Complete Staffing

Job Description Job Description Complete Staffing is partnering with an AWESOME organization to identify an experienced Senior DevOps Engineer to join its technology team. This is an excellent opportunity for a hands-on technical professional who enjoys solving complex engineering challenges, modernizing cloud infrastructure, and improving software delivery processes. The Senior DevOps Engineer will play a key role in advancing the organization's DevOps capabilities, with a focus on cloud engineering, infrastructure automation, platform engineering, system reliability, and emerging AI-enabled operational tools. This individual will serve as a senior technical resource, helping establish best practices, mentor fellow engineers, and develop scalable, secure, and repeatable solutions that improve the reliability and efficiency of technology operations. Key Responsibilities DevOps & CI/CD: Design, implement, and optimize continuous integration and continuous delivery pipelines to support reliable, secure, and repeatable software releases. Cloud Engineering: Develop and maintain scalable, secure, and cost-effective cloud and hybrid infrastructure, preferably within Microsoft Azure. Infrastructure Automation: Build automation solutions and Infrastructure as Code using tools such as Terraform, Bicep, PowerShell, Python, Azure DevOps, and GitHub Actions. Platform Engineering: Develop reusable deployment templates, self-service workflows, and standardized engineering practices that improve developer productivity and streamline delivery. Site Reliability Engineering: Apply reliability engineering principles to improve system availability, performance, incident response, capacity planning, and operational efficiency. Monitoring & Observability: Implement and enhance monitoring, logging, metrics, tracing, alerting, and dashboards to improve system visibility and accelerate troubleshooting. Technical Leadership: Serve as a technical escalation point, mentor other engineers, lead complex troubleshooting efforts, and promote engineering best practices. Security & Compliance: Integrate security controls into pipelines and automation, including secrets management, identity and access controls, vulnerability scanning, and compliance requirements. Environment Management: Automate environment provisioning, configuration management, patching, release readiness, and other operational processes. Cloud-Native Technologies: Support containerization and orchestration technologies, including Docker and Kubernetes, where appropriate. AI-Enabled Operations: Evaluate and responsibly leverage AI-assisted tools to improve troubleshooting, documentation, automation, and engineering productivity while maintaining appropriate security controls. Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner with application development, infrastructure, database, security, and operations teams to improve deployment processes and production reliability. Documentation & Continuous Improvement: Maintain technical documentation, architecture diagrams, runbooks, and operational standards while researching new tools and technologies to improve engineering practices. Required Qualifications 5-7 years of progressive experience in DevOps, cloud engineering, systems engineering, platform engineering, infrastructure automation, or a related technical field. Hands-on experience designing, supporting, and improving CI/CD pipelines using tools such as Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, GitLab CI, or similar platforms. Strong scripting and automation skills using PowerShell, Python, Bash, or comparable languages. Experience with Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform, Bicep, ARM templates, or Ansible. Working knowledge of cloud infrastructure, preferably Microsoft Azure, including networking, compute, storage, identity, security, monitoring, and cost optimization. Understanding of modern DevOps practices, release management, infrastructure automation, and operational support. Familiarity with monitoring, logging, alerting, and observability tools such as Azure Monitor, Application Insights, Log Analytics, Grafana, Prometheus, Splunk, or similar technologies. Knowledge of DevSecOps principles, including secure pipeline design, secrets management, vulnerability scanning, and access controls. Experience supporting enterprise applications, databases, middleware, or other business-critical systems across development, testing, staging, and production environments. Strong troubleshooting, analytical, communication, and documentation skills. Ability to work independently, lead technical initiatives, and mentor engineers without requiring direct people-management responsibility. Preferred Qualifications Experience with platform engineering practices, internal developer platforms, self-service automation, and reusable deployment patterns. Knowledge of Site Reliability Engineering principles, including service-level indicators, service-level objectives, error budgets, incident reviews, and toil reduction. Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, container orchestration, and cloud-native application deployment. Familiarity with AI-assisted engineering and operations tools. Experience with hybrid infrastructure environments and enterprise application platforms. Industry certifications such as Microsoft Azure Administrator, Azure DevOps Engineer Expert, Azure Solutions Architect, HashiCorp Terraform Associate, Kubernetes, or related DevOps certifications. Education & Experience A bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related discipline is preferred. Equivalent combinations of education, certifications, and relevant professional experience will also be considered.