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Role Description

Great Gray is looking to add a Senior DevOps Engineer on our IT team. This is a newly-created engineer role which will aid in bringing critical platform capabilities in-house to support our rapid growth. The work will play a pivotal role in modernizing our infrastructure, leading our migration from Azure DevOps to GitHub Actions, and building a world-class developer experience.

Location: This position will work remote. Candidate must be located in the Eastern Time Zone within the United States. Visa sponsorship or transfer of an existing visa is not available for this position. Applicants must be authorized to work directly for any employer in the United States without visa sponsorship or transfer.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain self-service tools and automation that empower engineering teams to ship faster with confidence
• Design and implement standards, patterns, and best practices for containerized and traditional applications
• Create documentation and runbooks that enable teams to own their services
• Champion DevOps culture and practices across engineering teams
• Lead a migration from Azure DevOps to GitHub Actions, designing robust, scalable pipeline architectures
• Mature existing CI/CD pipelines with improved testing, security scanning, and deployment strategies
• Implement blue-green and canary deployment patterns
• Build reusable pipeline templates and shared workflows
• Manage and optimize our Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) clusters
• Containerize legacy applications and design migration strategies from monoliths to microservices
• Work with Azure App Services, Virtual Machine Scale Sets, and networking infrastructure
• Implement and maintain service mesh patterns, monitoring, and observability
• Write and maintain Terraform modules for Azure infrastructure
• Automate infrastructure provisioning, configuration management, and scaling
• Modernize legacy infrastructure with Windows AD dependencies, SSRS, and SSIS workloads
• Design and implement auto-scaling strategies for applications currently lacking them
• Enhance monitoring and alerting using Application Insights, Azure Monitor, Prometheus/Grafana, Jaeger, and OpenTelemetry
• Build dashboards and SLO/SLI frameworks to measure system health
• Drive incident response processes and post-mortem culture
• Optimize application and infrastructure performance
• Complete other related duties as assigned

Qualifications

• 5+ years of DevOps/Platform/SRE experience, with significant time in Azure environments, including AKS, App Services, Virtual Machine Scale Sets, Azure Networking and Azure SQL.
• Kubernetes/AKS deployment strategies, cluster management, troubleshooting
• CI/CD expertise including GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps or similar
• Terraform writing modules, managing state and best practices
• Containerization, registries, Docker, security scanning
• Scripting & automation with PowerShell, Bash, Python or Go
• Monolith and microservices experience
• Experience with distributed tracing, metrics and logging platforms for observability
• MS SQL Server, Azure SQL backup, replication and performance tuning
• Problem-solving mindset
• Your standards reflect our core values: Growth Mindset, Disciplined Curiosity, Grit, Results Ownership, Collaboration.

Benefits

• Be an integral part of a high-growth organization!
• Competitive compensation package
• Group medical, dental and vision insurance
• Employer-paid life and disability insurance
• Annual well-being stipend
• Eligible employees may also contribute to a 401(k) plan with an advantageous employer contribution model, upholding our mission to support our employees in retirement