DevOp Engineer - $60,000-$100,000/DOE - Missoula, Montana

ELM Utility Services; Missoula (MT); Remote; USD 110,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical/Dental/Vision/Life/Disability

FSA/HSA

PTO & 6 holidays

401(k) plan

Bonuses for anniversaries

Remote option

Company paid life insurance

Job summary

ELM Utility Services is seeking a DevOps Engineer in the Missoula, MT area. The role focuses on strengthening how we build, ship, and operate our Azure-based systems, with hands-on work in CI/CD, automation, and reliability.

The position offers remote options for the right candidate and emphasizes engineering enablement, security, and observability. Key responsibilities include designing and maintaining Azure DevOps pipelines, standardizing processes across teams, and driving performance

Qualifications

• 1–5+ years in DevOps, SRE, or platform engineering.
• Experience supporting production systems with on-call expectations.
• Cloud fundamentals and security best practices.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain Azure DevOps pipelines for applications and data services.
• Improve release reliability with versioning, automated checks, rollback strategies, and deployment validation.
• Own Datadog observability across services: dashboards, monitors, logs, APM/tracing.
• Implement secure CI/CD practices: secret management, least privilege, artifact integrity.
• Create self-service tooling and standards to speed up teams.

Skills

CI/CD

Azure DevOps

Datadog

Observability

SRE

Tools

Datadog

CI/CD tooling

Job description

ELM Utility Services, with a team of over 1300 employees nationwide, is offering a great opportunity for a a DevOps Engineer in the Missoula, Montana area. This position can be offered as a remote position to the right candidate pending interview. As a DevOps Engineer you job will be to strengthen how we build, ship, and operate our systems in Azure. This role is hands-on and focused on engineering enablement: CI/CD, infrastructure automation, observability, reliability, and secure operations. We use Azure and Azure DevOps (Repos, Pipelines, Boards, Artifacts, Wiki, etc.) plus Datadog as our primary monitoring/observability platform.

Total Rewards Package

• Optional benefits like Medical, Dental, Vision, Life, Disability, FSA, H.S.A., and Teledoc.
• Company Paid Life Insurance
• Paid-Time Off (PTO) for vacation and sick time
• Competitive pay based on experience
• Long history of stable employment and promoting from within
• Opportunity to lead and modernize production systems with meaningful operational impact
• 6 Paid Holidays
• 401(k) plan
• Bonuses for milestone anniversaries

Roles & Responsibilities

• CI/CD & Release Engineering (core)
• Design, build, and maintain Azure DevOps Pipelines for applications and data services (build/test/release)
• Standardize pipeline templates, approvals, environments, and promotion strategies across teams
• Improve release reliability: versioning, automated checks, rollback strategies, and deployment validation
• Support repo workflows in Azure DevOps (branch policies, PR checks, code quality gates)
• Improve platform consistency: reusable modules, baseline policies, and repeatable patterns
• Observability & Reliability (core)
• Own Datadog observability practices across services: dashboards, monitors, alert routing, SLOs, log/trace/metric strategy
• Improve troubleshooting and operational readiness: runbooks, incident response workflows, post-incident improvements
• Drive performance and reliability improvements in partnership with engineering (capacity signals, latency/error budgets)
• Security & Compliance Enablement (core-to-growing)
• Implement secure CI/CD practices: secret management, least privilege service principals, pipeline permissions, artifact integrity
• Support vulnerability management in the delivery pipeline (dependency scanning, code scanning, baseline hardening)
• Help enforce environment controls: approvals, change tracking, auditability, and access standards
• Developer Enablement (core)
• Create self-service tooling and standards that make teams faster (templates, docs, golden paths)
• Partner with engineers to improve build times, test stability, deployment confidence, and operational maturity
• Support internal platform documentation (Azure DevOps Wiki/runbooks) and knowledge sharing

Qualifications

• 1–5+ years in DevOps, SRE, platform engineering, or systems engineering with strong software delivery ownership
• Experience supporting production systems with on-call/incident response expectations (formal or informal)
• Technical Skills (strongly preferred)
• Cloud fundamentals (compute, networking, identity, logging/monitoring patterns, resource governance)
• Azure DevOps (Pipelines, Repos, Boards, Artifacts; environment approvals; service connections)
• Datadog (monitors, dashboards, logs, APM/tracing, alert routing, tagging strategy)
• CI/CD best practices: build/test automation, deployment strategies, environment promotion, rollback patterns
• Nice to have
• Container workflows (Docker, ACR, containerized deployments)
• Azure security tooling familiarity (Defender for Cloud concepts, key management, conditional access patterns)
• Database delivery patterns (migrations, DACPACs, schema change controls)
• Familiarity with GitHub Advanced Security or similar scanning tools (if applicable)

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