Azure DevOps & DBA Leader — CI/CD, SRE, FinOps

Pierce; Colorado Springs (CO); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Pierce in Colorado Springs seeks a senior DevOps & DBA leader to mentor a high-performing team, define roadmaps, and align with platform goals.

You will own CI/CD automation, oversee SQL Server environments with HA/DR and backups, and partner with security to enforce SOC 2 controls while driving cost optimization and scalable IaC. This role requires 8+ years in DevOps/SRE with leadership experience; deep Azure expertise and strong incident response maturity.

Responsibilities

• Lead, hire, and mentor a high-performing DevOps & DBA team, defining strategic roadmaps aligned with platform goals.
• Own CI/CD pipelines (Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions) for end-to-end SaaS build, test, deployment, and rollback.
• Oversee SQL Server environments with HA/DR (Always On), tuning, capacity planning, patching, and RTO/RPO backups.
• Partner with Security to integrate automated scanning, secrets management, and SOC 2 compliance; drive incident response, post-mortems, and change management.
• Collaborate to optimize Azure spend and drive automation, observability, and self-service to reduce toil.
• 8+ years across DevOps, Cloud, SRE, and infra for PaaS/SaaS; 2+ years leading and hiring DevOps/SRE/DBA teams.
• Expertise in Azure IaaS/PaaS, Entra ID, networking, AKS, FinOps, and large-scale IaC.
• SQL Server DBA with HA/DR, tuning, backups; experience with migrations to Azure SQL MI, PostgreSQL, MySQL, and MongoDB.
• Experience building CI/CD pipelines (Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions), scripting (PowerShell, Python, Bash), and DevSecOps controls.
• Background in full-stack monitoring (Datadog, Dynatrace, App Insights), SOC 2/ISO compliance, and ITSM workflows (ServiceNow, Jira).

Job description

Pierce in Colorado Springs seeks a senior DevOps & DBA leader to mentor a high-performing team, define roadmaps, and align with platform goals.

You will own CI/CD automation, oversee SQL Server environments with HA/DR and backups, and partner with security to enforce SOC 2 controls while driving cost optimization and scalable IaC. This role requires 8+ years in DevOps/SRE with leadership experience; deep Azure expertise and strong incident response maturity.