Sr DevOps Engineer Azure (Remoto | PJ)

100% Remote
USA EST Timezone
Contractor / PJ Position
Availability for Regular Saturday Coverage (Minimum 2 Saturdays per Month, 1 PM – 9 PM BRT)
Role Overview
The goal is to shape the reliability and scalability of mission-critical platforms on Azure, Kubernetes, and modern DevOps toolchains. You will solve complex infrastructure challenges, automate end-to-end operations, and ensure systems operate with high availability, performance, and security.
What You Will Do
Design, build, and improve CI/CD pipelines for applications and infrastructure
Develop automation frameworks that reduce manual effort and increase consistency.
Configure and optimize cloud infrastructure to align with security, scalability, and performance best practices.
Collaborate with development teams to remove deployment blockers and improve delivery workflows.
Monitor reliability and performance, identify issues early, and implement data-driven improvements to increase uptime and efficiency.
Participate in on-call rotations and drive incident resolution with clear postmortems and preventive actions.
Maintain technical documentation for pipelines, configurations, and runbooks.
Perform readiness assessments and validation tests before production rollouts.
Implement Infrastructure as Code using Terraform and ARM templates with version control and reproducibility.
Troubleshoot complex deployment, provisioning, and performance issues across multi-cloud and containerized environments.
Minimum Qualifications
Proven track record in SRE or DevOps roles operating production systems
Hands-on experience running production workloads on Kubernetes in a cloud environment, including cluster design, autoscaling, upgrades, and network policies.
Proven CI/CD delivery using GitHub Actions or Jenkins, including promotion across environments, approvals, and rollback strategies.
Infrastructure as Code expertise with Terraform and ARM templates, including modules, remote state, workspaces, and policy enforcement.
Strong scripting in PowerShell, Bash, or Python for automation and diagnostics.
GitOps experience with Argo CD or Flux, managing multi-environment application delivery and drift remediation.
Containerization with Docker and Kubernetes, including health probes, PodDisruptionBudgets, resource quotas, HorizontalPodAutoscaler, and operators.
Networking fundamentals with cloud network security practices such as VNet design, NSGs, Private Link, and ingress controllers.
Working knowledge of cloud security and compliance, including least privilege, secrets management, audit trails, and control evidence.
Excellent written and spoken English.
Ability to collaborate across US time zone.
Preferred Qualifications
Microsoft Azure certification, such as Developer Associate, Administrator, or DevOps Engineer Expert
Observability using Application Insights, Elastic Stack (ELK), Grafana, and Prometheus for metrics, logs, and traces.
Experience with log aggregation and alerting at scale using Elastic and Prometheus.
Understanding of high availability, scalability, disaster recovery, and cost optimization strategies.
Experience managing Windows-based containerized applications.
Plus
Experience in Google Cloud Platform (GCP) or AWS

Work arrangement
Yes