Senior DevOps Engineer

Great Gray • Boston, MA

2d • $155,000 - $180,000 • Hybrid

About The Position

Great Gray is looking to add a Senior DevOps Engineer on our IT team. This is a newly-created engineer role which will aid in bringing critical platform capabilities in-house to support our rapid growth. The work will play a pivotal role in modernizing our infrastructure, leading our migration from Azure DevOps to GitHub Actions, and building a world-class developer experience.

Requirements

• 5+ years of DevOps/Platform/SRE experience, with significant time in Azure environments, including AKS, App Services, Virtual Machine Scale Sets, Azure Networking and Azure SQL.
• Kubernetes/AKS deployment strategies, cluster management, troubleshooting
• CI/CD expertise including GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps or similar
• Terraform writing modules, managing state and best practices
• Containerization, registries, Docker, security scanning
• Scripting & automation with PowerShell, Bash, Python or Go
• Monolith and microservices experience
• Experience with distributed tracing, metrics and logging platforms for observability
• MS SQL Server, Azure SQL backup, replication and performance tuning
• Problem-solving mindset
• Your standards reflect our core values: Growth Mindset, Disciplined Curiosity, Grit, Results Ownership, Collaboration.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain self-service tools and automation that empower engineering teams to ship faster with confidence
• Design and implement standards, patterns, and best practices for containerized and traditional applications
• Create documentation and runbooks that enable teams to own their services
• Champion DevOps culture and practices across engineering teams
• Lead a migration from Azure DevOps to GitHub Actions, designing robust, scalable pipeline architectures
• Mature existing CI/CD pipelines with improved testing, security scanning, and deployment strategies
• Implement blue-green and canary deployment patterns
• Build reusable pipeline templates and shared workflows
• Manage and optimize our Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) clusters
• Containerize legacy applications and design migration strategies from monoliths to microservices
• Work with Azure App Services, Virtual Machine Scale Sets, and networking infrastructure
• Implement and maintain service mesh patterns, monitoring, and observability
• Write and maintain Terraform modules for Azure infrastructure
• Automate infrastructure provisioning, configuration management, and scaling
• Modernize legacy infrastructure with Windows AD dependencies, SSRS, and SSIS workloads
• Design and implement auto-scaling strategies for applications currently lacking them
• Enhance monitoring and alerting using Application Insights, Azure Monitor, Prometheus/Grafana, Jaeger, and OpenTelemetry
• Build dashboards and SLO/SLI frameworks to measure system health
• Drive incident response processes and post-mortem culture
• Optimize application and infrastructure performance
• Complete other related duties as assigned

Benefits

• Be an integral part of an early-stage, high-growth organization!
• Hybrid work environment
• Competitive compensation package including 401(k) with elective and non-elective match opportunities
• Lifestyle spending allowance program
• Medical, Dental, Vision Insurance
• Employer-paid life and disability insurance
• Generous paid time off program

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed
• Number of Employees: 51-100 employees