[Hiring] DevOps Administrator @Polaris Inc.

Role Description

As a DevOps Admin, you will support the day-to-day administration, reliability, and modernization of application development and production environments. Working across multiple product teams and business units, you will design and maintain CI/CD capabilities that move applications through development, staging, and production environments in Azure and AWS. The role combines product-team delivery with infrastructure operations, with approximately 70% of your time focused on product initiatives and 30% on platform stability, maintenance, upgrades, and patching. Serving as an infrastructure contact for assigned product teams, you’ll have meaningful ownership across a variety of platforms, modernization efforts, and mission-critical business systems.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, implement, maintain, and reuse CI/CD pipelines and templates that support application delivery across development, staging, and production environments.
• Partner with development, application, database, QA, operations, product, and business teams to design, implement, test, and support mission-critical business systems.
• Coordinate application and artifact releases across Azure and AWS cloud environments while supporting multiple product teams and business units.
• Develop and maintain automation scripts for application deployment, scaling, monitoring, and other operational processes to improve efficiency and reduce hosting costs.
• Administer and maintain on-premises and cloud-based application infrastructure, including web servers, SaaS, PaaS, and cloud services supporting the software development lifecycle.
• Maintain stable and resilient infrastructure by completing upgrades, patches, and other operational activities.
• Configure and manage monitoring and logging solutions to support the health, reliability, and performance of applications and infrastructure.
• Apply infrastructure modernization practices, including updated Azure policies, authentication approaches, infrastructure as code, and Terraform-based deployments.
• Implement security best practices and support compliance with applicable industry standards and regulations.
• Assess complex projects, prioritize competing requirements, develop accurate time estimates, complete work on schedule, and communicate changes and status updates to stakeholders.
• Evaluate evolving infrastructure and application-deployment technologies and apply relevant practices to supported environments.
• Provide remote support for global operations and participate in a rotating on-call schedule supporting a 24/7 global environment.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent experience.
• 4+ years of experience with CI/CD tools and practices, including technologies such as Azure DevOps, GitHub, and Terraform.
• 4+ years of experience with AWS and/or Microsoft Azure cloud platforms, with experience managing Azure services such as API Management, App Service, Function Apps, Service Bus, and Storage Accounts preferred.
• Experience applying infrastructure-as-code practices to provision and manage cloud infrastructure.
• Experience creating and maintaining deployment pipelines and coordinating application or artifact releases across cloud environments.
• Experience working with international teams, supporting multiple business units, and engaging stakeholders while maintaining focus on delivery.
• Knowledge of application server administration, including Microsoft Internet Information Services.
• Proficiency in scripting languages such as PowerShell is preferred.
• Strong problem-solving, analytical, written and verbal communication, and collaboration skills, with the ability to work independently.
• Ability to provide remote support for global operations and participate in a rotating on-call schedule supporting a 24/7 environment.
• Must reside in the US.

Benefits

• Competitive compensation, including a market-leading profit-sharing plan.
• Employee ownership through company contributions to the Employee Stock Ownership Plan and discounted employee stock purchases plan.
• Generous matching contribution to 401(k).
• Financial wellness education and consultation.
• Comprehensive suite of benefits, including health, dental, and vision insurance.
• Wellness programs, paid time off, gym & personal training reimbursement, life insurance, and disability offerings.
• Support for employees who actively volunteer through the Polaris Foundation and Polaris Gives paid volunteer time off.