Senior DevOps Engineer

Company Overview

Since 2012, we've grown to become one of the leading single‑family rental companies and homebuilders in the country, recently recognized as a top employer by Fortune and Great Place To Work. At AMH, our goal is to simplify the experience of leasing a home through professional management and maintenance support, so our residents can focus on what really matters to them, wherever they are in life.

The Senior Dev Ops Engineer is responsible for ensuring seamless continuity between Software Development, Infrastructure, and IT Operational Teams. The role ensures the quality, integrity, security, stability, and overall maintenance of the release pipelines. Also responsible for the selection and implementation of tools and processes that enable rapid development and deployment of software. Embraces continuous integration and deployment in a delivery pipeline that performs automated quality checks, deploys cloud infrastructure and applications quickly, and provides operational metrics that can be consumed by development teams.

Supports all areas of the application release and deployment cycle and must be able to work in a cross‑functional team environment and collaborate effectively to deliver and maintain solutions. Manages projects and processes independently with limited supervision and may coach and review the work of lower‑level staff. The problems faced are difficult and sometimes complex.

• Establish and configure deployment containers, automate deployments, maintain scripts and/or configurations used for environment monitoring and task automation.
• Establish, maintain, and deploy new and/or existing infrastructure resources, Azure components, and networking.
• Participate and facilitate release and change management processes, including development and execution of test scripts, implementation plans, validation plans, and rollback plans.
• Ensure compliance, security, roles, and access to assigned application set in conjunction with IT controls and standards.
• Provide solution guidance for different scenarios on outages and various problems, incidents, and/or opportunities presented to the team.
• Create process documentation, procedures, and policies; keep documentation up to date and work with IT teams to address concerns and maintain dictated standards within the application set responsible.
• Act in a responsible manner to control costs while deploying solutions, using best practices for cloud resource management.

• High School Diploma or GED required.
• Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Technology, and/or related field preferred or equivalent work experience.
• Minimum five (5) years of experience working as a Dev Ops Engineer in software development and/or infrastructure.
• Minimum five (5) years of experience creating, enhancing, and maintaining CI/CD pipelines.
• Minimum of three (3) years of experience with software development release tools; containers, scripting, and workflows, preferred Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, Git, Azure Dev Ops. Knowledge and experience with container technologies; administering and maintaining Azure cloud resources specifically Virtual Machines, App Services, Functions, Azure SQL Database, Virtual Network, Azure DNS, ADLS, Cosmos DB, App Insights, Key Vault, Application Gateways, API Management, Front Door, and Batch.
• Excellent verbal and written communication, problem‑solving, and critical thinking skills.
• Exceptional troubleshooting and solutioning skills.
• Must be able to quickly assess complex programming applications.
• Must be able to lift/carry 20 pounds waist height.

The anticipated pay range/scale for this position is $ to $ annually. Actual starting base pay within this range will depend on factors including geographic location, education, training, skills, and relevant experience.

This position is eligible to receive a discretionary annual bonus.

Employees have the opportunity to participate in medical, dental and vision insurance; flexible spending accounts and/or health savings accounts; dependent savings accounts; 401(k) with company matching contributions; employee stock purchase plan; and a tuition reimbursement program. The company provides nine paid holidays per year, and, upon hire, new employees will accrue paid time off (PTO) at a rate of 0.0577 hours of PTO per hour worked, up to a maximum of 120 hours per year.

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