DevOps Engineer ($60,000 - $100,000 Annually DOE)

ELM Utility Services, with a team of over 1300 employees nationwide, is offering a great opportunity for a DevOps Engineer in the Missoula, Montana area. This position can be offered as a remote position to the right candidate pending interview. As a DevOps Engineer your job will be to strengthen how we build, ship, and operate our systems in Azure. This role is hands-on and focused on engineering enablement: CI/CD, infrastructure automation, observability, reliability, and secure operations. We use Azure and Azure DevOps (Repos, Pipelines, Boards, Artifacts, Wiki, etc.) plus Datadog as our primary monitoring/observability platform.

Our Total Rewards Package Includes:

• Voluntary Medical, Dental, Vision, Life, Disability, FSA, H.S.A., and Teladoc.
• Company Paid Life Insurance up to $50,000
• Paid-Time Off (PTO) for vacation and sick time purposes
• 6 Paid Holidays
• 401(k) plan
• Bonuses for milestone anniversaries
• Annual reviews with opportunity for pay increases
• Competitive pay based on experience
• Long history of stable employment and promoting from within
• Opportunity to lead and modernize production systems with meaningful operational impact

Roles & Responsibilities:

CI/CD & Release Engineering (core)

• Design, build, and maintain Azure DevOps Pipelines for applications and data services (build/test/release)
• Standardize pipeline templates, approvals, environments, and promotion strategies across teams
• Improve release reliability: versioning, automated checks, rollback strategies, and deployment validation
• Support repo workflows in Azure DevOps (branch policies, PR checks, code quality gates)
• Improve platform consistency: reusable modules, baseline policies, and repeatable patterns

Observability & Reliability (core)

• Own Datadog observability practices across services: dashboards, monitors, alert routing, SLOs, log/trace/metric strategy
• Improve troubleshooting and operational readiness: runbooks, incident response workflows, post-incident improvements
• Drive performance and reliability improvements in partnership with engineering (capacity signals, latency/error budgets)

Security & Compliance Enablement (core-to-growing)

• Implement secure CI/CD practices: secret management, least privilege service principals, pipeline permissions, artifact integrity
• Support vulnerability management in the delivery pipeline (dependency scanning, code scanning, baseline hardening)
• Help enforce environment controls: approvals, change tracking, auditability, and access standards

Developer Enablement (core)

• Create self-service tooling and standards that make teams faster (templates, docs, golden paths)
• Partner with engineers to improve build times, test stability, deployment confidence, and operational maturity
• Support internal platform documentation (Azure DevOps Wiki/runbooks) and knowledge sharing

Qualifications:

• 1–5 years in DevOps, SRE, platform engineering, or systems engineering with strong software delivery ownership
• Experience supporting production systems with on-call/incident response expectations (formal or informal)

Technical Skills (strongly preferred)

• Cloud fundamentals (compute, networking, identity, logging/monitoring patterns, resource governance)
• Azure DevOps (Pipelines, Repos, Boards, Artifacts; environment approvals; service connections)
• Datadog (monitors, dashboards, logs, APM/tracing, alert routing, tagging strategy)
• CI/CD best practices: build/test automation, deployment strategies, environment promotion, rollback patterns

Nice to have

• Container workflows (Docker, ACR, containerized deployments)
• Azure security tooling familiarity (Defender for Cloud concepts, key management, conditional access patterns)
• Database delivery patterns (migrations, DACPACs, schema change controls)
• Familiarity with GitHub Advanced Security or similar scanning tools (if applicable)

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