Sr. Engineer, Development Operations

Sr. Engineer, Development Operations

The Sr. Engineer, Development Operations serves as a technical leader responsible for architecting, governing, and advancing the organization's cloud platform, Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC), CI/CD, Dev Sec Ops , automation, Data Ops, MLOps, and enterprise integration capabilities. This role provides strategic technical leadership for Azure-based application, infrastructure, data, analytics, machine learning, and integration platforms. The Sr. Engineer establishes engineering standards, platform architectures, automation frameworks, governance controls, and operational best practices that enable secure, scalable, highly available, and cost-effective technology solutions across the enterprise.

The Sr. Engineer, Development Operations partners closely with software engineering, data engineering, analytics, security, infrastructure, architecture, and business stakeholders to deliver enterprise-scale automation, interoperability, observability, resiliency, and platform maturity while accelerating software delivery and business innovation.

How do I make an impact on my team?

• Serve as the senior technical authority for Dev Ops, Platform Engineering, Infrastructure-as-Code, CI/CD, Data Ops, MLOps, and cloud automation practices.
• Define and maintain enterprise standards, reference architectures, reusable patterns, and governance frameworks for Azure cloud platforms and software delivery pipelines.
• Lead architecture reviews for cloud infrastructure, deployment automation, platform services, integrations, and enterprise modernization initiatives.
• Provide technical leadership and mentorship to software engineers, cloud engineers, Dev Ops engineers, and data engineers on cloud-native engineering practices.
• Establish and govern Infrastructure-as-Code standards, Terraform module strategy, pipeline standards, branching strategies, and release management processes across the organization.
• Drive adoption of platform engineering principles, self-service infrastructure, internal developer platforms, and automation-first operating models.
• Lead cloud platform modernization initiatives, application modernization efforts, migration programs, and operational transformation projects.
• Partner with Enterprise Architecture and Security teams to ensure cloud platforms align with cybersecurity, compliance, governance, and resiliency requirements.
• Define observability standards, SLOs, SLIs, operational metrics, and platform reliability objectives.
• Lead root cause analysis efforts for critical incidents and establish corrective actions to improve platform resilience and operational maturity.
• Evaluate emerging technologies, cloud-native services, AI-enabled automation platforms, and engineering tools to improve delivery capabilities and reduce operational complexity.
• Participate in technology roadmap development and provide recommendations regarding platform investments, automation opportunities, cloud strategy, and engineering best practices.
• Act as the highest level technical escalation point for complex platform, integration, automation, infrastructure, deployment, and cloud engineering issues.
• Support vendor evaluations, architecture reviews, proof-of-concepts, and technical due diligence activities.
• Collaborate closely with application development teams to optimize build, test, release, and deployment workflows, reducing cycle time and increasing release frequency.
• Architect, implement, and optimize multi-stage CI/CD pipelines using Azure Dev Ops, YAML, environments, templates, deployment groups, release gates, and Git Hub Actions.
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines supporting applications, APIs, microservices, infrastructure, data pipelines, Databricks workloads, analytics platforms, and machine learning deployments.
• Serve as a technical owner for Infrastructure-as-Code practices, ensuring cloud infrastructure, networking, security controls, and platform services are provisioned, managed, and governed through Terraform and version-controlled automation.
• Develop reusable Terraform modules, Bicep templates, ARM templates, shared pipeline templates, and platform blueprints to standardize deployment patterns across environments.
• Automate infrastructure provisioning using Terraform, Bicep, ARM templates, Azure CLI, and Power Shell, enforcing modular reusable patterns, policy-as-code, and enterprise guardrails.
• Implement policy-as-code, compliance-as-code, and governance automation using Azure Policy, Management Groups, RBAC, Defender for Cloud, and related Azure governance capabilities.
• Manage and optimize package repositories including Azure Artifacts, Git Hub Packages, NuGet, and npm, ensuring artifact integrity, traceability, and lifecycle control.
• Support IT governance of the code release lifecycle, including semantic versioning, automated tagging, changelog generation, approval workflows, and deployment auditability.
• Evaluate, integrate, and manage the Dev Ops toolchain, including build servers, artifact repositories,…