Role Description

We’re looking for a hybrid DevOps Manager / Technical Lead to guide our growing infrastructure and engineering operations. This role leans heavily toward technical leadership—remaining hands-on with architecture, automation, and cloud operations—while also mentoring and managing a small team. You’ll drive best practices, champion reliability, and help scale our systems in Microsoft Azure.

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  Lead & Manage:
  
  Provide technical leadership and mentorship to DevOps engineers, while balancing people management responsibilities.
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  Hands-On Contribution:
  
  Remain actively involved in designing, implementing, and troubleshooting Azure infrastructure and automation.
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  Cloud Architecture:
  
  Architect scalable, secure, and cost-efficient solutions in Azure (networking, compute, storage, databases, monitoring).
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  Automation & Tooling:
  
  Build CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure as code (Terraform, Bicep, or ARM), and automation frameworks.
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  Reliability & Performance:
  
  Drive observability, incident response, monitoring, and SRE practices to ensure system resilience.
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  Collaboration:
  
  Partner closely with software engineering teams to improve deployment workflows, release processes, and system reliability.
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  Strategy:
  
  Define DevOps best practices and roadmap, helping align technical investments with business goals.

Qualifications

• Proven experience as a DevOps Lead, Tech Lead, or Manager, ideally in a fast-paced engineering environment.
• Strong hands-on expertise in Azure cloud services (AKS, App Services, Azure Functions, VNets, AAD, etc.).
• Deep experience with CI/CD pipelines (Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, or similar).
• Proficiency in Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Bicep, or ARM templates).
• Knowledge of containers & orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes).
• Familiarity with monitoring, logging, and observability tools (Azure Monitor, Prometheus, Grafana, ELK/EFK).
• Strong scripting skills (PowerShell, Bash, or Python).
• Experience balancing people management and technical leadership—mentoring engineers, running standups, performance feedback.
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to collaborate across product, engineering, and operations teams.
• 7 years relevant experience to include leadership.
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent work experience, OR Associate’s degree in a technical field, OR certification in relevant focus area.

Requirements

• Exposure to security, compliance, and governance in Azure (identity, policies, RBAC).
• Background in SRE practices (SLAs, SLIs, SLOs).
• Prior experience in scaling teams or hiring engineers.

Benefits

• Comprehensive full medical, dental and vision Insurance
• Basic Life Insurance at no cost to the employee
• Company paid short-term and long-term disability
• 12 weeks of 100% paid Parental Leave
• Health Savings Account (HSA)
• Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA)
• Retirement savings plan
• Personal Paid Time Off
• Paid holidays and company-wide Wellness Day off
• Paid time off to volunteer at nonprofit organizations
• Pet friendly office environment
• Commuter Benefits
• Group Pet Insurance
• On the job training and skills development
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)