Azure DevOps Engineer

The Judge Group; Harrisburg (Dauphin County); On-site; USD 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

The Judge Group is seeking a DevOps Engineer to design, build, and maintain scalable CI/CD pipelines across development, staging, and production environments.

You will automate infrastructure with IaC, manage Azure cloud resources, and monitor performance, security, and reliability using industry tools.

Collaborate with software and operations teams to improve deployment speed, incident response, and observability while embracing DevSecOps practices.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of DevOps experience with cloud platforms.
• Hands-on with Azure DevOps and Azure cloud services.
• Proficient in containerization and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes).
• Experience with CI/CD tools: Azure Pipelines, GitHub Actions or GitLab CI.
• Familiar with monitoring/logging: Grafana, ELK, Azure Monitor.
• Strong networking, security and sysadmin fundamentals.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and maintain CI/CD pipelines for deployments.
• Automate infrastructure provisioning using IaC tools.
• Manage and optimize Azure cloud infrastructure for high availability.
• Leverage Azure DevOps for version control, pipelines, and tracking.
• Monitor performance and address issues across environments.
• Collaborate to improve deployment strategies, observability, and incident response.
• Track and improve DORA metrics: deployment frequency, lead time, change failure rate, MTTR.
• Contribute to security best practices across infra and workflows.

Skills

CI/CD

Automation

Observability

Security fundamentals

Networking fundamentals

System administration

Incident response

Collaboration

Tools

Azure DevOps

Azure

Docker

Kubernetes

Azure Pipelines

GitHub Actions

GitLab CI

Grafana

ELK

Azure Monitor

Job description

• Design, implement, and maintain CI/CD pipelines to support fast, safe, and repeatable deployments.
• Automate infrastructure provisioning using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools such as Terraform or ARM templates.
• Manage and optimize cloud infrastructure on Microsoft Azure, ensuring high availability, performance, and security.
• Leverage Azure DevOps for version control, build/release pipelines, and project tracking.
• Monitor system performance and proactively address issues across development, staging, and production environments.
• Collaborate with engineering teams to improve deployment strategies, observability, and incident response.
• Track and improve DORA metrics: Deployment Frequency, Lead Time for Changes, Change Failure Rate, and Mean Time to Recovery.
• Contribute to the implementation of security best practices across infrastructure and deployment workflows.

QUALIFICATIONS:

• 3+ years of experience in a DevOps Engineering, or related role.
• Strong hands-on experience with Azure DevOps and Azure cloud services.
• Proficiency with containerization and orchestration tools (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes).
• Experience with CI/CD tools such as Azure Pipelines, GitHub Actions or GitLab CI.
• Familiarity with monitoring and logging tools (e.g., Grafana, ELK, Azure Monitor).
• Strong understanding of networking, security, and system administration fundamentals.

Preferred:

• Experience with serverless architectures and microservices.
• Microsoft Azure certifications (e.g., AZ-400, AZ-104).
• Familiarity with Agile, DevSecOps, and ITIL practices.