Senior DevOps Engineer

DevOps Team Lead

We're looking for an experienced DevOps professional to lead our engineering team in designing, implementing and continuously improving build and release pipelines. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in Microsoft Azure infrastructure and services, with hands-on experience in Terraform and Terragrunt, Kubernetes (AKS) and Helm, Istio Service Mesh and Istio Ingress Gateways, ArgoCD and GitOps workflows, Zero Trust architecture, and observability tools like OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Grafana and Azure Monitor.

The successful candidate will be responsible for architecting and executing cloud deployment strategies for optimized performance and cost efficiency, reviewing code, infrastructure configurations and documentation to uphold best practices, training and mentoring developers and stakeholders in Azure DevOps and Git workflows, advocating for DevOps culture and best practices across engineering and IT teams, collaborating with Infrastructure engineers to diagnose and resolve deployment challenges, documenting and communicating procedures with clarity and consistency, troubleshooting issues during deployment and providing production support in staging and live environments, representing the team in cross-functional meetings with insightful recommendations, researching and evaluating emerging technologies for possible adoption, and maintaining expertise in industry leading tools and methodologies.

Key Responsibilities:

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• Infrastructure & Cloud Operations: Design and manage Azure infrastructure using IaC principles with Terraform and Terragrunt, maintain AKS clusters with Istio for secure, scalable service-to-service communication, manage Azure resources such as networking, Key Vault, Blob Storage, and CosmosDB, configure OpenSearch clusters for efficient logging and data indexing, and optimize CosmosDB performance with scaling strategies and cost oversight.\
• DevOps Practices & Automation: Lead the development of robust CI/CD pipelines, establish and maintain GitOps workflows via ArgoCD, author and maintain automation scripts (primarily Bash) to streamline operations, continuously evaluate and enhance deployment and developer processes, and ensure alignment with compliance frameworks and standards.\
• Security & Compliance: Implement Zero Trust security architecture using Azure PIM and RBAC, define and enforce least privilege access models and security best practices, configure Web Application Firewalls (WAFs) and manage network security in Azure, and ensure compliance with regulatory requirements.\
• Monitoring & Reliability: Deploy observability tooling using OpenTelemetry, Azure Monitor, and Application Insights, participate in on-call rotation and incident response protocols, lead post-incident analysis and drive implementation of long-term fixes, define and maintain reliability objectives, SLAs, and error budgets.\
• Required Qualifications:\
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  • 5+ years of DevOps/SRE experience in SaaS or cloud-native environments.\
  • 2+ years in a formal engineering leadership role, including people management and performance reviews.\
  • Proven expertise with Microsoft Azure infrastructure and services.\
  • Strong hands-on experience with Terraform and Terragrunt, Kubernetes (AKS) and Helm, Istio Service Mesh and Istio Ingress Gateways, ArgoCD and GitOps workflows, Zero Trust architecture, and observability tools like OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Grafana, and Azure Monitor.\
  • Comfortable supporting production systems in on-call rotation, strong communication, leadership, and troubleshooting abilities, and experience with WAFs and secure network configurations in Azure.\
  • PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS: Hands-on experience with Kafka and event-driven systems, familiarity with microservices and distributed systems architecture, advanced knowledge of OpenSearch or Elasticsearch, deep understanding of CosmosDB performance tuning and data modeling, exposure to Azure API Management, Logic Apps, and other Azure native services, and experience building and operating large-scale SaaS platforms.\
  • Benefits: At Semperis, we celebrate curiosity, integrity, and people who take initiative. If you're someone who sees the glass as half full, embraces challenges as growth opportunities, and values a healthy balance between work and life—we'd love to meet you.\
  • Award-Winning Workplace: We've been recognized as one of America's Fastest-Growing Cybersecurity Companies by the Inc. 5000, a DUNS 100 Top Startup to Work For, and a multi-year Inc. Best Workplace awardee.\
  • Semperis is an Equal Opportunity Employer.\
  • Contact Us: Please inform us if you need assistance completing this application or to otherwise participate in the application process.\
  • About Us: Every member of our team participates in a meaningful mission: to help organizations—and society at large—fight back against cyber threats by strengthening AD security.\
  • Mission Statement: To be a force for good: for the organizations we serve, for our employees, and for the people and communities in which we live and work.