Senior DevOps Engineer – CI/CD & AKS on Azure (Dallas)

Intent Talent Solutions; Texas; On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Intent Talent Solutions is seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer who will own build and release management for .NET services running on AKS in Azure. This hands-on role emphasizes trunk-based development, fast feedback, and end-to-end pipeline ownership from commit to production.

You will consolidate and optimize Azure DevOps and GitHub Actions workflows, implement progressive delivery patterns, manage infrastructure as code, ensure security gates, and partner with development teams to ship reliable,

Qualifications

• Candidates must be local to the Dallas–Fort Worth area.
• 5+ years in DevOps, platform, or release engineering, with significant time owning build and release systems.
• Deep, practical experience with Azure DevOps Pipelines and GitHub Actions — YAML pipelines, templates, reusable workflows, self‑hosted runners/agents, environments, and approval gates
• Strong Azure experience: AKS, Container Registry, Key Vault, Entra ID / managed identity, networking fundamentals, and resource governance
• Production Kubernetes experience — deployments, services, ingress, autoscaling, resource tuning, and real‑world troubleshooting under pressure
• Infrastructure as code proficiency with Bicep, ARM, or Terraform, plus Helm for Kubernetes packaging
• Scripting and automation in PowerShell, Bash, and/or Python; comfortable writing tooling, not just configuring it
• Working knowledge of supply chain security practices and secure secrets handling in CI/CD
• Clear written and verbal communication — you document decisions and can explain tradeoffs to engineers and leadership alike

Responsibilities

• Own the design, implementation, and continuous improvement of CI/CD pipelines in Azure DevOps and GitHub Actions for .NET applications and services
• Drive trunk‑based development practices: short‑lived branches, fast and reliable PR validation, feature flags, and continuous integration into main
• Build and maintain progressive delivery patterns — blue/green, canary, and ring‑based rollouts into AKS — with automated rollback on failed health gates
• Define and enforce release standards: versioning and tagging strategy, artifact promotion across environments, release notes automation, and change tracking
• Reduce build times and flaky test noise; treat pipeline reliability and developer feedback loops as first‑class products with measurable SLOs
• Manage container build and image lifecycle (Docker, Azure Container Registry) including base image hygiene, caching strategy, and multi‑stage build optimization
• Author and maintain infrastructure as code — Bicep and/or Terraform, Helm charts, and Kustomize overlays — so that environments are reproducible and drift is visible
• Embed security into the delivery pipeline: SAST/DAST, dependency and container scanning, SBOM generation, artifact signing and provenance, and policy‑as‑code gates
• Manage secrets and identity properly — Azure Key Vault, workload identity, OIDC federation for pipeline auth, and elimination of long‑lived credentials
• Build observability into releases: deployment health signals, DORA metrics (lead time, deployment frequency, change failure rate, MTTR), and dashboards/alerting via Azure Monitor, Application Insights, Prometheus, or Grafana
• Partner directly with development teams — unblock them, review their pipeline changes, and raise the bar on delivery practices through coaching rather than gatekeeping
• Participate in on‑call rotation and incident response for platform and delivery systems; lead blameless postmortems and drive the follow‑through

Skills

5+ years experience

Azure DevOps Pipelines

GitHub Actions

Kubernetes (AKS)

Infrastructure as Code (Bicep/ARM/Ter2

Terraform

Helm

Scripting (PowerShell/Bash/Python)

Security in CI/CD

Observability/Monitoring

Communication

Tools

Azure DevOps Pipelines

GitHub Actions

AKS

Azure Container Registry

Helm

Terraform

Bicep

ARM

Job description

Intent Talent Solutions is seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer who will own build and release management for .NET services running on AKS in Azure. This hands-on role emphasizes trunk-based development, fast feedback, and end-to-end pipeline ownership from commit to production.

You will consolidate and optimize Azure DevOps and GitHub Actions workflows, implement progressive delivery patterns, manage infrastructure as code, ensure security gates, and partner with development teams to ship reliable,