Azure DevOps Engineer

Alight•Virtual, IL

2d•$120,000 - $150,000•Remote

About The Position

Alight is seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer to design, build, and scale cloud infrastructure and CI/CD capabilities supporting healthcare applications and services. This role requires hands-on expertise across Azure, AWS infrastructure automation with Terraform, YAML-based pipelines, and DevOps platforms such as Azure DevOps (ADO) and GitHub.

Requirements

5+ years of DevOps or Cloud Engineering experience, with at least 3 years hands-on experience in both Azure and AWS.
Demonstrate expertise with YAML-based pipelines (multi-stage, reusable templates, variable groups, environments).
Proficiency with Azure DevOps (ADO) and GitHub/GitHub Actions for CI/CD, repository management, and pipelines governance.
Proficiency abilities using PowerShell, Bash, or Python.
Demonstrate expertise with Azure Cosmo DB, Kubernetes platforms (AKS, EKS), or GitOps tools (Argo CD, Flux).
Maintain experience with observability tools such as Azure Application Insight, New Relic, Azure Monitor, CloudWatch
Have certifications such as AZ-104, AZ-400

Nice To Haves

familiar with containerized workloads is a plus.

Responsibilities

Implementing and governing Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform, including modules, state management, and CI enforcement.
Driving compliance alignment across DevOps processes to meet SOC 2, HIPAA, and using CheckMarx, SonarQube internal security standards, focusing on access control, auditability, and PHI safeguards.
Automating deployment, monitoring, and operational reliability across distributed cloud services, familiar with containerized workloads is a plus.
Collaborating with security, compliance, and audit teams to support continuous monitoring, evidence gathering, and security assessments.
Delivering infrastructure and application deployments during weekend release windows as required; participate in an on-call rotation.
Enforcing and contributing to engineering standards, best practices, and technical design reviews.
Troubleshooting and remediate complex production issues, performing root cause analysis and implementing long-term fixes.
Including weekend work for planned releases and on-call rotations
Monitoring, support, and troubleshoot ETL and data integration workflows across production, QA, and development environments to ensure smooth daily operations.
Analyzing and resolve incidents, job failures, and performance issues related to Informatica workflows, mappings, and SQL jobs.
Owning and maintain ETL components including Informatica mappings, metadata, scripts, schedules, and operational procedures. Identify opportunities to optimize performance, scalability, and reliability of existing jobs/processes.
Ensuring stability of data ingestion pipelines spanning batch, nearrealtime, and realtime patterns. Finetune ETL solutions by developing a deep technical understanding of data flows and upstream/downstream dependencies.
Collaborating with DBAs and Data Architects to implement appropriate data partitioning, indexing, and optimization strategies to enhance job performance.
Developing or modify SQL scripts, stored procedures, database triggers, and queries as part of incident resolution, change requests, or performance tuning.
Work closely with cross functional and offshore teams, ensuring timely resolution of issues, clear communication, and adherence to support SLAs and operational guidelines.
Managing multiple concurrent support tickets, change requests, and enhancement tasks, balancing priorities based on business impact and urgency.
Ensuring compliance with published support, development, coding, and testing standards, as well as change management practices.