Senior DevOps Engineer (Azure)

RiseMe; St. Louis (MO); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

TOPS Products seeks a Senior DevOps Engineer (Azure) to own and evolve CI/CD pipelines, champion IaC and Azure platform reliability. You will collaborate with developers to streamline builds, tests, and deployments, while driving cost optimization and performance improvements.

You will lead incident reviews, shape runbooks, and ensure deployments are fast, safe, and scalable with measurable reliability improvements. This role is based in St. Louis with on-site requirements.

Qualifications

• 6+ years in DevOps, platform, or cloud infrastructure engineering.
• Deep hands-on Azure experience (compute, networking, identity, storage, security).
• Proven track record building and owning CI/CD pipelines (Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, or similar).

Responsibilities

• Own and evolve CI/CD pipelines for faster, safer releases.
• Promote Infrastructure as Code (Terraform/Bicep) and environment consistency.
• Collaborate with developers to remove build/test/deploy frictions.
• Provide visibility into build, release, and deployment metrics (e.g., DORA).
• Operate Azure environment across networking, identity, access control, and security.
• Lead reliability, performance, and scalability improvements including peak handling.

Skills

Azure

CI/CD

Terraform

GitHub Actions

Incident management

Tools

Azure DevOps

GitHub Actions

Job description

Senior DevOps Engineer (Azure)

About the Role

TOPS Products builds tax and compliance software that professionals depend on when deadlines don't move. Our platform has to be fast, secure, and available at exactly the moments it matters most.

What You'll Do

CI/CD & Release Engineering

• Own and evolve our CI/CD pipelines, making releases faster, safer, and more automated.

• Drive Infrastructure as Code adoption (Terraform/Bicep) and environment consistency from dev to production.

• Partner with developers to remove friction in builds, testing, and deployment.

• Stand up visibility into build, release, and deployment metrics (e.g., DORA).

Azure Platform & Infrastructure

• Operate our Azure environment across networking, identity, access control, and security.

• Lead reliability, performance, and scalability improvements, including readiness for seasonal peak demand.

• Drive cost optimization, right-sizing, and capacity planning.

Reliability & Operations

• Serve as the technical lead with our managed service provider (NOC/SOC) on monitoring, alerting, and incident response.

• Shape escalation paths and lead incident reviews, root-cause analysis, and preventive fixes.

• Document platform standards, configurations, and runbooks.

What Success Looks Like (First Year)

• Releases are routine and low-risk, with measurably fewer deployment and environment issues.

• Infrastructure is defined in code and reproducible.

• The platform handles peak periods without issue.

• Incidents are caught early, escalated cleanly, and don't repeat.

What You Bring

• 6+ years in DevOps, platform, or cloud infrastructure engineering.

• Deep hands-on Azure experience (compute, networking, identity, storage, security).

• A track record of building and owning CI/CD pipelines (Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, or similar).