Senior DevOps Engineer

**This is an opportunity to join a collaborative team of cloud and DevOps professionals delivering impactful projects and managing complex client environments. This role is fully remote, indefinitely.**

A Senior DevOps Engineer plays a critical role in building, automating, and maintaining infrastructure that supports fast, secure, and reliable software delivery. This role focuses on streamlining CI/CD pipelines, optimizing cloud environments, and enforcing best practices around deployment, monitoring, and scaling. The role involves working closely with Development, QA, and IT teams to ensure the platform remains stable, scalable, and developer friendly.

Highlights & Benefits of working at Emergent Software

• Work closely with other talented cloud engineers. Our vetting process means you can count on your team members to know what they are talking about.

• Work from home or work remotely from anywhere you want

• Flexible work schedule meaning you can work regular hours or choose weekends and evenings

• Work-life balance is essential and highly valued at Emergent Software. If you choose to work more than 40 hours, you’ll be compensated for the extra work!

• Work on interesting projects solving complex business problems with custom software.

• 100 hours per year to focus on your professional development. We invest in your growth!

• Grow your career without leaving the tech track. At Emergent Software, you can advance and be recognized as a technical expert without transitioning into people management. We value deep technical expertise as much as leadership and have established clear career paths for those who want to stay hands-on. Profit sharing bonus means as we’re successful, you’re successful

• Excellent benefits package including medical insurance, dental, vision, 401(k) matching, FSA, disability, life insurance, and paid parental leave

Responsibilities

• Automation: Designing and implementing automation for common tasks including CI/CD Pipelines, Infrastructure Provisioning, Monitoring / Alerting, Configuration Management, Customer onboarding, etc.

• Infrastructure Management: Designing and maintaining cloud infrastructure, ensuring it is scalable, secure, and cost-effective

• Collaboration: Working closely with development and operations teams to ensure seamless integration and delivery of software.

• Security: Implementing security best practices to protect the infrastructure and data.\Continuous Improvement: Continuously evaluating and improving processes to enhance efficiency and reliability.

• Monitoring and Troubleshooting: Setting up monitoring tools to track system performance and quickly address any issues that arise.

Consulting and Client Engagement Context

This role operates within a consulting environment, supporting multiple client engagements that vary widely in technical maturity, documentation quality, and constraints. Success in this role requires strong technical judgment, adaptability, and the ability to build trust with clients while driving meaningful technical outcomes.

• Engage directly with clients to understand business goals, technical constraints, and risk tolerance

• Diagnose and improve existing systems that may be partially implemented or inconsistently managed

• Communicate technical concepts, tradeoffs, and recommendations clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders

• Balance pragmatic delivery with long-term maintainability and best practices

• Operate effectively in situations with incomplete information and evolving requirements

• Accurately track time and work performed to support client billing, project planning, and overall project health within a professional services delivery model

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience in DevOps, cloud engineering, or infrastructure roles

• Strong experience designing and supporting cloud environments, preferably in Azure or AWS

• Hands-on experience with infrastructure as code and automated deployments

• Deep understanding of CI/CD concepts and pipeline design

• Strong troubleshooting skills in distributed systems

• Experience working directly with stakeholders or clients

• Ability to operate independently and take ownership of delivery outcomes

Technical Skills

A Senior DevOps Engineer brings a strong blend of technical and operational skills to streamline software delivery and infrastructure management. You should be comfortable working end‑to‑end across modern DevOps tooling while collaborating closely with cross‑functional teams.

Azure Cloud

• Deep experience designing, implementing, and managing Azure infrastructure and Azure services networking, storage, and cost optimization.

• Familiarity with a broad range of Azure services and established cloud patterns (e.g., networking, identity, monitoring, and scalability)

Infrastructure as Code (IaC)

• Familiarity with IaC principles (idempotency, modular design, reuse, environment parity, and safe change management)

• Automating provisioning and configuration of infrastructure across environments.

• Tools: Terraform, Ansible, Chef, CloudFormation, Pulumi.

CI/CD Tools & Pipelines

• Designing, managing, and optimizing automated build, test, and deployment pipelines.

• Tools: Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, GitLab CI, CircleCI, and Travis CI.

Networking Fundamentals

• Understanding Networking in Azure and other clouds

• Tools: Virtual Networks, Express Route, VPN Gateways, ZTNA, Global Secure Access

Version Control Systems

• Proficiency in Git, SVN, GitOps, and Trunk based workflows.

• Managing code changes, branching strategies, and rollback mechanisms.

