Senior DevOps Engineer, Applications

WME | William Morris Endeavor • Washington, DC

3d • $131,250 - $175,000

About The Position

WME is building the next generation of internal platforms that power one of the world's leading entertainment companies. We're looking for a Senior Dev Ops Engineer who is equally comfortable designing cloud infrastructure and improving system reliability. The software we build helps agents and teams manage relationships, deals, and opportunities across the global entertainment industry — and keeping it fast, available, and observable is critical work. You'll own the infrastructure and reliability story end-to-end: provisioning cloud resources, maintaining Kubernetes deployments, improving CI/CD pipelines, and building the observability that lets engineers move fast with confidence. We're in an active migration from a legacy system, so you'll be operating both the new platform and supporting the transition as we move module by module. We're building this engineering organization largely from the ground up. If you like greenfield infrastructure work, have opinions about how platforms should be built, and want to shape how a team ships software, this is the role.

Requirements

• Solid DevOps or platform engineering experience, typically 5+ years
• Strong hands-on experience with Azure (AKS, Azure AD, managed databases, blob storage, networking)
• Terraform experience — writing, organizing, and maintaining infrastructure as code at scale
• Kubernetes and Helm experience managing production workloads
• Experience building and operating CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, or similar)
• PostgreSQL experience — operational management, migrations, and performance tuning
• Solid understanding of observability tooling (Datadog, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, or equivalent)
• Experience with incident response and driving reliability improvements from postmortems
• Docker and container image management experience
• Familiarity with secrets management tools (Azure Key Vault, Vault, or equivalent)
• Comfortable working in environments where systems and processes are still evolving

Responsibilities

• Own and evolve Azure infrastructure using Terraform — networking, compute, managed services, and secrets
• Manage Kubernetes clusters and Helm-based deployments for a distributed microservices platform
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions / Azure DevOps) that keep deployments fast and safe
• Define and improve observability: metrics, logging, alerting, and tracing across services
• Lead incident response — drive resolution, write postmortems, and follow through on reliability improvements
• Manage PostgreSQL infrastructure: backups, replication, failover, and query performance
• Collaborate closely with engineers to improve local development environments and deployment workflows
• Enforce security best practices: secrets management, network policies, access controls, and vulnerability scanning

Benefits

• health care
• retirement
• vacation
• other paid time off
• additional offerings

What This Job Offers

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