DevOps Engineer

Find•Cincinnati, OH

5d•Hybrid

About The Position

We’re looking for an infrastructure engineer who builds and ships. This is not a role for someone who hands off design documents or lives only in architecture diagrams. You’ll support production infrastructure across AWS, Azure, and on-prem environments, troubleshoot real issues, optimize underperforming systems, and automate work so teams can move faster. Deep infrastructure expertise comes first. We encourage engineers to leverage AI-assisted engineering tools to accelerate infrastructure development, automation, troubleshooting, and documentation. Experience with Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, Cursor, or similar tools is beneficial, but infrastructure expertise and operational problem-solving are the primary qualifications for success. This is a hands-on engineering role. Expect approximately 80% of your time to be spent building, automating, troubleshooting, and improving infrastructure across AWS, Azure, and on-prem environments, with limited meeting overhead.

Requirements

5+ years hands-on infrastructure experience across cloud and/or on-prem environments (AWS, Azure, or hybrid)
Strong SQL Server / Azure SQL / AWS RDS skills: query optimization, index tuning, execution plans, stored procedures
Strong Terraform and/or CloudFormation experience: modules, workspaces, remote state, provider configuration
Strong PowerShell: Azure modules, SQL Server modules, REST API calls, error handling, module development
Windows Server administration: operational and administration experience in cloud and hybrid environments
AWS and Azure networking depth: VPCs, Direct Connect, VNets, peering, Private Link, DNS, NSGs, routing, hybrid connectivity
Experience with or openness to AI-assisted engineering tools (Claude Code, Copilot, Cursor) to improve speed and quality
Git workflows: branching strategies, PR reviews, merge conflict resolution
Experience with FedRAMP, CMMC, or similar compliance frameworks
Comfortable debugging production issues under pressure—databases, networking, or infrastructure
U.S. Citizenship is required.
Ability to gain and maintain Trusted Role is required.

Nice To Haves

Azure certifications (AZ-104, AZ-305, AZ-500, DP-300)
Experience with database migrations, version control for schema changes (Flyway, Liquibase, or similar)
Bicep experience in addition to Terraform
GitHub Actions or Azure DevOps pipeline development
Python scripting for automation and tooling
Experience with Azure PIM, Conditional Access, and identity governance
Container platforms: AKS, Container Apps, Docker
Background in defense, aerospace, or highly regulated industries
You've already changed how you work because of AI tools. You don't just use autocomplete—you've figured out how to prompt for entire infrastructure patterns, optimize complex SQL queries, and iterate faster than you ever could manually. You have opinions about which AI tools work best for different tasks.
You prefer automation over manual effort. When you see a team doing something repetitive, your instinct is to automate it. When you see documentation that's out of date, you think about how to generate it from the source of truth.
You can context-switch. Monday might be debugging a DNS forwarding issue. Tuesday might be optimizing a slow stored procedure. Wednesday might be writing a Terraform module for a new service. Thursday might be helping a developer understand why their app can't reach a database.
You're comfortable across the stack.

Responsibilities

Build and ship infrastructure.
Support production infrastructure across AWS, Azure, and on-prem environments.
Troubleshoot real issues.
Optimize underperforming systems.
Automate work so teams can move faster.
Build Infrastructure as Code at Scale.
Develop Infrastructure-as-code solutions supporting AWS, Azure, and on-prem environments using Terraform and/or CloudFormation—networking, compute, storage, identity, databases, monitoring.
Generate AI-assisted Terraform modules with automated testing, documentation, and compliance validation.
Implement state management patterns for multi-environment deployments (dev/QA/staging/prod) with proper isolation.
Implement drift detection and remediation automation.
Support SQL Server, Azure SQL, MySQL, and AWS RDS performance—query optimization, index strategies, execution plan analysis.
Implement zero/minimal-downtime database migrations with automated rollback strategies.
Optimize and refactor stored procedures with proper error handling and logging.
Implement automated maintenance: index rebuilds, statistics updates, consistency checks, backup validation.
Perform Query Store analysis and AI-assisted performance troubleshooting.
Configure AWS & Azure Networking & Hybrid Connectivity (Hub-and-spoke and VPC architectures with proper segmentation for FedRAMP and compliance boundaries, Private Link configurations, DNS forwarding, and service endpoint strategies, AWS Direct Connect and Azure ExpressRoute, VPN connectivity for hybrid scenarios, Azure Firewall and NSG policies with AI-assisted rule generation and audit, ZScaler integration and troubleshooting for secure internet egress).
Develop PowerShell modules for Azure resource management, database operations, reporting, and remediation.
Develop Bash scripts for Linux workloads and CI/CD pipeline integration.
Develop Python utilities for API integrations, data processing, and custom tooling.
Generate AI-assisted scripts with proper error handling, logging, and testing.
Configure Operational Excellence (Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, and Application Insights, database and infrastructure alerting that's actionable, not noise, runbooks and automation for common remediation tasks, cost analysis and optimization—Reserved Instances, right-sizing, orphaned resources).