Senior Azure DevOps Lead - Platform & SRE

Sphera; United States; Remote; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Sphera is seeking a senior DevOps leader to guide platform engineering across multiple SaaS environments. You will enforce DevOps architecture, provide mentorship to leads and senior engineers, and ensure reliability and scalable delivery in an Azure-first, Terraform-managed environment.

This is a hands-on leadership role with responsibility spanning architecture, security, and incident response. You will stay engaged in code, pipelines, and incidents while shaping strategy with product and

Qualifications

• 8+ years in DevOps, cloud infrastructure, or platform engineering, incl. 3+ years as a lead or mentor.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a similar field, or equivalent experience.
• Proven ownership of cloud architecture decisions at org-scale, not just project scale.
• Strong mentoring, communication, and ability to raise technical level across teams.

Responsibilities

• Represent DevOps in architecture and planning forums; surface risks early.
• Define and enforce DevOps architecture across the org; standards, tagging, environments.
• Provide technical guidance and mentorship to leads and senior engineers.
• Partner with engineering and product leadership; review designs and translate constraints into clear language for stakeholders.
• Drive consensus across teams; document reasoning when no consensus is reached.
• Own reliability outcomes for platform services; define SLOs, error budgets, KPIs.
• Own on-call health for DevOps; balance load and tune alerting with NOC.
• Lead platform engineering delivery: IaC in Terraform, CI/CD pipelines, and secure configurations.

Skills

DevOps leadership

Cloud architecture

Mentoring

Architecture review

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent

Tools

Terraform

Azure DevOps

Azure CLI

Databricks

Job description

Sphera is seeking a senior DevOps leader to guide platform engineering across multiple SaaS environments. You will enforce DevOps architecture, provide mentorship to leads and senior engineers, and ensure reliability and scalable delivery in an Azure-first, Terraform-managed environment.

This is a hands-on leadership role with responsibility spanning architecture, security, and incident response. You will stay engaged in code, pipelines, and incidents while shaping strategy with product and