Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Kopius is a technology company that helps partners innovate through digital strategy, design, and engineering. The Sr DevOps Engineer will lead Infrastructure as Code for an Azure-based platform, architect cloud infrastructure with Terraform, and establish secure CI/CD pipelines for a multi-tenant architecture. The role also involves automating Azure deployments, implementing security and monitoring infrastructure, and enabling zero-downtime releases.
Responsibilities
- Design and implement Terraform modules for Azure resources: Application Gateways, Container Apps, VNets, and managed databases
- Develop reusable Terraform configurations for ArangoDB, Azure SQL Database, and Blob Storage
- Manage Terraform state and promote infrastructure code through environments
- Create self-service infrastructure provisioning for development teams
- Establish infrastructure testing and drift detection
- Build and maintain end-to-end CI/CD pipelines for application, microservices, and infrastructure deployments
- Implement automated testing, security scanning, and quality gates
- Establish deployment strategies such as blue-green and canary for zero-downtime releases
- Create pipeline-as-code configurations using Azure DevOps or GitHub Actions
- Optimize build times while maintaining security standards
- Automate Azure Container Apps deployments and Application Gateway configurations
- Implement network security, Azure Firewall rules, and Key Vault integration via IaC
- Configure Auth0 SSO and site-to-site VPN connections
- Deploy monitoring infrastructure and log aggregation systems
Skills
- Able to lead a technical initiative end to end, setting standards other teams will build on
- Sound judgment about operational risk in a security-sensitive environment
- Clear written and verbal communication with both engineering and client stakeholders
- Self-directed, comfortable making architectural calls and documenting the reasoning
- 3+ years of Terraform experience in production environments
- 2+ years building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines
- Strong Azure expertise: Application Gateway, Container Apps, VNets, Azure Firewall, Key Vault
- Proficiency with Azure DevOps or GitHub Actions
- Experience with containerization (Docker) and microservices architectures
- Knowledge of GitOps principles and infrastructure testing frameworks
- Understanding of deployment patterns and automated testing strategies
- Applicants must be legally authorized to work in the United States on a permanent basis without requiring sponsorship, transfer, or extension of work authorization now or in the future
- Azure certifications (AZ-104, AZ-305, or AZ-400)
- AWS experience for multi-cloud strategies
- Multi-tenant SaaS architecture experience
- Graph database knowledge (ArangoDB a plus)
- Financial services or enterprise B2B platform experience
Benefits
- Long-term contract engagement on a W2, C2C or 1099 basis
- Remote work in the United States
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