Azure DevOps Engineer

Alight•Virtual, IL

1d•$100,000 - $135,000•Remote

About The Position

This role is for a Senior DevOps Engineer responsible for designing, building, and scaling cloud infrastructure and CI/CD capabilities that support healthcare applications and services. The position requires hands-on expertise across Azure and AWS, infrastructure automation with Terraform, YAML-based pipelines, and DevOps platforms such as Azure DevOps (ADO) and GitHub. The role supports services provided to the federal government or a federal government contractor, thus requiring US Citizenship.

Requirements

3+ 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).
Have completed a program of study typically requiring four years of post-secondary education or higher educational attainment in Computer Science or a technical related field.
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

Familiarity 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; familiarity 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 remediating complex production issues, performing root cause analysis and implementing long-term fixes.
Includes weekend work for planned releases and on-call rotations.