Principal Azure DevOps Engineer (remote)

About the Role

If you're passionate abouthigh-availability, reliability, scalable infrastructure, security, and automation, let's talk!

We're looking for aPrincipal Azure DevOps Engineerwith deep experience deploying complex systems to the cloud. You'll be a key member of a talented cross-functional team ofarchitects, product managers, software, hardware, and QA engineers, working together to power the next-generationaccess control and video surveillance solutionsin the cloud. This role is pivotal in driving the deployment, automation, and reliability of our Azure-based SaaS platform, engineered for99.99% uptime. We valueself-starterswho thrive in fast-paced environments, love solving hard problems, and are motivated by continuous improvement and innovation.

In this role, you'll use the latestcutting-edge technologiesto build and support highly available, secure, and scalable platforms and services. You'll drive cloud automation, infrastructure-as-code, and CI/CD best practices, while solving unique challenges using open-source and cloud-native tools. This is a remote opportunity for individuals that reside in the US.

What You'll Do

• Architect and automate infrastructure usingTerraform, ARM, Helm, Ansible, CloudFormation, Vagrant

• Build and maintainCI/CD pipelinesusing tools likeGitHub Actions

• Deploy and manage services onAzure Kubernetes Service (AKS)and other Azure resources:
  VNets, VMs, ACR, Azure Container Apps, Blob Storage, Azure SQL, Cosmos DB, Event Grid

• ImplementGitOpsworkflows and manage Git repositories (GitHub, Azure DevOps)

• Support bothLinuxandWindowsenvironments usingBashandPowerShell

• Enforcecybersecurity best practicesand ensure compliance

• Collaborate with architects and product owners to define deployment strategies

• Document architecture, runbooks, deployment instructions, and findings from POC's & evaluations inConfluence

• Promote DevOps principles: infrastructure-as-code, automation, continuous improvement, and high collaboration

What We're Looking For

Required

• 8+ yearsin software/DevOps roles

• 5+ yearsAzure experience with core services

• 5+ yearsautomating builds/deployments of complex systems

• 4+ yearswith IaC tools (Terraform, ARM, Helm, etc.)

• 4+ yearsmanaging Git repositories and workflows

• 4+ yearsdeploying to Kubernetes clusters

• 4+ yearsmanaging Linux systems;2+ yearswith Windows systems

• Experience with GitOps tools likeArgoCD

• Strong scripting skills:Bash, PowerShell, Python, JavaScript

• Deep understanding of containerization:Docker, Kubernetes, Helm

• Solid grasp of networking:CIDR, subnets, NSG, VPNs, DNS, TCP/UDP, TLS, PKI, firewalls, proxies, API gateways, NAT, IPv6

• Experience working withMicrosoft Fabricfor data integration and analytics

• Experience using Git with various workflow and branching strategies

Preferred

• Experience withKubernetes Operators

• Proficiency with tools likekubectl, K9s, oc, helm, kustomize, ArgoCD

• Familiarity with registries:Artifactory, Azure Artifacts, GitHub Packages, ACR, Harbor, Docker Hub, Nexus, ECR

• Experience with observability platforms:Elastic Stack, Prometheus, OpenTelemetry

• Certifications inKubernetes, networking, security, or cloud platforms (Azure, AWS)

• Video Streaming Experience (Preferred) - Familiarity withWebRTC,HLS, RTMP, RTSP,CDN integration, andmedia encoding workflows

• IoT Protocols & Messaging (Preferred) - Experience withMQTT, AMQP, and brokers like HiveMQ,RabbitMQ