Senior DevOps Specialist Deerfield, IL FulltimeFTE

Must Have Technical/Functional Skills

• 5 years of DevOps platform engineering or build/release engineering experience in large enterprise environments.
• 3 years of deep hands-on experience with Azure DevOps and/or GitHub Enterprise in an enterprise multi-team context.
• Expert-level proficiency in infrastructure-as-code: Terraform required; Bicep strongly preferred.
• Strong experience with containerization and AKS: Helm chart development Kustomize namespace management and workload identity.
• Proficiency in scripting: PowerShell and/or Python; experience with Azure CLI and REST APIs.
• Proven experience implementing DevSecOps toolchains in regulated enterprise environments.
• Working knowledge of enterprise Azure networking as it pertains to deployment pipelines:
• Private Endpoints self-hosted agents in VNets ExpressRoute-connected environments

Required/Preferred Certifications:

AZ-400 (Highly Desirable) AZ-104 AZ-305 CKA (Beneficial) GitHub Actions Certification

Roles & Responsibilities
CI/CD Pipeline Engineering

• Design build and operate enterprise CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps Pipelines (YAML-based multi-stage) and GitHub Actions supporting 50 development teams across the organization.
• Implement and enforce DevSecOps gates: SAST/DAST scanning (Microsoft Defender for DevOps Snyk) dependency auditing secrets detection and container image scanning via Microsoft Defender for Containers.
• Develop reusable pipeline templates task groups and shared library components to standardize delivery across all Azure DevOps organizations.
• Champion shift-left quality practices: au tomated unit/integration/performance testing integrated into deployment pipelines with quality gates

Infrastructure Automation & Cloud Engineering

• Own and extend the organizations Azure infrastructure-as-code estate using Terraform and Bicep; manage state backends in Azure Storage with Terraform Cloud/Atlantis.
• Design and maintain Azure Landing Zone configurations including Management Group hierarchy Azure Policy initiatives RBAC assignments and Subscription vending automation.
• Automate provisioning and lifecycle management of Azure PaaS services: AKS Azure SQL Azure Service Bus Storage Accounts Key Vault and App Services.
• Integrate infrastructure pipelines with enterprise CMDB (ServiceNow) for automated asset registration and compliance reporting.

Release Management & GitOps

Define and govern enterprise release management processes branching strategies (trunk-based development) and GitOps workflows using ArgoCD or Flux on AKS.

Manage Azure Artifacts feeds for NuGet npm Maven and container image artefacts across the enterprise; implement retention and promotion policies.

Platform Reliability & Operational Excellence

• Define and monitor DevOps DORA metrics (Deployment Frequency Lead Time MTTR Change Failure Rate) and publish dashboards to engineering leadership.
• Collaborate with the SRE team to implement progressive delivery patterns: blue/green deployments canary releases and feature flag management using Azure App Configuration.
• Manage Azure cost efficiency for CI/CD infrastructure: Microsoft-hosted and self-hosted agent pools ephemeral build agents and pipeline optimization for build minutes.

Governance Security & Compliance

• Ensure all pipelines and infrastructure comply with enterprise security standards including CIS Benchmarks for Azure Microsoft Cloud Security Benchmark (MCSB) and internal control frameworks.
• Maintain pipeline audit trails and artefact provenance in alignment with SOC 2 ISO 2700 1 and regulatory requirements.