Azure DevOps Engineer – Terraform, AKS & GitHub Actions
About The Position
CTG is seeking an Azure DevOps Engineer for a five-month remote position supporting its client. The role focuses on designing and implementing secure Azure cloud infrastructure, developing Terraform infrastructure as code, building GitHub Actions CI/CD pipelines, and deploying and operating production AKS clusters and containerized workloads. The engineer will also optimize container images, troubleshoot Linux and infrastructure issues, and apply cloud security, governance, and deployment best practices. A bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related field is required, or equivalent practical experience. Relevant Azure, Kubernetes, Terraform, or DevOps certifications are preferred. Excellent verbal and written English communication skills and the ability to interact professionally with a diverse group are required. The expected base salary is $50.00 to $55.00 per hour. A competitive benefit package is also offered.
Requirements
- Strong hands-on expertise with Azure networking, hub-and-spoke architecture, and landing zone design.
- Advanced Terraform skills, including providers, modules, remote state, CI integration, and policy as code.
- Proficiency with GitHub Actions, reusable workflows, secrets, environments, approvals, and OIDC federation.
- Production experience with Docker, AKS, Kubernetes security, network policies, and workload scaling.
- Deep understanding of Linux internals, permissions, ACLs, namespaces, cgroups, storage drivers, and filesystems.
- Strong troubleshooting, automation, and infrastructure optimization skills.
- Proven experience designing and supporting Azure cloud infrastructure and enterprise landing zones.
- Demonstrated success implementing Terraform-based infrastructure and Git-based CI/CD pipelines.
- Hands-on experience deploying, securing, and troubleshooting production AKS clusters and containerized applications.
- Experience optimizing container images and resolving complex Linux, networking, and infrastructure issues.
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- Excellent verbal and written English communication skills and the ability to interact professionally with a diverse group.
Nice To Haves
- Relevant Azure, Kubernetes, Terraform, or DevOps certifications.
Responsibilities
- Design and implement secure Azure hub-and-spoke architectures, including VNets, peering, firewalls, routing, private endpoints, and landing zones.
- Develop and maintain Terraform infrastructure as code, including reusable modules, remote state, state management, and policy enforcement.
- Build and manage GitHub Actions CI/CD pipelines for automated builds, testing, security scanning, artifact management, and deployments.
- Deploy and operate Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) clusters and Docker containers, implementing security hardening, autoscaling, and resilient workloads.
- Optimize container images using multi-stage builds, minimal base images, and caching strategies.
- Troubleshoot Linux systems, container platforms, networking, storage, and production performance issues.
- Implement secure cloud infrastructure, governance, and deployment best practices.
Benefits
- A competitive benefit package is offered; specific benefits are not listed.
