Cloud-Native DevOps Engineer — CI/CD, Azure

Sonoran Desert Institute; Tempe (AZ); On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

ESOP

Medical benefit (100% company-paid)

401(k) with match

Paid Time Off

14+ Holidays

Tuition Education Benefit

Career development

Life insurance

Pet Insurance

Referral program

Job summary

Sonoran Desert Institute seeks an experienced DevOps Engineer to design, automate, and optimize cloud-native systems powering reliable software delivery. The role focuses on building robust CI/CD pipelines, scalable container orchestration, and proactive observability to support rapid iteration with strong security and cost controls.

You will collaborate with Systems Analysts, SMEs and business units to maintain enterprise-grade reliability while enabling developers with self-service

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, IT or equivalent.
• Four+ years of hands-on DevOps/infrastructure experience.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and maintain end-to-end CI/CD pipelines with zero-downtime deployment.
• Implement container orchestration and microservices deployment.
• Establish monitoring, logging, alerting, and observability solutions for proactive incident handling.
• Automate repetitive tasks to reduce toil and improve reliability.
• Optimize cloud resources and contribute to capacity planning and performance tuning.
• Collaborate across teams to define platform standards and self-service capabilities.
• Stay current with DevOps/cloud/observability trends and advocate adoption.

Skills

CI/CD pipelines

Cloud platforms (Azure)

Python

Go

Bash

Git

DevSecOps

Observability

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/engineering

Tools

GitHub Actions

GitLab CI/CD

Jenkins

Azure DevOps

Terraform

Job description

Sonoran Desert Institute seeks an experienced DevOps Engineer to design, automate, and optimize cloud-native systems powering reliable software delivery. The role focuses on building robust CI/CD pipelines, scalable container orchestration, and proactive observability to support rapid iteration with strong security and cost controls.

You will collaborate with Systems Analysts, SMEs and business units to maintain enterprise-grade reliability while enabling developers with self-service