Senior DevOps Engineer — Azure, Kubernetes & Reliability

WME Group; California (MO); On-site; USD 131,250 - 175,000; Full time

Job summary

WME is building the next generation of internal platforms that power one of the world's leading entertainment companies. We are seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer who is equally comfortable designing cloud infrastructure and improving system reliability.

You’ll own the infrastructure end-to-end: provisioning cloud resources, maintaining Kubernetes deployments, refining CI/CD pipelines, and building observability to keep engineers shipping fast.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of DevOps or platform engineering experience.
• Strong hands-on Azure experience (AKS, Azure AD, managed databases).
• Terraform at scale — writing and organizing infrastructure as code.
• Kubernetes and Helm experience managing production workloads.
• Experience building and operating CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions / Azure DevOps).
• PostgreSQL operations — backups, replication, failover, performance.
• Observability tooling experience (Datadog / Grafana / OpenTelemetry).
• Incident response experience and driving reliability improvements.

Responsibilities

• Own and evolve Azure infrastructure using Terraform — networking, compute, managed services, secrets.
• Manage Kubernetes clusters and Helm-based deployments for a distributed microservices platform.
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions / Azure DevOps) for fast, safe deployments.
• Define and improve observability: metrics, logging, alerting, tracing across services.
• Lead incident response — drive resolution, write postmortems, and implement reliability improvements.
• Manage PostgreSQL infrastructure: backups, replication, failover, and query performance.
• Collaborate with engineers to improve local development environments and deployment workflows.
• Enforce security best practices: secrets management, network policies, access controls, vulnerability scanning.

Skills

Cloud architecture

Kubernetes

CI/CD

PostgreSQL

Observability

Incident response

Docker

Security best practices

Tools

Azure AKS

Terraform

Helm

GitHub Actions

Azure DevOps

Datadog

Grafana

OpenTelemetry

Azure Key Vault

Job description

WME is building the next generation of internal platforms that power one of the world's leading entertainment companies. We are seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer who is equally comfortable designing cloud infrastructure and improving system reliability.

You’ll own the infrastructure end-to-end: provisioning cloud resources, maintaining Kubernetes deployments, refining CI/CD pipelines, and building observability to keep engineers shipping fast.