Senior Azure DevOps Engineer
Summary
A senior DevOps engineer who designs, secures, and automates scalable Azure infrastructure and CI/CD pipelines for a distributed e-commerce platform. Day to day: building Elastic-based observability, hardening security (OWASP, penetration testing), and supporting client deployments with Kubernetes, Terraform, and Azure DevOps tooling.
We are seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer who is passionate about CI/CD automation, security automation, security best practices, zero-downtime deployment, and observable cloud infrastructure. You will interact with stakeholders across Engineering, QA, DevOps, Operations, and Product Management. If you enjoy working in an innovative environment on a cutting-edge e-commerce framework built on a highly scalable distributed architecture, this is the opportunity for you!
RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Design and implement resilient, scalable, and observable processes and infrastructure used across client implementations of the software
- Secure networks, applications, and data
- Provide production monitoring and support for client systems
- Design, deploy, and maintain Elastic-based logging, monitoring, and alerting solutions
- Design and implement automation tools for testing, monitoring, and reporting
- Design and implement integrations within CI/CD pipelines
- Build security controls into Engineering and DevOps pipelines (e.g., build automation and configuration management)
- Participate in code and design reviews
- Understand and advocate for the OWASP Top 10, industry best practices, and secure coding principles
- Work with clients on infrastructure and scaling requirements
- Review and assess client deployments for potential security, scaling, and reliability issues
- Routinely conduct, review, and resolve findings from penetration and vulnerability assessments
- Review the security posture of new product integrations
- Assist with company compliance objectives
EXPERIENCE & KNOWLEDGE:
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Computer Security, Information Systems, or related field
- 3+ years of related DevOps, infrastructure, and security experience
- Deep knowledge of Microsoft Azure, including networking (VNets, subnets, NSGs, Private Link), security (Entra ID, Key Vault, Defender for Cloud), Kubernetes (AKS), managed databases, and monitoring/observability (Azure Monitor, Log Analytics)
- Hands-on experience with at least one additional cloud platform (AWS or GCP) strongly preferred
- Expert in Kubernetes, Helm, Terraform (and similar technologies)
- Experience with the Elastic Stack (Elasticsearch, Kibana, Logstash/Beats/Elastic Agent), including cluster deployment, scaling, tuning, and using Elastic for logging, monitoring, and observability
- Experience with REST-style web services and APIs
- Experience with API security and best practices
- Experience with mobile device and application security
- Experience designing networks and subnets (VNets/VPCs) for security, monitoring, and prevention
- Experience with CI/CD automation tools such as Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, or AWS CodePipeline
NICE TO HAVE:
- Relevant certifications such as Azure DevOps Engineer Expert (AZ-400), Azure Administrator (AZ-104), AWS, Kubernetes (CKA/CKAD), Terraform, or Elastic
- Understanding of compliance programs such as SOC 2 and PCI DSS
- Experience with PostgreSQL performance tuning, including query and index analysis and index creation
- Experience tuning Kubernetes pod resource requests and limits based on observed metrics