Sr. Azure DevOps and SRE Engineer

Berlin Packaging•Chicago, IL

3d•$120,000 - $140,000•Onsite

About The Position

Berlin Packaging is seeking a Senior DevOps & Site Reliability Engineer to join their technology team. This role will be hands-on in managing and enhancing the company's cloud platforms, which are crucial for customer-facing applications, APIs, and enterprise systems. The engineer will be responsible for creating CI/CD pipelines and the Terraform-based Azure platform for various applications, ensuring their reliability, observability, security, and performance in production. This position requires a high degree of autonomy and collaboration with onshore and offshore development, architecture, integration, security, and infrastructure teams. The ideal candidate will bring deep technical expertise, elevate engineering and operational standards, and own deliverables end-to-end.

Requirements

8+ years of DevOps, cloud infrastructure, SRE, platform engineering, or related experience, including 3+ years in production reliability/SRE responsibilities.
Proven experience creating Azure DevOps CI/CD pipelines end-to-end: multi-stage YAML, reusable templates, environments, approvals, gates, agents, service connections, artifacts, and deployment strategies.
Strong Git experience with Azure Repos and/or GitHub; GitHub Actions experience is a plus.
Hands-on experience building and deploying React and Next.js applications, including Node.js/npm/pnpm builds, static export, SSR/ISR, and hybrid rendering, plus .NET / ASP.NET Core web applications.
Experience deploying and supporting Azure Static Web Apps.
Advanced Terraform experience on Azure, including module design, state management, remote backends, workspaces, environment promotion, drift detection, and pipeline-driven deployments.
Deep Azure experience with App Service, Static Web Apps, AKS/Container Apps, Functions, Front Door/CDN, Application Gateway/WAF, VNets/Private Endpoints, Key Vault, Entra ID, managed identities, RBAC, Azure Policy, and Azure Monitor.
Working experience with Azure API Management deployments and configuration, including APIOps concepts.
Hands-on experience with MuleSoft Anypoint Platform deployments, CloudHub 2.0, Maven-based CI/CD, MUnit, Runtime Manager, and API Manager.
Experience implementing DevSecOps practices throughout CI/CD pipelines, including SAST, SCA, IaC, container, secret, and dependency scanning.
Strong observability experience with Azure Monitor, Application Insights, Log Analytics/KQL, alerting, dashboarding, distributed tracing, and performance monitoring.
Hands-on SRE practices including SLOs/SLIs, incident management, on-call, postmortems, capacity planning, resilience, and disaster recovery.
Strong scripting and automation skills in PowerShell, Bash, and/or Python, plus solid knowledge of REST APIs, DNS, TLS/certificates, networking, HTTP, and authentication.
Working knowledge of AI-assisted development and operations tools such as GitHub Copilot, Claude Code, or comparable enterprise AI tooling.
Ability to apply AI responsibly to DevOps automation, troubleshooting, documentation, and operational workflows, with appropriate human review and security controls.
Strong troubleshooting, communication, collaboration, technical leadership, and mentoring skills.
Foster a culture of collaboration, creativity, accountability, teamwork, and continuous improvement and fulfill the employee and manager portions of the Berlin Values.

Nice To Haves

DevOps, cloud, security, or AI certifications such as Microsoft AZ-400, AZ-500, HashiCorp Terraform Associate, CKA/CKS, or equivalent experience.
Experience with Microsoft Defender for Cloud/DevOps, GitHub Advanced Security, SonarQube, Snyk, Checkov/tfsec, Trivy, or comparable security tooling.
Strong working knowledge of React, Next.js, TypeScript, Node.js, npm/pnpm, and frontend build/runtime troubleshooting.
Experience with Jest, Playwright/Cypress, Lighthouse CI, and automated quality/performance testing in pipelines.
Experience with GitOps, Flux/Argo CD, Helm, Docker, Kubernetes, and AKS.
Experience with Azure Load Testing, JMeter, k6, or comparable load/performance testing tools.
Experience supporting high-traffic eCommerce platforms and web performance optimization.
Experience with AI coding and DevOps tools including GitHub Copilot, Claude Code, Cursor, Azure AI, or comparable tools.
Understanding of LLMs, prompt engineering, RAG, AI agents/agentic workflows, and tool/API integration patterns.
Experience building AI-assisted or agentic automation for incident response, observability, CI/CD, infrastructure management, or developer productivity.
Experience with Azure OpenAI/Azure AI Foundry or comparable enterprise AI platforms is a plus.
Experience with FinOps, cloud cost optimization, policy-as-code, and platform governance.

Responsibilities

Design and create Azure DevOps (ADO) CI/CD pipelines from scratch using multi-stage YAML, including reusable templates, variable groups, service connections, environments, approvals and gates, and agents.
Create build and release pipelines for .NET / ASP.NET Core, React, and Next.js applications.
Deploy and operate Azure Static Web Apps, including custom domains, PR staging environments, linked APIs, and Azure Functions.
Host Next.js SSR workloads on App Service, Container Apps, or AKS, with caching and edge delivery.
Build and manage Azure infrastructure as code with Terraform, including reusable modules, remote state, and pipeline-driven deployments.
Automate Azure API Management configuration and deployments using APIOps practices.
Create DevOps pipelines for MuleSoft on CloudHub 2.0.
Build DevSecOps into every pipeline using SAST, SCA, IaC scanning, container image scanning, secret management, managed identities, RBAC, and policy-as-code.
Define branching, release, and deployment strategies such as trunk-based development, blue/green, and canary deployments.
Establish build-once/promote-many practices and standardized promotion across environments.
Use Generative AI and AI-assisted engineering tools to accelerate DevOps, infrastructure, troubleshooting, documentation, and automation.
Develop practical AI-assisted workflows for pipeline creation, Terraform development, YAML troubleshooting, log analysis, and incident investigation.
Explore and implement agentic DevOps capabilities for pipeline failure analysis, incident summarization, and automated task execution.
Use AI to improve developer experience, platform self-service, operational knowledge, and engineering productivity.
Evaluate AI-generated code, infrastructure definitions, and operational recommendations for correctness, security, and compliance.
Define and track SLIs and SLOs for frontend applications, APIM gateway, and MuleSoft APIs.
Build observability with Azure Monitor, Application Insights, Log Analytics/KQL, including dashboards, distributed tracing, and actionable alerts.
Monitor and tune performance and availability for customer-facing web traffic, APIM throughput and latency, and integration flows.
Lead incident response, participate in on-call, provide L2/L3 production support, and run blameless postmortems.
Drive high availability, disaster recovery, resilience, capacity planning, and performance engineering.
Reduce operational toil through automation, self-service tooling, runbooks, and AI-assisted operational workflows.
Manage and optimize cloud platform cost through resource governance, monitoring, rightsizing, and FinOps practices.
Lead technical design, code reviews, pipeline and platform standards, and mentoring.
Work with architects and application, integration, security, and business teams to deliver scalable and reliable solutions.

Benefits

Competitive PTO including vacation, personal days, holidays, and sick time
1Berlin Shared Ownership Plan
Profit sharing
401(k) with company match
Medical, Dental, and Vision insurance
Health Savings Account (HSA)
Flexible spending accounts (FSAs) for transportation, medical, and dependent care expenses
Paid parental leave for up to 12 weeks
Health club reimbursement
Tuition reimbursement
529 college savings plan
Employee Assistance Program for mental health and well-being
Calm app to improve mental wellbeing
Employee referral program
Company sponsored short- and long-term disability and life insurance with optional voluntary life insurance