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Role: Azure DevOps Engineer / Site Reliability Engineer (with Development Experience)
Locations: Beaverton, OR Hybrid
Overview
We are seeking an Azure DevOps Engineer with strong Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) experience and a solid background in software development. This role blends cloud automation, reliability engineering, CI/CD excellence, and hands-on coding to ensure scalable, secure, and highly available systems across Azure environments.
Responsibilities
Design, build, and maintain Azure DevOps pipelines (YAML-based CI/CD) for application and infrastructure deployments.
Implement SRE best practices including observability, incident response, postmortems, error budgets, and service-level objectives (SLOs).
Develop automation tools, scripts, and services using C#, Python, PowerShell, or similar languages.
Build and maintain IaC using Terraform, Bicep, or ARM templates.
Manage and optimize Azure resources including AKS, App Services, Functions, Storage, Key Vault, API Management, and Azure SQL.
Implement monitoring and alerting using Azure Monitor, Application Insights, Log Analytics, and Grafana/Prometheus (if applicable).
Improve system reliability through performance tuning, capacity planning, chaos engineering, and resilience testing.
Collaborate with development teams to ensure applications are designed for reliability, scalability, and cloud-native operation.
Support containerization and orchestration using Docker and Kubernetes (AKS).
Drive continuous improvement across deployment processes, release automation, and cloud governance.
Participate in on-call rotations and lead incident response efforts when needed.
Must be an open and apt communicator.
Must adapt easily to being embedded in a fast-paced development team
Required Qualifications
5 years in Azure DevOps, SRE, or cloud engineering roles.
Strong development experience in C#, Python, or PowerShell (must be able to build tools, not just scripts).
Hands-on experience with Azure DevOps Repos, Pipelines, Artifacts, and Boards.
Deep knowledge of Azure services, cloud architecture, and distributed systems.
Strong experience with Kubernetes (AKS), containerization, and microservices.
Proficiency with Terraform, Bicep, or ARM templates for IaC.
Experience implementing monitoring, logging, tracing, and alerting frameworks.
Solid understanding of SRE principles, SLIs/SLOs, error budgets, and reliability metrics.
Experience with Git, branching strategies, and DevOps best practices.
Preferred Qualifications
Experience with Azure Landing Zones, cloud governance, and enterprise-scale architecture.
Familiarity with GitHub Actions, Jenkins, or other CI/CD tools.
Experience with chaos engineering tools (Gremlin, Chaos Mesh).
Background supporting high-availability, mission-critical systems.
Knowledge of security best practices: RBAC, managed identities, secrets management, and zero-trust principles.