DevOps Engineer, II

Encoura

A hands-on Azure DevOps Engineer at Encoura managing complex, cloud-native platforms for multiple enterprise products. Responsible for reliability, performance, and cloud cost optimization.

Posted 5/29/2026full-timeRemote • California • 🇺🇸 United StatesMid-LevelSenior💰 $116,000 - $128,800 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AzureCloudJenkinsSQL

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Own and maintain the reliability, performance, and availability of large-scale production systems — monitoring dashboards, reviewing alerts, and resolving incidents as they arise.
Serve as primary on-call and incident responder for customer-impacting issues, triaging, coordinating resolution, and leading post-mortems.
Design, build, and improve CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, and Octopus Deploy.
Automate Azure infrastructure and services (Web Apps, Functions, SQL, Storage, Key Vaults, Entra ID) using IaC tooling.
Collaborate closely with engineering, product, and security teams to support deployments, migrations, and compliance initiatives.
Drive cloud cost optimization, scalability, and auto-scaling initiatives across hosted environments.
Implement and modernize incident management tooling and enforce security best practices and system hardening standards.

Requirements

What you’ll need

BS in Computer Science, Software Engineering or equivalent, or a Bachelor's in an unrelated field with at least 7 years of professional experience.
4+ years of experience in DevOps, SRE, or Cloud Engineering with a strong hands-on background in Microsoft Azure production environments.
Proven experience designing and operating CI/CD pipelines (Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, Octopus Deploy).
Demonstrated ability to lead cloud migrations, infrastructure automation, and incident response at scale.
Experience with Azure services including Web Apps, Functions, SQL, Storage, Key Vaults, and Entra ID.
Ability to independently design and deliver complex technical solutions with minimal direction.
Strong understanding of security best practices, system hardening, and compliance standards.
Excellent collaboration skills — comfortable partnering with engineering, product, and security stakeholders.
Very strong scripting and automation skills – you believe we should automate just about everything.
Experience as a champion of Infrastructure as Code.

Benefits

Comp & perks

health insurance
retirement contributions
paid time off
other programs that support employee well‑being

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Hard Skills & Tools

CI/CD pipelinesInfrastructure as Codescriptingautomationcloud migrationsincident responsesystem hardeningcompliance standardsMicrosoft AzureDevOps

Soft Skills

collaborationleadershipproblem-solvingcommunicationindependencetechnical solution design

Certifications

BS in Computer ScienceSoftware Engineering degree