Staff DevOps Engineer

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. Architect and continuously improve Azure DevOps CI/CD pipelines, including pipeline-as-code standards, templating strategies, and artifact promotion workflows .

Posted 9/17/2026full-timeRemote • United StatesLead💰 $190,000 - $235,000 per yearWebsite

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Core Competencies

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Demonstrates extensive expertise in Azure DevOps and AWS EKS, focusing on CI/CD pipeline architecture, Infrastructure-as-Code practices, and platform reliability improvements. Proficient in mentoring engineering teams and driving automation to enhance operational efficiency.

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Azure DevOps PipelinesAWS EKSKubernetesInfrastructure-as-CodeCI/CD Systems

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Hard Skills

PythonBashGoTerraformPulumiCDKYAML Pipeline AuthoringMicroservice ArchitecturesObservability PlatformsFeature Flag Patterns

Soft Skills

Excellent Written CommunicationMentoring

Tools & Technologies

New RelicDatadogPagerDutyConfluence

Industry Keywords

DevOpsPlatform EngineeringSREFinOpsGolden-Path Templates

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AWSAzureKubernetesNode.jsPythonTerraformGo

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Architect and continuously improve Azure DevOps CI/CD pipelines, including pipeline-as-code standards, templating strategies, and artifact promotion workflows
Own the health and evolution of AWS EKS clusters, including node lifecycle, autoscaling, networking, RBAC, and upgrades
Design and enforce Infrastructure-as-Code practices and champion GitOps patterns
Drive platform reliability improvements using New Relic observability data in partnership with SRE
Define and maintain golden-path templates for containerized workloads, including Dockerfile standards and Helm chart libraries
Partner with engineering teams to onboard services and reduce toil through automation
Escalate and coordinate complex infrastructure incidents through PagerDuty, participate in on-call rotation, and lead post-incident reviews
Identify recurring failure modes and drive fixes that reduce page volume and MTTR
Maintain runbooks and platform documentation in Confluence
Define and socialize DevOps standards for pipelines, containers, secrets, and deployment safety
Conduct architecture reviews and provide technical guidance
Mentor senior and mid-level engineers through pairing, code review, and knowledge sharing
Identify tooling gaps and build business cases for platform investments

Requirements

What you’ll need

8+ years of DevOps or platform engineering experience
At least 2 years operating at a Staff or Principal level in an organization of 100+ engineers
Deep, hands-on expertise with Kubernetes, specifically AWS EKS preferred, including workloads, networking, storage, and cluster operations at scale
Strong command of Azure DevOps Pipelines, including YAML pipeline authoring, library management, service connections, and environment promotion gates
Proven experience designing and maintaining CI/CD systems for microservice architectures with multiple independent teams
Experience operating observability platforms such as New Relic or Datadog to drive proactive reliability improvements
Proficiency in Python, Bash, or Go
Proficiency with Infrastructure-as-Code tooling such as Terraform, Pulumi, or CDK
Familiarity with feature flag patterns and progressive delivery; Unleash or equivalent is a plus
Excellent written communication skills
Experience with data engineering or ML infrastructure workloads on Kubernetes is preferred
Background contributing to or maintaining internal developer portals is preferred
Familiarity with FinOps practices and tooling for AWS cost attribution and optimization is preferred
Experience in SRE-adjacent roles and comfort with SLO/SLI definition and error budget policy is preferred

Benefits

Comp & perks

Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage
401(k) match
Generous PTO
Paid parental leave
Health and wellness programs
Tuition reimbursement
Employee discounts