[Hiring] DevOps Engineer @Independence Pet Group

Role Description

You will design and operate the application layer of our Azure platform, including:

• Multi-region deployment patterns across Azure regions for high availability and resilience
• Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) for core application workloads
• Azure Functions for event-driven and serverless components
• Azure Service Bus for asynchronous messaging and decoupled architectures
• Azure API Management (APIM) for secure and scalable API exposure
• Azure Front Door for global routing, performance optimization, and failover

You will ensure these services are deployed in a consistent, production-ready manner with clear standards that teams can follow.

You will build and evolve our application delivery model using Azure DevOps (ADO) and GitOps principles:

• Design advanced CI/CD pipelines with automated testing, security gates, and approval workflows
• Implement zero-downtime deployment strategies (Blue/Green, Canary, rolling)
• Standardize branching and release models to support parallel development and fast, safe releases
• Create reusable pipeline templates and deployment patterns that teams can adopt easily
• Drive consistent, repeatable deployment processes across services and environments

Your goal is to make deployments boring, predictable, and safe.

Define and maintain Infrastructure-as-Code using Terraform for Azure resources:

• Partner with the Infrastructure team to ensure networking, identity, and foundational services meet application platform needs
• Own application configuration strategy using Azure App Configuration and Key Vault
• Eliminate configuration drift across Dev, Test, Staging, and Production
• Ensure environment parity to reduce release risk

Design for regional failover and high availability at the application layer:

• Implement and tune monitoring using Azure Monitor and Application Insights
• Establish actionable alerting that reduces noise and improves signal
• Lead root cause analysis (RCA) for platform and deployment-related incidents
• Continuously improve resilience, performance, and recovery processes

Create self-service templates, documentation, and golden paths for teams:

• Coach teams on deployment patterns, observability, and cloud-native practices
• Act as a bridge between Software Engineering and Infrastructure teams
• Help teams design systems that are deployable, scalable, and cost-efficient

Build cost awareness into deployment patterns and architectural standards:

• Optimize AKS, serverless, and messaging usage for performance per dollar
• Partner with leadership to monitor and manage cloud spend
• Prevent waste through right-sizing, lifecycle policies, and automation

Benefits

• Comprehensive full medical, dental and vision Insurance
• Basic Life Insurance at no cost to the employee
• Company paid short-term and long-term disability
• 12 weeks of 100% paid Parental Leave
• Health Savings Account (HSA)
• Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA)
• Retirement savings plan
• Personal Paid Time Off
• Paid holidays and company-wide Wellness Day off
• Paid time off to volunteer at nonprofit organizations
• Pet friendly office environment
• Commuter Benefits
• Group Pet Insurance
• On the job training and skills development
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)