[Remote] Senior DevOps Engineer, Applications
Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. WME is building internal platforms that support a leading entertainment company and is seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer, Applications. The role owns cloud infrastructure and system reliability end to end, including Azure provisioning, Kubernetes deployments, CI/CD, observability, PostgreSQL operations, incident response, and support for migration from a legacy platform.
Responsibilities
- Own and evolve Azure infrastructure using Terraform — networking, compute, managed services, and secrets
- Manage Kubernetes clusters and Helm-based deployments for a distributed microservices platform
- Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions / Azure DevOps) that keep deployments fast and safe
- Define and improve observability: metrics, logging, alerting, and tracing across services
- Lead incident response — drive resolution, write postmortems, and follow through on reliability improvements
- Manage PostgreSQL infrastructure: backups, replication, failover, and query performance
- Collaborate closely with engineers to improve local development environments and deployment workflows
- Enforce security best practices: secrets management, network policies, access controls, and vulnerability scanning
Skills
- Solid DevOps or platform engineering experience, typically 5+ years
- Strong hands-on experience with Azure (AKS, Azure AD, managed databases, blob storage, networking)
- Terraform experience — writing, organizing, and maintaining infrastructure as code at scale
- Kubernetes and Helm experience managing production workloads
- Experience building and operating CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, or similar)
- PostgreSQL experience — operational management, migrations, and performance tuning
- Solid understanding of observability tooling (Datadog, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, or equivalent)
- Experience with incident response and driving reliability improvements from postmortems
- Docker and container image management experience
- Familiarity with secrets management tools (Azure Key Vault, Vault, or equivalent)
- Comfortable working in environments where systems and processes are still evolving
Benefits
- As applicable, short- and long-term incentives
- Growth and developmental opportunities
- Robust benefits, such as health care, retirement, vacation and other paid time off, and additional offerings
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