Azure DevOps Engineer Onsite in Columbus, Ohio | W2 Position

Role: DevOps Engineer

Location: 4 Days onsite Columbus Ohio

Job Description

Overview

We are seeking a DevOps Engineer to design automate and optimize our cloud infrastructure CI/CD pipelines and observability ecosystem. This role focuses on Azure DevOps Terraform based infrastructure containerization and Kubernetes with strong emphasis on monitoring logging and system reliability.

Key Responsibilities

• Azure DevOps Pipelines - Build maintain and optimize CI/CD pipelines supporting application deployments and infrastructure automation.
• Infrastructure as Code - Use Terraform to provision manage and scale cloud resources including containerized workloads and Kubernetes clusters.
• Containerization & Kubernetes - Implement and support container orchestration ensuring seamless integration between software and underlying hardware.
• Observability & Monitoring - Manage and enhance the observability stack using tools such as Splunk Datadog Prometheus ELK and Grafana.
• Logging & Alerting - Configure log pipelines dashboards and alerting rules to ensure system reliability and rapid incident response.
• Automation - Automate repetitive tasks environment provisioning and deployment workflows to improve engineering velocity.
• Cross Functional Collaboration - Partner with development QA and platform teams to ensure smooth delivery and operational excellence.

Required Skills & Experience

• Azure Cloud - Hands on experience with Azure DevOps Azure services and cloud native architectures.
• Terraform Expertise - Strong proficiency in Terraform for IaC and environment provisioning.
• Kubernetes - Experience deploying scaling and managing workloads in Kubernetes clusters.
• CI/CD - Proven experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines.
• Observability Tools - Experience with Splunk (primary) plus familiarity with Datadog Prometheus ELK or Grafana.
• Scripting - Proficiency in scripting languages (e.g. Bash PowerShell Python) for automation and tooling.
• Systems Integration - Ability to integrate software systems with underlying hardware and infrastructure components.

Preferred Qualifications

• Container Security - Knowledge of container security best practices and vulnerability scanning.
• Monitoring Architecture - Experience designing dashboards SLIs/SLOs and alerting strategies.
• Performance Optimization - Ability to analyze system performance and optimize resource usage.