The DevOps Engineer is an experienced individual contributor who thrives in a fast-paced, product-focused environment. The ideal candidate will help us scale and optimize our cloud-native infrastructure on Microsoft Azure, bring deep expertise in Kubernetes, GitOps, and observability tooling like Prometheus, Grafana, and Loki. You'll play a critical role in driving automation, reliability, and developer velocity across the engineering organization.

Responsibilities:

• Lead the design, implementation, and scaling of infrastructure in Azure using Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) and related services.
• Develop and maintain GitOps workflows (e.g., ArgoCD or Flux) to automate and manage application deployments and cluster configurations.
• Build and maintain observability systems using Prometheus, Grafana, and Loki for metrics, visualization, and logging.
• Drive CI/CD pipeline automation and infrastructure-as-code using tools such as Terraform, Helm, and Github CI/CD.
• Work cross-functionally with development teams to support feature delivery, deployment strategy, and runtime performance.
• Champion DevOps best practices including IaC, shift-left security, and proactive monitoring.
• Help ensure infrastructure scalability, availability, and resilience as we grow.
• Participate in incident response, post-mortems, and on-call rotations.
• Drive the evolution of our developer experience by designing, implementing, and maintaining scalable, and repeatable development environments that empower engineering teams to build and ship software with speed and confidence.
• Mentor team members and advocate for DevOps culture and continuous improvement.

Requirements:

• 8+ years of hands-on DevOps or SRE experience, with significant time spent in cloud-based environments, preferably Azure.
• Strong production experience with Kubernetes (ideally AKS) and container orchestration.
• Proficient in Azure services such as Azure Resource Manager (ARM), Azure Monitor, Azure Networking, and Azure DevOps or equivalent.
• Deep knowledge of Prometheus, Grafana, and Loki for monitoring and logging.
• Demonstrated experience with GitOps configuration using ArgoCD.
• Expertise with Terraform, Helm, and infrastructure-as-code approaches.
• Strong scripting and automation skills (e.g., Python, Bash, PowerShell).
• Solid understanding of networking, Linux systems, and cloud security principles.

Qualifications:

• Experience in high-growth startup or scale-up environments.
• Familiarity with Azure cost optimization, scalability patterns, and high-availability architecture.
• Exposure to service mesh (e.g., Istio, Linkerd) and secrets management tools (e.g., HashiCorp Vault, Azure Key Vault).
• Knowledge of compliance frameworks (SOC2, HIPAA, ISO 27001, etc.).
• Experience automating ephemeral development environment creation

Soft Skills:

• Self-starter comfortable with ambiguity and fast iteration.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills.
• Able to lead by example and mentor across engineering teams.
• Passionate about automation, observability, and delivering value quickly.