DevOps & Release Engineer — Azure CI/CD Expert

Blue Lake Search, LLC.; Grand Rapids (MI); On-site; USD 110,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Blue Lake Search, LLC. is seeking an experienced DevOps professional to own release engineering across multiple teams in Grand Rapids. You will plan, coordinate, and execute cross-team deployments while building automated paths for Azure PaaS apps.

You will migrate pipelines from Azure DevOps to GitHub Actions, implement scalable CI/CD patterns, and develop scripts to remove toil. Collaboration across stacks is essential for on-time, reliable releases.

Qualifications

• 2 to 4 years in DevOps, release or cloud engineering roles.
• Engineering mindset; automate and build, not operate.
• Azure PaaS expertise: function apps, App Service, networking, Key Vault.
• Deep GitHub Actions experience and Azure DevOps Pipelines.
• Release engineering coordinating deployments across teams with shared dependencies.
• Experience running .NET, Java, Node.js, TypeScript deployments in production.
• Strong scripting skills: PowerShell, Python, Bash.
• Proficiency with C#/.NET, Java, Node.js, TypeScript stacks.
• Willingness to support night releases 2–3 nights per week.
• Excellent collaboration and troubleshooting across teams.

Responsibilities

• Own release engineering across multiple teams; plan, coordinate and execute cross-team deployments.
• Build and improve automated deployment paths for Azure PaaS apps and related networking and secrets.
• Migrate pipelines from Azure DevOps to GitHub Actions and create reusable templates.
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines in GitHub Actions for scalable deployment patterns.
• Troubleshoot build and deployment issues across development teams.
• Develop scripts and tooling (PowerShell, Python, Bash) to replace manual steps.
• Create templates and automation for developer self-service for repos, pipelines, containers.
• Enable agile teams to run their own delivery; unblock them and hand capability back.
• Support releases up to 2–3 nights per week.
• Contribute to docs and guardrails to improve efficiency, security, reliability.

Skills

GitHub Actions

Azure

PowerShell

Python

Bash

C#/.NET

Java

Node.js

TypeScript

CI/CD principles

Tools

Azure DevOps Pipelines

Kubernetes

Terraform

Argo CD

Job description

Blue Lake Search, LLC. is seeking an experienced DevOps professional to own release engineering across multiple teams in Grand Rapids. You will plan, coordinate, and execute cross-team deployments while building automated paths for Azure PaaS apps.

You will migrate pipelines from Azure DevOps to GitHub Actions, implement scalable CI/CD patterns, and develop scripts to remove toil. Collaboration across stacks is essential for on-time, reliable releases.