Senior DevOps Engineer

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Job Summary
Under the direction of the IT Director, the Senior DevOps Engineer is responsible for the administration, governance, and strategic enablement of the Azure DevOps platform across the organization. This role ensures that engineering teams are equipped with scalable, secure, and well-governed DevOps practices, and that the platform is maintained with high reliability and performance. The engineer will lead efforts to define best practices, enforce standards, and mentor teams in the effective use of Azure DevOps and related tools. In addition, they provide advanced support and troubleshooting for automation and deployment-related issues.
Essential Responsibilities:

• Administer and maintain the Azure DevOps platform, ensuring availability, performance, and scalability
• Define and enforce governance policies for project structure, branching strategies, permissions, and release pipelines
• Establish and maintain platform-wide standards for CI/CD, infrastructure as code, and artifact management
• Develop and promote best practices for DevOps workflows, including branching, versioning, testing, and deployment
• Implement and manage access controls, audit logging, and compliance requirements across the DevOps platform
• Ensure secure handling of secrets, credentials, and sensitive data within pipelines and repositories
• Support and govern infrastructure as code practices using tools such as Terraform, Git, Kubernetes, Argo, Bicep or ARM templates, etc.
• Integrate observability tools (e.g., Azure Monitor, Grafana, Prometheus) into DevOps workflows for proactive monitoring and alerting
• Manage and optimize build and release pipelines, container strategies, and deployment automation
• Stay current with Azure DevOps updates, industry trends, and emerging technologies to continuously improve platform capabilities

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, or related field
• 7+ years of proven experience as an SRE/DevOps Engineer with a focus on Microsoft Azure DevOps or related experience
• Proven experience designing and implementing CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure as code
• Strong understanding of Azure services, cloud architecture, and security best practices
• AZ-400 Certification (Azure DevOps Engineer Expert) strongly preferred
• Microsoft Power Platform suite (including Power Apps, Power Automate, and PowerBI), C# developed applications, Docker, LogicApps, Azure DevOps YAML Pipelines, PowerShell experience is preferred

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Additional Details:
Wipfli is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. All candidates will receive consideration for employment without regards to race, creed, color, religion, national origin, sex, age, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identify, veteran status, disability, or any other characteristics protected by federal, state, or local laws.
Wipfli is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for people with disabilities. If you require a reasonable accommodation to complete an application, interview, or participate in our recruiting process, please send us an email at [email protected]
Wipfli values fair, transparent, and competitive compensation, considering each candidate's unique skills and experiences. The estimated base pay range for this role is $88,000 to $118,000, with offers typically not made at the maximum, allowing for future salary increases. The actual salary at the time of offer depends on business related factors like location, skills, experience, training/education, licensure, certifications, business needs, current associate pay, and relevant employment laws.
Individuals may be eligible for an annual discretionary bonus, subject to participation rules and based on a variety of factors including, but not limited to, individual and Firm performance.
Wipfli cares about our associates and offers a variety of benefits to support their well-being. Highlights include 8 health plan options (both HMO & PPO plans), dental and vision coverage, opportunity to enroll in HSA with potential Firm contribution and an Employee Assistance Program. Other benefits include firm-sponsored basic life and short and long-term disability coverage, a 401(k) savings plan & profit share as well as Firm matching contribution, well-being incentive, education & certification assistance, flexible time off, family care leave, parental leave, family formation benefits, cell phone reimbursement, and travel rewards. Voluntary benefit offerings include critical illness & accident insurance, hospital indemnity insurance, legal, long-term care, pet insurance, ID theft protection, and supplemental life/AD&D. Eligibility for all benefits programs is dependent on annual hours expectation, position status/level and location.
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