Azure DevOps Engineer

Sonatype

About The Position

Sonatype is seeking an Azure DevOps Engineer to play a critical role in designing, automating, and scaling the company's engineering platform and delivery systems on Azure. This role involves leading infrastructure and CI/CD modernization, improving reliability and security, and guiding engineering teams on platform engineering and DevOps best practices. The position is crucial for creating the engineering foundation that enables teams to ship software securely, reliably, and quickly, influencing platform capabilities, developer experience, and DevSecOps maturity on Azure. The engineer will work at the intersection of infrastructure, automation, security, and developer enablement, directly impacting product velocity and operational excellence.

Requirements

Strong experience with Azure DevOps and CI/CD pipeline design for multiple application stacks and deployment patterns.
Deep hands-on expertise with Microsoft Azure, including compute, networking, identity, storage, monitoring, and security services.
Experience with Infrastructure as Code using Terraform, Bicep, ARM, or equivalent automation frameworks.
Proficiency with containers and orchestration platforms such as Docker and Kubernetes, preferably with AKS experience.
Experience with scripting and automation using Python, Bash, PowerShell, or similar languages.
Solid understanding of source control workflows, package management, artifact promotion, and release strategies.
Experience implementing observability, logging, alerting, and operational dashboards for production systems.
Strong understanding of cloud security, IAM, secrets management, compliance controls, and secure software delivery practices.
Excellent collaboration and communication skills, with the ability to influence technical direction across teams.

Nice To Haves

Experience with GitHub, SonarQube, Nexus Repository, or software supply chain security tooling.
Familiarity with multi-cloud environments and migration patterns from AWS or on-premises platforms.
Exposure to policy-as-code, platform engineering, developer portals, or internal developer platform concepts.
Experience supporting regulated or enterprise-scale environments with strong governance requirements.

Responsibilities

Design, implement, and evolve Azure-based infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code with Terraform, Bicep, or ARM templates.
Build and maintain scalable CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps Pipelines for application, infrastructure, and platform workloads.
Administer and optimize Azure DevOps services, including Azure Repos, Pipelines, Artifacts, Boards, and service connections.
Partner with engineering teams to improve build, release, and deployment workflows across microservices and cloud-native applications.
Implement robust observability across systems using Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, Application Insights, and related monitoring tooling.
Strengthen platform security by integrating secrets management, policy enforcement, vulnerability scanning, and least-privilege access controls.
Manage and optimize containerized environments using Kubernetes, Helm, and Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS).
Drive reliability engineering practice, including incident responses, root cause analysis, SLO thinking, and automated remediation, where appropriate.
Standardize reusable templates, modules, and platform patterns that improve developer productivity and consistency.
Mentor engineers and provide technical leadership on Azure architecture, deployment automation, release governance, and DevSecOps practices.