DevOps Architect – Azure, IaC

Emergent Software

DevOps Architect leading the technical direction of our DevOps practice. Joining the cloud infrastructure team at Emergent Software to mentor engineers and guide client architecture discussions.

Posted 5/28/2026full-timeRemote • 🇺🇸 United StatesSeniorLead💰 $160,000 - $190,000 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AzureCloudTerraform

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Own the technical direction of Emergent’s DevOps practice, including the IaC standards, pipeline patterns, code review expectations, and reference architectures that the team applies across client engagements.
Author and maintain the internal documentation, templates, and modules that the team relies on day to day. This is a core part of the role, not a side task.
Mentor a team of engineers from mixed backgrounds, including software developers growing into cloud roles and traditional cloud engineers building DevOps fluency. Pair, review pull requests, run office hours, and raise the technical bar across the group.
Lead the most complex DevOps engagements end to end, from discovery through delivery, with a focus on environments where scale, regulatory requirements, or legacy constraints demand strong technical judgment. This includes grooming backlog work and feature & task assignments to project team as well as influence technical direction across practice areas.
Represent the DevOps practice in pre-sales. Partner with sales and account teams to scope work, lead technical discovery sessions, contribute to proposals, and build client confidence in Emergent’s approach.
Continuously evolve Emergent’s DevOps practice by evaluating new tools, patterns, and approaches, and bringing the right ones into the team’s standard playbook.
Diagnose and improve existing client systems that may be partially implemented or inconsistently managed, balancing pragmatic delivery with long-term maintainability.
Accurately track time and work performed to support client billing, project planning, and overall project health, as part of a professional services delivery model.
Strong time management skills to be able to prioritize workload, meet deadlines, and provide technical support and guidance for other DevOps focused team members.
Share your knowledge at regular talk shop and lunch & learn sessions to help build a stronger team.

Requirements

What you’ll need

8+ years of hands-on experience with cloud infrastructure, with deep expertise in Microsoft Azure across compute, storage, and governance
Deep networking expertise in Azure, including designing topologies from the ground up (segmentation strategy, hub-and-spoke or virtual WAN, cross-region connectivity, on-premises integration), as well as working fluently with virtual networks, ExpressRoute, VPN Gateways, and private endpoints.
Comfortable diagnosing connectivity issues across hybrid environments.
Strong identity and security fundamentals, including Entra ID, RBAC, managed identities, and secure access patterns
Advanced experience authoring production Infrastructure as Code, including modular Terraform or Bicep with strong opinions on idempotency, reuse, environment parity, and safe change management
Proven track record designing and operating CI/CD pipelines at scale using Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, or comparable tooling
Experience designing disaster recovery and high availability strategies in Azure, including defining RTO and RPO targets, multi-region patterns, and failover testing
Experience designing for cost efficiency at scale, including tagging strategies, reservation and savings plan planning, and ongoing FinOps practices
Demonstrated experience writing and maintaining technical standards and internal documentation that other engineers actively use. Be prepared to share examples.
Experience mentoring engineers, including those transitioning into cloud or DevOps from adjacent backgrounds
Comfortable leading client-facing technical conversations, including pre-sales discovery and architecture reviews
Previous consulting or professional services experience

Benefits

Comp & perks

Medical Insurance: up to 84% of your monthly medical premium (HSA options available)
HSA Contribution: up to $200/month
Dental & Vision Insurance: up to 50% of your monthly dental and vision premium costs
401(k) plan: company match up to 4% of salary
Profit sharing bonus: up to 15% of salary paid quarterly
Extra compensation: get paid extra for work over 40 hours/week
Employee referral & customer referral bonuses
Flex Spending Account (FSA) for Dependent Care & Healthcare Costs
Short Term Disability: $500/week for 12 weeks
Long Term Disability: up to $6,000/month
Group term life and AD&D insurance: $50k
PTO, standard holidays, 2 floating holidays
Paid parental leave
Staff development program: 100 hours/year plus training costs

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Hard Skills & Tools

Microsoft AzureInfrastructure as CodeTerraformBicepCI/CD pipelinesAzure DevOpsGitHub Actionsdisaster recoveryhigh availabilityFinOps

Soft Skills

time managementmentoringtechnical judgmentcommunicationleadershipdocumentationteam buildingclient-facing conversationsprioritizationproblem-solving