[Remote] Senior DevOps Engineer, Applications
Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Right Balance provides technology talent and is seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer to join a client's Platform Engineering team. The role owns cloud infrastructure and reliability across Azure, Kubernetes, CI/CD, observability, security, and PostgreSQL while supporting migration from a legacy platform to a modern cloud-native stack.
Responsibilities
- Own and evolve Azure infrastructure using Terraform, including networking, compute, managed services, and secrets
- Manage Kubernetes clusters and Helm-based deployments for a distributed microservices platform
- Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, or similar tools
- Define and improve observability across metrics, logging, alerting, and tracing
- Lead incident response, drive resolution, and implement reliability improvements following postmortems
- Manage PostgreSQL infrastructure, including backups, replication, failover, migrations, and performance
- Collaborate closely with engineers to improve local development environments and deployment workflows
- Implement and enforce security best practices across infrastructure and applications
- Support the migration from a legacy .NET/MSSQL platform to a modern cloud-native stack
- Build developer tooling and automation that reduce friction and improve engineering productivity
Skills
- • Upper-intermediate to fluent speaking and writing English. Able to have a real-time conversation
- • 5+ years of DevOps, Platform Engineering, or similar infrastructure experience
- • Strong hands-on experience with Microsoft Azure, including AKS, Azure AD, managed databases, blob storage, and networking
- • Strong experience with Terraform and infrastructure as code at scale
- • Production experience with Kubernetes and Helm
- • Experience building and operating CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, or similar tools
- • Strong experience with PostgreSQL, including operational management, migrations, and performance tuning
- • Solid understanding of observability tools and practices such as Datadog, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, or equivalent
- • Experience with incident response and implementing reliability improvements based on postmortems
- • Strong experience with Docker and container image management
- • Familiarity with secrets management tools such as Azure Key Vault, HashiCorp Vault, or equivalent
- • Comfortable working in environments where systems and processes are still evolving
- 1. Experience supporting large-scale legacy application migrations
- 2. Experience migrating from .NET / Microsoft SQL Server environments to cloud-native architectures
- 3. Experience with gRPC and distributed microservices
- 4. Experience supporting Next.js applications and modern web platforms
- 5. Experience building platform engineering or developer productivity tooling
- 6. Experience working in greenfield infrastructure environments
- 7. Familiarity with AI-assisted development and engineering workflows
- 8. Experience establishing DevOps standards and practices within a growing engineering organization
Benefits
- 100% remote. Work anywhere, whether it is remotely in the comfort of your home, in a shared co-working space, in an RV on the beach, or while being a nomad in another country.
- Learn and evolve your skills using the latest and greatest technology tools in a rapidly growing company.
- Learn from the best people around you. We constantly challenge the status quo and invent new ways of building a great product.
- Work on challenging problems, innovate, and positively impact many people's lives while having fun doing it.
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