DevOps Engineer

TempWorks Software Incorporated; San Jose (CA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

TempWorks Software Incorporated in the United States is seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer to own and evolve our Azure-based SaaS platform, driving CI/CD, SRE, and FedRAMP compliance initiatives in a fast-paced, collaborative environment.

You will work with AKS, Functions, Service Bus, Terraform, Helm, GitHub Actions, and Azure DevOps to design secure, scalable pipelines, maintain observability, and support on-call rotations during North American business hours.

Qualifications

• 7+ years in DevOps, SRE, or Platform roles.
• 3+ years with Azure services (AKS, Functions, Service Bus, Monitor, Key Vault).
• Experience designing CI/CD pipelines for microservices/serverless.
• Hands-on Kubernetes and Helm.
• Security/compliance awareness (FedRAMP/SOC2) is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, secure, and scale our Azure-based SaaS platform.
• Lead CI/CD pipelines, automation, and release workflows.
• Advance SRE practices: observability, incidents, reliability.
• Support FedRAMP readiness and compliance.
• Provide Tier 2/3 ops support and on-call rotations.

Skills

DevOps practices

Site Reliability Engineering

Cloud-native architectures

Automation scripting

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Terraform

Helm

GitHub Actions

Azure DevOps

Kubernetes (AKS)

Confluence/Jira

Job description

Senior DevOps Engineer - Azure SaaS Platform (FedRAMP, CI/CD, SRE)

As a Senior DevOps Engineer, you will play a critical role in scaling and securing our Azure-based SaaS platform. You will be responsible for owning and evolving our CI/CD infrastructure, driving SRE best practices, and contributing to our FedRAMP compliance initiatives. This is a senior-level position for someone who thrives in a fast-paced, highly collaborative environment, and is deeply familiar with modern DevOps in the Azure cloud ecosystem.

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In this role, you will

• Collaborate with engineering teams to design, build, secure, and scale our SaaS platform on Azure using services like AKS (Azure Kubernetes Service), Azure Functions, Azure Service Bus, and related services.
• Lead the development and optimization of CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure automation, and release engineering workflows using tools like Terraform, Helm, GitHub Actions, and Azure DevOps.
• Drive SRE principles across the organization, focusing on observability, incident response, availability, performance monitoring, and operational excellence.
• Contribute directly to our FedRAMP compliance readiness efforts, including secure configuration management, audit logging, documentation, and operational procedures.
• Provide Tier 2/3 operational support, including support during maintenance windows and participation in an on-call rotation during North American business hours.
• Support ongoing capacity planning, cost optimization, and scaling efforts for key infrastructure services.
• Maintain and improve production monitoring, alerting, and runbooks to ensure high reliability and rapid incident response.
• Participate in security, availability, and disaster recovery planning.
• Document operational processes, architectural decisions, and runbooks in a structured, trackable system (e.g., Jira, Confluence).

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We're looking for someone who has

• 7+ years of experience in DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering, or Platform Engineering roles.
• 3+ years of experience with Azure Cloud and its native services (especially AKS, Azure Functions, Azure Service Bus, Azure Monitor, Key Vault, etc.).
• Proven experience designing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines for microservices architectures and serverless environments.
• Hands-on experience with Kubernetes, Helm charts, and managing cloud-native workloads.
• Expertise in infrastructure-as-code using tools like Terraform.
• Strong scripting and automation skills (e.g., Bash, Python).
• Deep experience with monitoring, observability, incident response, and alerting using tools like Prometheus, Grafana, Azure Monitor, etc.
• Familiarity with FedRAMP, SOC 2, or other security/compliance frameworks (working experience on a FedRAMP-authorized environment is a strong plus).
• Excellent communication skills and ability to work cross-functionally with engineering, security, and compliance teams.
• Proven ability to work effectively in remote teams across time zones.

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Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with GitHub Actions/Workflows, and GitLab CI.
• Experience with distributed databases such as PostgreSQL, Elasticsearch, Redis.
• Exposure to security practices in SaaS environments (encryption, secret management, network hardening).
• Familiarity with change management processes.
• Relevant Azure certifications.
• Prior experience contributing to or leading FedRAMP or other regulated compliance initiatives.

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Education

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field, or equivalent practical experience.