DevOps Engineer III

Location:

Durham, NCABOUT USVictra is Verizon’s largest premium retailer in the United States. We thrive on collaboration, innovation, and performance. Our mission is to “Connect technology to life in a trustworthy, fun, and profitable way”. We work closely with Verizon and our brand partners to deliver exceptional product offerings, promotions, and campaigns that drive in-store traffic and revenue.

JOB DESCRIPTION:

The Senior Dev Ops Engineer III is a senior technical leader on the Cloud Platform & Dev Ops team, owning the design and direction of Victra’s Azure CI/CD and Infrastructure as Code estate, setting standards that other engineers build against, and serving as the primary technical bridge between Dev Ops and application development teams. This role operates with significant autonomy, makes architectural decisions that affect multiple teams, and elevates the capability of engineers across the organization.

Success requires a results-driven mindset, strong relationship building, strategic thinking, change leadership, and the ability to inspire others through technical expertise and influence. AI is a core part of how this team works, and this role is expected to use it fluently as a force multiplier while maintaining judgment and accountability for the output. Success in this role reflects Victra's core leadership principles including:
Results Driven, Strategic Thinking, Relationship Building, Change Management, and Customer Focus.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

Operate independently across Victra’s Azure Dev Ops and Azure platform footprint, owning performance and outcomes with a high level of personal accountability. [Results Driven]Make architectural decisions on pipelines, Bicep module architecture, branching strategies, environment topology, and release patterns, linking technical decisions to business goals and priorities. [Strategic Thinking]Own ambiguous, cross-cutting initiatives spanning multiple application teams, Azure subscriptions, and quarter-plus timelines; prioritize under pressure and remain accountable for commitments and results.

[Results Driven]Set technical direction for the Dev Ops function by establishing patterns, standards, and reference implementations that other engineers and application teams adopt, using expertise and influence to build commitment and support. [Inspirational Leadership / Relationship Building]Represent Dev Ops in architecture reviews, security reviews, and cross-functional planning, establishing reciprocal relationships across teams and communicating credibly with engineering leaders and individual developers.

[Relationship Building]Own the architecture of Azure Dev Ops YAML pipelines and reusable pipeline templates across the organization, defining what good looks like and driving teams toward scalable standards. [Strategic Thinking / Results Driven]Lead the design, refactoring, and governance of the Bicep module library, establishing module boundaries, parameter conventions, target-scope strategy, and versioning approaches across subscriptions and environments. [Strategic Thinking]Serve as the embedded technical partner for application development teams, translating platform constraints into developer-friendly patterns and developer needs into platform capabilities.

[Customer Focus / Relationship Building]Drive measurable improvements in deployment frequency, lead time for changes, change failure rate, and mean time to recovery (DORA metrics), building the instrumentation needed to demonstrate results. [Results Driven]Champion shift-left security practices including IaC scanning, SAST/DAST integration, secret scanning, dependency review, and policy-as-code; partner closely with Security on Azure Policy and Defender posture. [Change…