Azure DevOps Lead: Cloud Infra, CI/CD & DR

Stand8 Technology Consulting; Jacksonville (FL); Hybrid; USD 130,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Stand8 Technology Consulting in Jacksonville, FL is seeking a hands-on DevOps and Azure Lead to own infrastructure-as-code, CI/CD, and disaster recovery across multiple environments. You will lead a two-person IT team, define architecture, and drive safe implementation and ongoing improvements.

Required: 5+ years in production infra with 3+ years on Azure, Terraform in multi-environment codebases, Ansible, Azure networking and identity, and strong mentoring skills.

Qualifications

• 5+ years running production infrastructure, with at least 3 years on Microsoft Azure.
• Terraform in a real multi-environment codebase: modules, remote state, plan review, and safe refactors with moved blocks.
• Ansible roles and playbooks for configuring Linux servers at scale.
• Azure networking: hub-and-spoke VNets, peering, NSGs, NAT gateway, private DNS and private endpoints, VPN.
• Azure identity: Entra ID, RBAC, managed identities, service principals, and group-based access.
• CI/CD pipelines (Azure Pipelines or GitLab CI) and an artifact repository such as Artifactory.
• Monitoring and alerting design, and calm, methodical incident response.
• At least 2 years leading or mentoring engineers, including setting priorities and giving feedback.
• Clear written runbooks and change records. Our procedures live as Markdown in Git.

Responsibilities

• Be the primary developer and maintainer of the Terraform and Ansible codebase that defines every environment.
• Design and write changes, review others' changes, and keep production changes safe once live.
• Run and improve CI/CD in Azure Pipelines and GitLab CI: application builds, Artifactory, and one-click deploys to dev, QA and stage.
• Support the application development team's pipelines: onboard new projects, write and fix build and deploy definitions, manage service connections and agents, and unblock failed builds quickly.
• Operate production and its disaster-recovery copy: Db2 HADR clusters, backups to the opposite region, and failover runbooks that get tested.
• Own monitoring and alerting with Azure Monitor and Icinga. Tune alerts so on-call pages mean something.
• Run monthly OS patching across the Ubuntu fleet, with Db2 primaries restarted in order inside a maintenance window.
• Keep network security tight: NSGs that deny by default, Application Gateway WAF, point-to-site VPN with Entra sign-in, and Key Vault.
• Manage cloud cost: right-size VMs, keep the pre-production start/stop schedule, and explain spend per environment.
• Keep the runbooks in docs/ current. When a step fails and the cause is found, write it down.

Skills

Azure

Terraform

Ansible

CI/CD

Monitoring

Leadership

Runbooks

Documentation

Tools

Azure Pipelines

GitLab CI

Artifactory

Job description

Stand8 Technology Consulting in Jacksonville, FL is seeking a hands-on DevOps and Azure Lead to own infrastructure-as-code, CI/CD, and disaster recovery across multiple environments. You will lead a two-person IT team, define architecture, and drive safe implementation and ongoing improvements.

Required: 5+ years in production infra with 3+ years on Azure, Terraform in multi-environment codebases, Ansible, Azure networking and identity, and strong mentoring skills.