Mid DevOps Engineer

ZipStaff•Grand Rapids, MI

11d•Remote

About The Position

ZipStaff is seeking a Mid DevOps Engineer for release engineering and Azure PaaS delivery at a major grocery and retail organization. You will own cross-team deployments, automate Azure App Service / Function App paths, and migrate pipelines from Azure DevOps to GitHub Actions. This is a build-and-automate seat—not a console operator. Night releases run 2–3 nights per week.

Requirements

2–4 years DevOps, release engineering, or cloud engineering with software-engineering fundamentals.
Azure PaaS: Function Apps, App Service, networking, Key Vault.
Deep GitHub Actions plus Azure DevOps Pipelines.
Release engineering across teams with shared dependencies.
Production deployments for infrastructure, .NET , and Maven.
Scripting: PowerShell, Python, Bash.
Able to build, run, and debug apps in C#/.NET, Java, Node.js, or TypeScript.
Willing to support night releases 2–3 nights per week.
Must be legally authorized to work in the United States without sponsorship now or in the future.

Nice To Haves

Kubernetes and GitOps (Argo CD); Canary / Blue-Green.
GCP.
Terraform / YAML IaC.
SAFe.
Kafka, GraphQL, Temporal, LaunchDarkly, SonarQube, Backstage, or mobile-app release.

Responsibilities

Plan, coordinate, and execute releases that span multiple teams and shared release trains.
Build and improve automated deployment paths for Azure PaaS (App Service, Function Apps), including networking, identity, and secrets.
Migrate pipelines and repos from Azure DevOps to GitHub Actions; create repeatable templates.
Build and maintain GitHub Actions CI/CD for secure, repeatable delivery.
Write PowerShell, Python, and Bash to remove manual steps.
Create self-service templates for repos, pipelines, and containers.
Enable agile teams to run their own delivery—set them up, unblock them, hand the capability back.
Troubleshoot builds and deployments; support night releases 2–3 nights per week.
Contribute documentation and guardrails for security and reliability.