Junior Azure DevOps Engineer

Description

The company is a technology solutions firm based in Bellevue, Washington, with teams across the United States. It connects strategy and execution across AI, cloud, data, product development, and emerging technology.

The role is hands-on. You will build and run the infrastructure, automation, and deployment pipelines that software development and AI model training depend on. The work mixes DevOps, Python automation, cloud infrastructure, and build and release engineering, with the goal of making systems more reliable, cutting manual effort, and helping engineering teams ship faster. You will dig into complex technical problems and automate repeated work in a collaborative, onsite engineering setting.

You will work with people who bring different experience and viewpoints, and you will get chances to take on meaningful challenges, grow your skills, and see what you build make a difference.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and improve CI/CD pipelines over time.
• Automate building, testing, validating, packaging, deploying, and releasing software.
• Write Python scripts and automation tools that smooth out engineering and operations work.
• Set up and keep cloud infrastructure and development environments running.
• Run source control, branching approaches, build systems, artifact storage, and release workflows.
• Build and maintain Infrastructure as Code and configuration automation.
• Handle software dependencies, environment settings, credentials, secrets, and deployment configuration.
• Set up and maintain monitoring, logging, alerting, and health checks.
• Diagnose build failures, deployment problems, infrastructure faults, networking issues, and environment configuration errors.
• Raise system reliability, deployment consistency, release quality, and developer productivity through automation.
• Support containerized applications and their deployment environments where relevant.
• Spot repetitive manual work and replace it with automated solutions.
• Work with software engineers and technical stakeholders to refine development, testing, and deployment processes.
• Write and update technical documentation, operating procedures, and troubleshooting guides.
• Assess and adopt tools that improve automation, infrastructure management, and engineering workflows.

Requirements

• A bachelor's degree in a technical or related field.
• At least 2 years of hands-on work in DevOps, CI/CD, build engineering, or release engineering.
• Strong skills in Python programming and scripting.
• Experience with Microsoft Azure or another major cloud platform.
• Experience with Git and current source control workflows.
• Hands-on use of CI/CD tools such as Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, or similar platforms.
• A working understanding of how software is built, tested, deployed, and released.
• Experience fixing infrastructure, build, deployment, and environment problems.
• Familiarity with Windows, Linux, or both.
• Ability to investigate technical problems on your own, find root causes, and carry out fixes.
• Clear technical writing and communication, and the ability to work across functions.
• Preferred: experience with Azure DevOps and GitHub.
• Preferred: experience with Docker and containerized application environments.
• Preferred: familiarity with Kubernetes or other container orchestration tools.
• Preferred: experience with Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform, Bicep, ARM templates, or Ansible.
• Preferred: experience with monitoring, logging, observability, and alerting tools.
• Preferred: familiarity with networking, identity and access management, certificates, secrets management, and cloud security.
• Preferred: experience supporting development, testing, staging, and production environments.
• Preferred: experience building automation for AI model training, deployment pipelines, or other machine learning workflows.
• Preferred: experience in large-scale or enterprise engineering environments.

Conditions

The role is onsite.

For candidates based in Washington State, the expected salary range is $40/hr to $45/hr.

Pay depends on skills, education, responsibilities, experience, and geographic market. The company rarely hires at the top of the range, and starting pay is set by experience, skills, and internal equity.

The final salary and job title may differ from the stated range based on the chosen candidate's qualifications.

The company is an equal opportunity employer.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision coverage.
• Flexible Spending Account (FSA).
• 401(k) retirement plan.
• Competitive paid time off.
• Parental leave.
• Professional growth and development opportunities.
• Benefits and eligibility may vary by role, employment status, and location.