) and tagging/guardrails.

Cloud & Container Platforms

• Operate workloads on AWS/Azure/Google Cloud Platform; manage networking, IAM, storage, and scaling.
• Deploy and run services on Kubernetes or container platforms (EKS/AKS/GKE), Helm/Kustomize.
• Manage registries, images, and base image hardening; implement least privilege runtime.

Observability & Reliability

• Implement and maintain monitoring, logging, and tracing (PrometheGrafana, CloudWatch, Azure Monitor, ELK/EFK, OpenTelemetry).
• Define and track SLOs/SLIs, error budgets, and alerting (noise reduction, runbooks).
• Participate in on-call with blameless incident response; drive postmortems and improvements.

Security & Compliance (DevSecOps)

• Integrate SAST/DAST/SCA into pipelines; manage secrets safely (Vault/Secrets Manager/KMS).
• Apply CIS/NIST-aligned baselines, IAM least privilege, and container/image scanning.
• Support audit needs with evidence from pipelines, IaC repos, and cloud posture tools.

Automation & Tooling

• Create automation and internal tools using Python/Bash/PowerShell/Go.
• Build self-service workflows (e.g., ephemeral environments, sandbox provisioning).
• Optimize cloud spend with cost visibility and right‑sizing/auto-scaling tactics.

Collaboration & Enablement

• Partner with developers, QA, and data/ML teams to remove delivery bottlenecks.
• Document standards, patterns, and runbooks; mentor juniors through PRs and pair sessions.
• Contribute to engineering governance (architecture reviews, RFCs, change advisory).

Required Qualifications

• 3–6 years in DevOps/SRE/Platform roles supporting production systems.
• Hands-on with at least one major cloud (AWS/Azure/Google Cloud Platform) and one container platform (Kubernetes or Docker‑based orchestration).
• Proven experience with CI/CD (e.g., GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, Azure DevOps) and artifact repositories.
• Strong IaC skills (Terraform or equivalent) and Git workflows (PRs, code reviews).
• Solid scripting in Python and/or Bash; familiarity with REST/CLI tooling.
• Experience with monitoring/logging stacks and alert tuning.
• Understanding of security fundamentals (IAM, secrets, encryption, SBOMs, image scanning).

Preferred Qualifications

• Helm/Kustomize, service meshes (Istio/Linkerd), and Ingress controllers.
• Exposure to serverless (Lambda/Functions), eventing (SQS/Kafka/Event Grid).
• Database platform familiarity (RDS/SQL Managed Instance, caching layers).
• Policy‑as‑code (OPA Gatekeeper), CSPM/CNAPP tools, or SOC2/ISO27001 environments.
• Performance tuning, capacity planning, and cost optimization.

Core Competencies

• Automation‑First Mindset – replaces toil with pipelines and code.
• Systems Thinking – balances app, infra, security, and cost constraints.
• Operational Excellence – metrics-driven, runbook-oriented, reliable.
• Collaboration – pragmatic, empathetic partner to dev and security teams.
• Ownership – drives incidents to closure and prevents repeats.