Azure DevOps Engineer

A rapidly growing, award-winning cybersecurity company is seeking a hands-on DevOps Team Leader to join its engineering organization. In this role, you’ll take charge of the deployment, orchestration, and secure operations of advanced identity and security solutions.
This is a hybrid position, requiring three days per week in-office, based in Dallas Texas. This is a player-coach opportunity: you’ll lead a global DevOps team while remaining deeply involved in technical delivery and the ongoing development of the company’s DevOps strategy. The role blends leadership, mentorship, and hands-on engineering.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Lead design and optimization of build and release pipelines.
• Conduct 1:1s, performance reviews, and support team development.
• Architect cloud deployment strategies focused on performance and cost-efficiency.
• Review infrastructure code, pipelines, and documentation to ensure best practices.
• Train teams in Azure DevOps, Git workflows, and DevOps methodologies.
• Champion DevOps principles across engineering and IT.
• Collaborate with Infrastructure and Security teams on deployment and support.
• Create and maintain documentation for operational clarity and consistency.
• Represent the DevOps team in cross-functional meetings and strategic planning.

Key Responsibilities
Infrastructure & Cloud Operations

• Design and manage Microsoft Azure infrastructure using Terraform and Terragrunt.
• Operate and maintain AKS (Azure Kubernetes Service) clusters with Istio.
• Oversee Azure resources (networking, Key Vault, Blob Storage, CosmosDB).
• Manage and configure OpenSearch clusters for logging and data indexing.

DevOps & Automation

• Lead CI/CD pipeline development using Azure DevOps.
• Maintain GitOps workflows with ArgoCD.
• Develop and maintain automation scripts (primarily Bash).

Security & Compliance

• Implement Zero Trust architecture using Azure PIM and RBAC.
• Configure and manage Web Application Firewalls (WAFs).

Monitoring & Reliability

• Deploy observability tools: OpenTelemetry, Azure Monitor, Application Insights.
• Define and maintain SLAs, SLOs, and error budgets.

Required Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in DevOps or SRE roles in cloud-native or SaaS environments.
• 2+ years of team leadership experience, including direct people management.
• Deep experience with Microsoft Azure infrastructure and services.
• Hands-on expertise in:
• Terraform, Terragrunt
• Kubernetes (AKS), Helm
• Istio service mesh
• ArgoCD and GitOps workflows
• CI/CD using Azure DevOps
• Zero Trust security (PIM, RBAC)
• Monitoring/Observability: OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Grafana, Azure Monitor
• Bash scripting, with working knowledge of Python or Go

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with Kafka or other event-driven systems.
• Expertise in OpenSearch or Elasticsearch.
• Strong understanding of CosmosDB performance tuning.
• Familiarity with Azure services such as API Management, Logic Apps, etc.