DevOps Engineer – Azure Platform

UniFirst•Wilmington, MA

15h•$99,736 - $130,000

About The Position

We are seeking an experienced DevOps Engineer (Azure Platform) to join our Cloud and Platform Engineering organization. In this role, you will build, automate, and support Azure cloud environments that power complex enterprise applications and emerging AI workloads. You will enable development teams with a reliable, secure, and scalable cloud platform through strong DevOps, infrastructure-as-code, and CI/CD engineering.

Requirements

5+ years of experience in DevOps, Cloud Engineering, or Platform Engineering.
Strong hands-on expertise with Azure Cloud services and architecture concepts.
Proficiency with IaC tools: Terraform and Bicep (ARM optional).
Advanced experience building CI/CD pipelines in Azure DevOps and GitHub.
Experience supporting and deploying to AKS and containerized environments.
Experience with Chef, Ansible, or similar configuration management tooling.
Strong scripting skills with PowerShell, Bash, or Python.
Solid understanding of cloud networking, security, identity, and governance.
Excellent troubleshooting skills for complex distributed systems.
Experience with Azure landing zone patterns or enterprise cloud foundations.
Certifications such as Azure Administrator, DevOps Engineer Expert, or Solutions Architect.

Nice To Haves

Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Technology, or related field preferred.
Knowledge of AI/ML workflows, model deployment, or MLOps concepts (preferred but not required).
Familiarity with GitOps practices (Flux, ArgoCD) is a plus.
Experience supporting multi-team cloud environments or platform-as-a-service enablement.

Responsibilities

Build, deploy, and manage Azure resources using Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform, Bicep, ARM).
Implement reusable modules and environment patterns to support application teams.
Support platform services including compute, networking, storage, identity, and governance controls.
Deploy and maintain Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), container registries, and container-based workloads.
Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps and GitHub.
Automate build, test, release, and deployment workflows for cloud-native and AI applications.
Integrate automated quality gates, security scanning, and artifact management.
Use Chef (or similar configuration management tools) to automate provisioning, configuration, and compliance
Implement monitoring, logging, metrics, and tracing using Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, and App Insights.
Build dashboards and alerts to proactively manage performance, reliability, and availability.
Participate in on-call responsibilities to support critical services and resolve platform-impacting issues.
Work closely with cloud architects, platform engineers, security teams, and application developers.
Ensure DevOps best practices are adopted across projects and platforms.
Contribute to the continuous improvement of cloud platform automation, standards, and delivery workflows.