• Tools: Git, Github, Azure DevOps

Scripting & Programming

• Build and maintain automation (scripts/tools) to streamline deployments and reduce manual toil.

• Familiarity with the .NET ecosystem is highly desired

• Languages: Bash, PowerShell, Python, C#, JavaScript, Ruby, Go

Monitoring & Logging

• Setting up observability, alerts, and performance dashboards.

• Tools: Azure Monitor, Prometheus, Grafana, ELK Stack, New Relic, Datadog.

Security & Compliance

• Implementing secure DevOps practices (DevSecOps) while managing secrets, access controls and compliance audits.

• Tools: Azure Policy, Azure Managment Groups, Defender, SonarQube, Trivy, Open Policy Agent

System Administration

• Strong knowledge of Windows and Linux/Unix systems.

• Managing servers, networking, and performance tuning.

• Tools: Azure Monitor, Azure Bastion, Azure Backup

Disaster Recovery & High Availability

• Designing and Implementing Disaster Recovery Plans that ensure High Availability, system resiliency, and minimal downtime

• Tools: Azure Site Recovery, Availability Zones, Azure Front Door, NGINX

Preferred Skills

• Consulting or professional services experience

• Familiarity with the .NET ecosystem

• Experience designing standardized DevOps patterns across multiple teams or projects

• Exposure to FinOps practices and cost optimization strategies

• Experience mentoring engineers or providing technical leadership

Certifications (Nice to Have)

• DevOps Engineer Expert (AZ-400)

• Azure Solutions Architect Expert (AZ-305)

• GitHub Administration (GH-100)

• GitHub Actions (GH-200)

• GitHub Copilot (GH-300)

• Certified Docker Associate

• Linux foundation Certified IT Associate

• Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)

• Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD)

• Certified Kubernetes Security Specialist (CKS)

• FinOps Foundation certifications

• Terraform Associate

• Terraform Authoring & Operations Professional

• Cloudflare Accredited Configuration Engineer

• Cloudflare Accredited Services Architect

Our Vetting Process

At Emergent Software, we work hard to find the best people capable of delivering high quality services to our clients. If you think you’re one of those, please understand that the effort put into this by people like yourself helps us be successful in surrounding you with other top-notch people. Here are the steps of our vetting process for this position:

1. Application (5 minutes)

2. Online Assessment (40-50 minutes)

3. Initial Phone Interview (45-60 minutes)

4. Hiring Manager Interview (30 minutes)

5. Take Home Challenge

6. Technical Interview (60 minutes)

7. Job Offer

Benefits Package Details

• Medical Insurance: up to 84% of your monthly medical premium (HSA options available)

• HSA Contribution: up to $200/month

• Dental & Vision Insurance: up to 50% of your monthly dental and vision premium costs

• 401(k) plan: company match up to 4% of salary

• Profit sharing bonus: up to 15% of salary paid quarterly

• Extra compensation: get paid extra for work over 40 hours/week

• Employee referral & customer referral bonuses

• Flex Spending Account (FSA) for Dependent Care & Healthcare Costs

• Short Term Disability: $500/week for 12 weeks

• Long Term Disability: up to $6,000/month

• Group term life and AD&D insurance: $50k

• PTO, standard holidays, 2 floating holidays

• Paid parental leave

• Staff development program: 100 hours/year plus training costs

About Emergent Software

Emergent Software is a fast-growing software development, cloud consulting, and data engineering company serving clients across the country. We are regularly adding to our team of talented software engineers, cloud architects, data engineers, UX designers, technical product owners and more who can help us deliver high quality services for our clients.

We are a remote-first company

Since our inception, we've embraced a remote-friendly culture, promoting work flexibility beyond the norm. When the pandemic struck in 2020, our transition to fully remote work was seamless—just a matter of cleaning out the fridge. Recognizing an opportunity, we adopted a remote-first approach and began hiring talent from anywhere. We continue to offer our signature Minnesota-nice, Midwest-friendly attitude, ensuring everyone feels valued, whether or not they're familiar with the skyway system.

Your career grows with us

Working with talented people on interesting projects creates an engaging environment for software development enthusiasts. By working directly with our experienced team, participating in our staff development program, and solving complex problems across a variety of projects, you’ll find numerous opportunities for long-term career growth.

At Emergent Software, your ideas will be heard, you will grow exponentially as a master of your craft, and you will enjoy working other dedicated team members to deliver software solutions for our clients.

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Highlights

In this role, you will lead cloud and DevOps solutions for real client environments, balancing hands-on delivery with technical leadership and long-term system quality.