Semperis

DevOps Team Lead

Semperis

full-time

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Origin:  • 🇺🇸 United States

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Job Level

Senior

Tech Stack

AzureCloudCyber SecurityDistributed SystemsElasticSearchFirewallsGoGrafanaKafkaKubernetesMicroservicesPrometheusPythonTerraformVault

About the role

  • Lead the design, implementation, and continuous improvement of build and release pipelines
  • Provide day-to-day guidance and direct support to a team of three global DevOps engineers
  • Conduct 1:1s, deliver performance reviews, and promote professional development across the team
  • Architect and execute cloud deployment strategies for optimized performance and cost efficiency
  • Review code, infrastructure configurations, and documentation to uphold best practices
  • Train and mentor developers and stakeholders in Azure DevOps and Git workflows
  • Advocate for DevOps culture and best practices across engineering and IT teams
  • Collaborate with Infrastructure engineers to diagnose and resolve deployment challenges
  • Document and communicate procedures with clarity and consistency
  • Troubleshoot issues during deployment and provide production support in staging and live environments
  • Represent the team in cross-functional meetings with insightful recommendations
  • Research and evaluate emerging technologies for possible adoption
  • Infrastructure & Cloud Operations
  • Design and manage Azure infrastructure using IaC principles with Terraform and Terragrunt
  • Maintain AKS clusters with Istio for secure, scalable service-to-service communication
  • Manage Azure resources such as networking, Key Vault, Blob Storage, and CosmosDB
  • Configure OpenSearch clusters for efficient logging and data indexing
  • Optimize CosmosDB performance with scaling strategies and cost oversight
  • DevOps Practices & Automation
  • Lead the development of robust CI/CD pipelines.
  • Establish and maintain GitOps workflows via ArgoCD
  • Author and maintain automation scripts (primarily Bash) to streamline operations
  • Continuously evaluate and enhance deployment and developer processes
  • Security & Compliance
  • Implement Zero Trust security architecture using Azure PIM and RBAC
  • Define and enforce least privilege access models and security best practices
  • Configure Web Application Firewalls (WAFs) and manage network security in Azure
  • Ensure alignment with compliance frameworks and standards
  • Monitoring & Reliability
  • Deploy observability tooling using OpenTelemetry, Azure Monitor, and Application Insights
  • Participate in on-call rotation and incident response protocols
  • Lead post-incident analysis and drive implementation of long-term fixes
  • Define and maintain reliability objectives, SLAs, and error budgets

Requirements

  • 5+ years of DevOps/SRE experience in SaaS or cloud-native environments
  • 2+ years in a formal engineering leadership role, including people management and performance reviews
  • Proven expertise with Microsoft Azure infrastructure and services
  • Strong hands-on experience with:
  • Terraform and Terragrunt
  • Kubernetes (AKS) and Helm
  • Istio Service Mesh and Istio Ingress Gateways
  • ArgoCD and GitOps workflows
  • CI/CD pipelines via Azure DevOps
  • Zero Trust architecture, including PIM and RBAC
  • Observability tools: OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Grafana, Azure Monitor
  • Bash scripting; Python or Go for automation/tooling
  • Comfortable supporting production systems in on-call rotation
  • Strong communication, leadership, and troubleshooting abilities
  • Experience with WAFs and secure network configurations in Azure