Sr DevOps Engineer Azure (Remoto | PJ)

100% Remote USA Timezone Contractor / PJ position Role Overview The goal is to shape the reliability and scalability of mission-critical platforms on Azure, Kubernetes, and modern DevOps toolchains.

You will solve complex infrastructure challenges, automate end-to-end operations, and ensure systems operate with high availability, performance, and security.

What You Will Do - Design, build, and improve CI/CD pipelines for applications and infrastructure - Develop automation frameworks that reduce manual effort and increase consistency. - Configure and optimize cloud infrastructure to align with security, scalability, and performance best practices. - Collaborate with development teams to remove deployment blockers and improve delivery workflows. - Monitor reliability and performance, identify issues early, and implement data-driven improvements to increase uptime and efficiency. - Participate in on-call rotations and drive incident resolution with clear postmortems and preventive actions. - Maintain technical documentation for pipelines, configurations, and runbooks. - Perform readiness assessments and validation tests before production rollouts. - Implement Infrastructure as Code using Terraform and ARM templates with version control and reproducibility. - Troubleshoot complex deployment, provisioning, and performance issues across multi-cloud and containerized environments.

Minimum Qualifications - Proven track record in SRE or DevOps roles operating production systems - Hands-on experience running production workloads on Kubernetes in a cloud environment, including cluster design, autoscaling, upgrades, and network policies. - Proven CI/CD delivery using GitHub Actions or Jenkins, including promotion across environments, approvals, and rollback strategies. - Infrastructure as Code expertise with Terraform and ARM templates, including modules, remote state, workspaces, and policy enforcement. - Strong scripting in PowerShell, Bash, or Python for automation and diagnostics. - GitOps experience with Argo CD or Flux, managing multi-environment application delivery and drift remediation. - Containerization with Docker and Kubernetes, including health probes, PodDisruptionBudgets, resource quotas, HorizontalPodAutoscaler, and operators. - Networking fundamentals with cloud network security practices such as VNet design, NSGs, Private Link, and ingress controllers. - Working knowledge of cloud security and compliance, including least privilege, secrets management, audit trails, and control evidence. - Excellent written and spoken English. - Ability to collaborate across US time zone.

Preferred Qualifications - Microsoft Azure certification, such as Developer Associate, Administrator, or DevOps Engineer Expert - Observability using Application Insights, Elastic Stack (ELK), Grafana, and Prometheus for metrics, logs, and traces. - Experience with log aggregation and alerting at scale using Elastic and Prometheus. - Understanding of high availability, scalability, disaster recovery, and cost optimization strategies. - Experience managing Windows-based containerized applications.

Plus - Experience in Google Cloud Platform (GCP) or AWS