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Senior Azure DevOps Engineer (AKS & AI)

  • Remote (US)
  • Contract
  • Posted November 6, 2026

This is a remote role, open to candidates based in the United States.

About the role

We’re looking for a senior DevOps Engineer with deep Azure experience and some hands-on AI knowledge. You’ll design and support secure, highly available Azure infrastructure, focused on AKS, Azure networking, Application Gateway and Front Door, and automate it with Terraform and GitHub Actions.

What you’ll do

  • Design, implement and support secure, scalable, highly available Azure infrastructure.
  • Develop infrastructure as code with Terraform and automate deployments with GitHub Actions.
  • Monitor, troubleshoot and optimize environments with Dynatrace, Splunk and Azure Monitor.
  • Help development teams resolve infrastructure and pipeline issues.
  • Build AI-native solutions where they fit.

What you’ll bring

  • 12+ years in IT, including 5+ years of hands-on Azure cloud engineering and operations.
  • Strong Azure networking expertise: VNets, peering, NSGs, UDRs, Private Endpoints, DNS, load balancers, ExpressRoute and VPN.
  • 6+ years with AKS: cluster deployment, upgrades, ingress, networking, scaling, security and troubleshooting.
  • 6+ years with Azure Application Gateway and Front Door: WAF, SSL/TLS termination, path-based routing, global load balancing and high availability.
  • 6+ years with Terraform: modules, remote state, CI/CD integration and multi-environment deployments.
  • 6+ years with GitHub Actions: CI/CD, automated deployments, security scanning and release management.
  • Strong Kubernetes, Docker and microservices experience.
  • Hands-on experience implementing AI-based solutions.
  • Experience supporting large enterprise Azure environments that host business-critical applications.
  • Daily use of AI tools such as GitHub Copilot and Microsoft 365 Copilot.

Nice to have

  • 4+ years with Dynatrace and 4+ years with Splunk.
  • AWS.
  • Multi-region, highly available cloud architectures.
  • DevSecOps, container security, vulnerability management and compliance.
  • Healthcare, health insurance or healthcare technology experience.