Azure Developer Operations Engineer Jobs in Norcross, GA

Role Overview 

As a Senior DevOps Engineer, you'll design, build, and manage Azure-based cloud platforms that support secure, reliable application delivery. You'll lead CI/CD enablement, infrastructure automation, and observability efforts, while partnering across Technology teams to improve performance, reliability, and security as Cortland's technology footprint continues to grow. In this role, you'll play a key part in shaping platform standards and operational practices that enable teams to build, test, and deploy at scale. 

Cloud Platform & Automation 

• Design, deploy, and operate secure, scalable cloud infrastructure on Microsoft Azure supporting application and data platforms. 
• Automate infrastructure provisioning and configuration using Infrastructure as Code (Terraform and Azure Bicep) to enable consistent, repeatable deployments. 
• Continuously improve platform reliability, performance, and scalability through automation and optimization. 

CI/CD Enablement & Developer Support 

• Enable development teams through standardized CI/CD pipelines, reusable templates, and tooling support using GitHub and Azure DevOps. 
• Partner with engineering teams to improve build, test, and deployment workflows while promoting DevOps best practices. 

Monitoring, Reliability & Operations 

• Build and support a centralized monitoring and observability platform covering application availability and performance, infrastructure and network health, alerting, and ServiceNow integrations. 
• Participate in an oncall rotation and respond to incidents and outages, collaborating with application teams to diagnose and resolve complex production issues. 
• Design and maintain highavailability architectures, backup strategies, and disaster recovery solutions to support business continuity. 

Security, Governance & Collaboration 

• Implement and enforce cloud security and governance best practices, including IAM/RBAC, Azure Policy, firewall rules, and secure network architectures. 
• Collaborate closely with Software Engineering, Data Engineering, Data Analytics, and Technology Operations teams to deliver reliable, secure cloud platform services. 

Qualifications 

Education & Experience 

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related field preferred. 
• 5+ years of experience in DevOps, Cloud Engineering, or Site Reliability Engineering, with deep expertise in Microsoft Azure. 
• Proven experience designing, deploying, and operating production-grade Azure infrastructure. 
• Microsoft Azure certifications (AZ-104, AZ-204, AZ-305, AZ-400) is preferred. 
• Familiarity with Microsoft's Well-Architected Framework and Cloud Adoption Framework is preferred. 
• Experience with AI-assisted development tools such as GitHub Copilot, Codex, or Claude Code is preferred. 

Cloud Platform, Automation & CI/CD 

• Extensive hands-on experience with Infrastructure as Code using Terraform and Azure Bicep. 
• Proficiency in scripting and automation using PowerShell and Python. 
• Experience with CI/CD platforms and tooling, including Git, GitHub, and Azure DevOps. 

Security, Governance & Platform Operations 

• Strong experience with Azure governance and security tools, including Azure Policy, Azure Privileged Identity Management (PIM), and Entra ID (Azure Active Directory). 
• Experience with application and infrastructure monitoring tools such as Datadog, New Relic, Azure Monitor, Prometheus, Grafana, or similar platforms. 
• Experience deploying and supporting Windows Server-based workloads, including Active Directory and Microsoft SQL Server. 

Professional Skills  

• Excellent problem solving and troubleshooting skills with the ability to resolve complex infrastructure and inter-related systems issues 
• Strong communication and collaboration skills, with experience working across teams and providing platform support to multiple stakeholders