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Senior DevOps Engineer – Azure SaaS Platform (FedRAMP, CI/CD, SRE)
Senior DevOps Engineer – Azure SaaS Platform (FedRAMP, CI/CD, SRE)
As a Senior DevOps Engineer, you will play a critical role in scaling and securing our Azure-based SaaS platform. You will be responsible for owning and evolving our CI/CD infrastructure, driving SRE best practices, and contributing to our FedRAMP compliance initiatives. This is a senior-level position for someone who thrives in a fast-paced, highly collaborative environment, and is deeply familiar with modern DevOps in the Azure cloud ecosystem.
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In this role, you will...
• Collaborate with engineering teams to design, build, secure, and scale our SaaS platform on Azure using services like AKS (Azure Kubernetes Service), Azure Functions, Azure Service Bus, and related services.
• Lead the development and optimization of CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure automation, and release engineering workflows using tools like Terraform, Helm, GitHub Actions, and Azure DevOps.
• Drive SRE principles across the organization, focusing on observability, incident response, availability, performance monitoring, and operational excellence.
• Contribute directly to our FedRAMP compliance readiness efforts, including secure configuration management, audit logging, documentation, and operational procedures.
• Provide Tier 2/3 operational support, including support during maintenance windows and participation in an on-call rotation during North American business hours.
• Support ongoing capacity planning, cost optimization, and scaling efforts for key infrastructure services.
• Maintain and improve production monitoring, alerting, and runbooks to ensure high reliability and rapid incident response.
• Participate in security, availability, and disaster recovery planning.
• Document operational processes, architectural decisions, and runbooks in a structured, trackable system (e.g., Jira, Confluence).
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We’re looking for someone who has...
• 7+ years of experience in DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering, or Platform Engineering roles.
• 3+ years of experience with Azure Cloud and its native services (especially AKS, Azure Functions, Azure Service Bus, Azure Monitor, Key Vault, etc.).
• Proven experience designing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines for microservices architectures and serverless environments.
• Hands-on experience with Kubernetes, Helm charts, and managing cloud-native workloads.
• Expertise in infrastructure-as-code using tools like Terraform.
• Strong scripting and automation skills (e.g., Bash, Python).
• Deep experience with monitoring, observability, incident response, and alerting using tools like Prometheus, Grafana, Azure Monitor, etc.
• Familiarity with FedRAMP, SOC 2, or other security/compliance frameworks (working experience on a FedRAMP-authorized environment is a strong plus).
• Excellent communication skills and ability to work cross-functionally with engineering, security, and compliance teams.
• Proven ability to work effectively in remote teams across time zones.
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Preferred Qualifications
• Experience with GitHub Actions/Workflows, and GitLab CI.
• Experience with distributed databases such as PostgreSQL, Elasticsearch, Redis.
• Exposure to security practices in SaaS environments (encryption, secret management, network hardening).
• Familiarity with change management processes.
• Relevant Azure certifications.
• Prior experience contributing to or leading FedRAMP or other regulated compliance initiatives.
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Education
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field, or equivalent practical experience.