DevOps Engineer (Azure DevOps Focus)

HydroCorp is a national leader in cross-connection control and water system safety. They are seeking a DevOps Engineer to improve their Azure DevOps environment, enhance software release processes, and support both modern and legacy systems. This role emphasizes building and influencing the engineering organization to achieve greater reliability and scalability.

Responsibilities:

• Design, build, and maintain Azure DevOps (ADO) pipelines
• Improve release processes to be predictable, repeatable, and low-risk
• Establish deployment visibility and traceability across environments (dev, pre-prod, production)
• Reduce reliance on manual steps and individual knowledge
• Standardize how code moves from development to production
• Partner with engineering to improve branching, merging, and release workflows
• Support regression and release readiness processes
• Help the team ship with confidence and consistency
• Implement and refine monitoring, logging, and alerting (Azure Monitor, Application Insights, etc.)
• Identify and resolve system performance or reliability issues
• Improve incident response and recovery processes
• Support post-release and post-incident learnings
• Help manage and standardize cloud environments in Azure
• Introduce or improve infrastructure-as-code practices where appropriate
• Ensure consistency across environments and deployments
• Support scaling as product usage grows
• Administer and maintain Windows Server environments across dev, pre-prod, and production, including patching, performance monitoring, and configuration management
• Manage DNS records, domain registrations, and SSL/TLS certificate lifecycle across all company-owned domains
• Maintain and manage vendor accounts, software subscriptions, and third-party service credentials, including onboarding, renewals, and access control
• Support DevOps practices across both Enterprise and legacy systems
• Help reduce friction between older and newer systems
• Bring consistency and stability across a mixed environment
• Guide developers on DevOps best practices and operational awareness
• Help the team adopt scalable and reliable patterns
• Influence how we build, release, and support software
• Act as a go-to resource for DevOps and operational questions

Requirements:

• 4–7+ years of experience in DevOps, SRE, or similar role
• Strong hands-on experience with Azure DevOps (ADO), including pipelines and release management
• Experience working within Azure cloud environments
• Experience designing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines
• Experience with monitoring, logging, and alerting tools
• Scripting or automation experience (PowerShell, Bash, Python, or similar)
• Experience working closely with development teams
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, ARM, Bicep)
• Experience with containerization (Docker, Kubernetes/AKS)
• Experience improving release processes at a team or organizational level
• Experience working in a SaaS environment
• Experience supporting both modern and legacy systems
• Familiarity with CIS benchmarks and system hardening practices; experience with security administration tools a plus