DevOp Engineer - $60,000-$100,000/DOE - Missoula, Montana

ELM Utility Services • Missoula, MT

1d • $60,000 - $100,000 • Remote

About The Position

ELM Utility Services is an EEO Employer - M/F/Disability/Protected Veteran Status ELM Utility Services, with a team of over 1300 employees nationwide, is offering a great opportunity for a a DevOps Engineer in the Missoula, Montana area. This position can be offered as a remote position to the right candidate pending interview. As a DevOps Engineer you job will be to strengthen how we build, ship, and operate our systems in Azure. This role is hands-on and focused on engineering enablement: CI/CD, infrastructure automation, observability, reliability, and secure operations. We use Azure and Azure DevOps (Repos, Pipelines, Boards, Artifacts, Wiki, etc.) plus Datadog as our primary monitoring/observability platform. Our Total Rewards Package Includes: Optional benefits like Medical, Dental, Vision, Life, Disability, FSA, H.S.A., and Teledoc. Company Paid Life Insurance Paid-Time Off (PTO) for vacation and sick time (Accrues up to 80 hours per full year and increases with years of service.) 6 Paid Holidays 401(k) plan Bonuses for milestone anniversaries Competitive pay based on experience Long history of stable employment and promoting from within Opportunity to lead and modernize production systems with meaningful operational impact

Requirements

• 1–5+ years in DevOps, SRE, platform engineering, or systems engineering with strong software delivery ownership
• Experience supporting production systems with on-call/incident response expectations (formal or informal)
• Cloud fundamentals (compute, networking, identity, logging/monitoring patterns, resource governance)
• Azure DevOps (Pipelines, Repos, Boards, Artifacts; environment approvals; service connections)
• Datadog (monitors, dashboards, logs, APM/tracing, alert routing, tagging strategy)
• CI/CD best practices: build/test automation, deployment strategies, environment promotion, rollback patterns

Nice To Haves

• Container workflows (Docker, ACR, containerized deployments)
• Azure security tooling familiarity (Defender for Cloud concepts, key management, conditional access patterns)
• Database delivery patterns (migrations, DACPACs, schema change controls)
• Familiarity with GitHub Advanced Security or similar scanning tools (if applicable)

Responsibilities

• CI/CD & Release Engineering (core)
• Design, build, and maintain Azure DevOps Pipelines for applications and data services (build/test/release)
• Standardize pipeline templates, approvals, environments, and promotion strategies across teams
• Improve release reliability: versioning, automated checks, rollback strategies, and deployment validation
• Support repo workflows in Azure DevOps (branch policies, PR checks, code quality gates)
• Improve platform consistency: reusable modules, baseline policies, and repeatable patterns
• Observability & Reliability (core)
• Own Datadog observability practices across services: dashboards, monitors, alert routing, SLOs, log/trace/metric strategy
• Improve troubleshooting and operational readiness: runbooks, incident response workflows, post-incident improvements
• Drive performance and reliability improvements in partnership with engineering (capacity signals, latency/error budgets)
• Security & Compliance Enablement (core-to-growing)
• Implement secure CI/CD practices: secret management, least privilege service principals, pipeline permissions, artifact integrity
• Support vulnerability management in the delivery pipeline (dependency scanning, code scanning, baseline hardening)
• Help enforce environment controls: approvals, change tracking, auditability, and access standards
• Developer Enablement (core)
• Create self-service tooling and standards that make teams faster (templates, docs, golden paths)
• Partner with engineers to improve build times, test stability, deployment confidence, and operational maturity
• Support internal platform documentation (Azure DevOps Wiki/runbooks) and knowledge sharing

Benefits

• Medical, Dental, Vision, Life, Disability, FSA, H.S.A., and Teledoc
• Company Paid Life Insurance
• Paid-Time Off (PTO) for vacation and sick time (Accrues up to 80 hours per full year and increases with years of service.)
• 6 Paid Holidays
• 401(k) plan
• Bonuses for milestone anniversaries
• Competitive pay based on experience
• Long history of stable employment and promoting from within
• Opportunity to lead and modernize production systems with meaningful operational impact

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed