Senior Azure DevOps Engineer

Senior Azure DevOps Engineer

AI Deployments Focus

Chicago, IL - hybrid WFH (3 days onsite in the loop, 2 days WFH)

Summary

The Senior Azure DevOps Engineer sits on a newly created AI Engineering team, and is focused on building CI / CD pipelines and the necessary infrastructure in an Azure environment, to deploy, run and scale AI models and ML applications.

This individual will support DevOps, Site Reliability and Azure infrastructure to support these AI workloads.

We leverage IaC extensively, specifically ARM, Bicep and Terraform. So we are looking for individuals that have strong IaC experience.

What you'll be doing

• Design, implement, and optimize CI / CD pipelines in Azure DevOps to drive efficient, reliable releases.
• Build automated testing and monitoring into the deployment pipeline to ensure robust, resilient system performance.
• Identify and prioritize opportunities to streamline deployment and increase reliability through automation.
• Regularly assess and improve deployment processes, tooling, and infrastructure management strategies.
• Establish and monitor key performance indicators to track team output, system stability, and improvement impact.
• Proactively explore emerging Azure services, IaC tools, and DevOps methodologies to evolve cloud practices.
• Work closely with Development, Infrastructure, and Security teams to align cloud solutions with broader organizational needs.
• Offer hands-on technical support and mentorship to other departments as needed, reinforcing DevOps best practices.
• Lead incident management and post-mortem processes, driving root-cause analysis and solutions to prevent recurrence.
• Lead by example in the deployment and configuration of Azure resources, demonstrating best practices in IaC with ARM, Bicep, and / or Terraform.
• Develop reusable, modular IaC templates to enable consistent, reliable deployments across environments.
• Maintain and share advanced knowledge of Azure resources, including Azure AD, networking, security, and identity management configurations.
• Actively lead, mentor, and develop a DevOps team, balancing hands-on responsibilities with team guidance to advance DevOps excellence.

Skills we're seeking

Nice to haves