Remote Azure DevOps Cloud Engineer — CI/CD & Security

SmartRecruiters, Inc.

Mechanicsville (VA)

Remote

USD 120,000 - 150,000

Full time

3 days ago

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Job summary

Derex Technologies Inc is seeking a DevOps and Cloud Engineer to modernize tolling IT environments. The remote role focuses on designing and maintaining secure CI/CD pipelines, automation, and governance across Azure. You will monitor deployments, optimize costs, and collaborate with architects and engineers to ensure highly available services.

The position emphasizes Azure DevOps pipelines, IaC, monitoring, and secure identity management in a regulated government-adjacent context.

Qualifications

Hands-on experience with Azure DevOps CI/CD (YAML & Classic).
Secure secrets & key management (Azure Key Vault, RBAC, managed identities).
SQL deployment automation integrated with CI/CD.
Logging & observability (App Insights, pipeline logs, dashboards, alerts).
Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Bicep, or ARM templates).
Scripting & automation (PowerShell and/or Python).
Experience with Azure administration/engineering in production environments.
Experience designing CI/CD standards or DevOps frameworks for microservices.
Containerization with Docker and AKS.
PCI or similar compliance frameworks.
Cloud cost analysis and optimization.

Responsibilities

Design, build, and maintain CI/CD pipelines in Azure DevOps (YAML and Classic) for microservices and APIs.
Establish reusable pipeline templates, release standards, and guardrails for compliant, repeatable deployments.
Implement secure secrets and key management using Azure Key Vault and managed identities in pipelines.
Automate database deployment workflows (e.g., DACPAC/SQLCMD) and integrate migration steps into releases.
Enable blue/green or automated rollback strategies to minimize downtime and risk.
Standardize provisioning and configuration across Dev/QA/Prod environments; codify configuration baselines.
Build monitoring dashboards and actionable alerts for pipeline and deployment health (App Insights, pipeline logs).
Uphold DevOps best practices tailored to a compliant government environment.
Implement and maintain Azure services and governance standards (e.g., App Services, Function Apps, API Gateways/API Management, AKS) supporting Tolling workloads.
Support identity and access management (e.g., Entra ID SSO and role assignments) following least-privilege principles.
Ensure solutions are fault tolerant and highly available; coordinate change requests and rollback procedures.
Monitor Azure services and application workloads; diagnose with Azure Monitor and Log Analytics.
Triage production incidents; document root cause; participate in operational cycles and maintenance readiness checks.
Consider PCI or regulatory requirements when evaluating system behavior, logging, integrations.
Understand end-to-end data flows across tolling systems and support integrations.
Contribute to cloud cost visibility and optimization.
Partner with architects, developers, DBAs, and engineers to align deployments with secure networks.