DevOps Engineer – Azure Platform

• Bachelors degree in computer science Information Technology or related field preferred.
• 5 years of experience in DevOps Cloud Engineering or Platform Engineering.
• Strong hands-on expertise with Azure Cloud services and architecture concepts.
• Proficiency with IaC tools: Terraform and Bicep (ARM optional).
• Advanced experience building CI/CD pipelines in Azure DevOps and GitHub.
• Experience supporting and deploying to AKS and containerized environments.
• Knowledge of AI/ML workflows model deployment or MLOps concepts (preferred but not required).
• Experience with Chef Ansible or similar configuration management tooling.
• Strong scripting skills with PowerShell Bash or Python.
• Solid understanding of cloud networking security identity and governance.
• Excellent troubleshooting skills for complex distributed systems.
• Experience with Azure landing zone patterns or enterprise cloud foundations.
• Familiarity with GitOps practices (Flux ArgoCD) is a plus.
• Certifications such as Azure Administrator DevOps Engineer Expert or Solutions Architect.
• Experience supporting multi-team cloud environments or platform-as-a-service enablement.

The estimated annual salary for this position ranges from $99736 to $130000. Actual compensation will vary based on factors including but not limited to the candidates skills experience and qualifications. Geographic differentials may also apply depending on the positions location. There is no application deadline for this role; recruitment will remain open until the position is filled.

Benefits & Perks:

401K with Company Match Profit Sharing Health Insurance Employee Assistance Program Life Insurance Paid Time Off Tuition Reimbursement 30% Employee Discount Employee Referral Bonuses.

UniFirst is an international leader in garment & Uniform services industry. We currently employ over 14000 team partners who serve 300000 business customer locations throughout the U.S. Canada and Europe.

We were included in the top 10 of Selling Power magazines Best Companies to Sell For list and recognized on Forbes magazines Platinum 400 Best Big Companies list. As an 80-year old company focused on annual growth theres never been a better time to join our team.

UniFirst is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate in hiring or employment against any individual on the basis of race color gender national origin ancestry religion physical or mental disability age veteran status sexual orientation gender identity or expression marital status pregnancy citizenship or any other factor protected by anti-discrimination laws

We are seeking an experienced DevOps Engineer (Azure Platform) to join our Cloud and Platform Engineering this role you will build automate and support Azure cloud environments that power complex enterprise applications and emerging AI workloads. You will enable development teams with a reliable secure and scalable cloud platform through strong DevOps infrastructure-as-code and CI/CD engineering.

Responsibilities:

• Build deploy and manage Azure resources using Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform Bicep ARM).
• Implement reusable modules and environment patterns to support application teams.
• Support platform services including compute networking storage identity and governance controls.
• Deploy and maintain Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) container registries and container-based workloads.
• Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps and GitHub.
• Automate build test release and deployment workflows for cloud-native and AI applications.
• Integrate automated quality gates security scanning and artifact management.
• Use Chef (or similar configuration management tools) to automate provisioning configuration and compliance
• Implement monitoring logging metrics and tracing using Azure Monitor Log Analytics and App Insights.
• Build dashboards and alerts to proactively manage performance reliability and availability.
• Participate in on-call responsibilities to support critical services and resolve platform-impacting issues.
• Work closely with cloud architects platform engineers security teams and application developers.
• Ensure DevOps best practices are adopted across projects and platforms.
• Contribute to the continuous improvement of cloud platform automation standards and delivery workflows.