Sr Azure DevOps Engineer

The Sr. DevOps Engineer designs, builds, and administers continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) solutions for applications and infrastructure in alignment with Assurant standards and the approved technology stack. The primary function of this role is to own and operate a shared, high-availability Azure API Management (APIM) platform, ensuring availability, performance, security, and compliance (including TLS certificate lifecycle management) for SLA/SLO-backed, high-priority clients. The role also supports application deployments and release activities (for example, deployment planning, release coordination, and release automation), builds Azure cloud and platform capabilities, and standardizes and automates delivery and operational workflows (for example, automated quality gates, self-service provisioning, and standardized deployment processes). The role maintains configuration and automation tooling to establish repeatable practices and standards.

What will be my duties and responsibilities in this job?

• Training: Develops and promotes software-defined operations and infrastructure-as-code practices. Troubleshoots complex system and pipeline issues, shares lessons learned, and contributes to team enablement through documentation, pairing, and knowledge transfer.

• Strategy: Leads automation of configuration management and CI/CD across development, QA, UAT, pre-production, and production environments, including infrastructure-as-code (IaC) services. Owns the operational strategy for the shared Azure API Management (APIM) platform, including platform health, scaling/performance, upgrades/patching, certificate currency, and change practices required to meet stringent SLAs. Follows the defined SDLC and leverages reusable components to accelerate delivery. Owns ongoing improvements to configuration management tools, shared modules, and pipeline templates to streamline implementation, improve reliability, and reduce operational toil.

• Design and Development: Builds and optimizes enterprise-grade automation platforms and pipelines. Defines scaling, resilience, and deployment strategies; develops automation scripts and solutions to streamline provisioning, implementation, and testing of technology services. Creates self-service capabilities that enable engineering teams to deliver at speed with quality and reliability. Provides architectural input and technical leadership for DevOps tooling and platform standards.

• Collaboration and Support: Partners with application, security, and infrastructure teams to design and implement CI/CD, IaC, and operational practices. Develops and maintains reusable tools and patterns (for example, shared pipeline tasks and modules). Supports application deployments and release execution by coordinating cutovers, implementing deployment strategies (blue/green, canary, rolling), and improving release automation and operational readiness (runbooks, validations, and rollback). Implements automated controls for releases and deployments and produces audit evidence to support audit review and compliance requirements. Performs cross-coverage support for deployments when other DevOps and Release Engineering team members are unavailable to ensure release continuity. Provides implementation support, operational documentation, and on-call/incident support as needed to meet quality, security, and reliability standards.

• Knowledge: Stays current on industry best practices and emerging technologies related to CI/CD, IaC, cloud platforms, observability, and secure software supply chains, including responsible and enterprise-safe use of AI-assisted developer tools. Researches, pilots, and helps operationalize improvements (for example, metrics/telemetry and automated quality gates) that can be reused across software delivery efforts. Promotes modern ways of working and continuous improvement., * Responsible use of AI-assisted developer tools (for example, GitHub Copilot, Claude Code, or similar) to accelerate scripting, pipeline/IaC development, troubleshooting, and documentation.

• Enterprise-safe usage patterns: data-handling awareness, prompt hygiene, code review expectations, and validation/testing of AI-generated output.

• Automation-first mindset: standardize and automate delivery and operations workflows (self-service provisioning, automated quality gates, deployment automation, and operational runbooks).

• Process automation and integration across toolchains (CI/CD, ITSM/change processes, notifications/ChatOps, and observability) to reduce toil and improve reliability.

Do you have experience in YAML?, Do you have a Bachelor's degree?, * B achelor's degree in computer science or any other relevant STEM field is desired

• 5+ years of working experience in a DevOps capacity, preferably as a DevOps Engineer
• Experience as a SRE, Release Engineering, Platform Engineering, or related software engineering roles with significant automation and cloud responsibilities is a plus.
• 3+ years working with Azure, YAML, CI/CD pipelines, Terraform and Github
• 3+ years of experience working with tools and languages such as C#/Java, Python, PowerShell, Bash, JavaScript, JSNode, SQL and MongoDB.
• 3+ years of experience with Azure API Management (APIM), including API gateway configuration, policies, deployments, and integration with CI/CD.
• Experience operating shared/multi-tenant platforms with SLA-driven operational practices (capacity management, maintenance windows, change control, stakeholder communications).
• The candidate must also have experience automating the management of large-scale infrastructure.
• The candidate must have experience in systems automation, orchestration, deployment, and implementation across multiple layers of the stack.
• Experience configuring and automating monitoring tool systems and responses is a must.
• A suitable candidate will further demonstrate experience in horizontally scaled distributed systems, for example, ELK, Container Management and Orchestration platforms.
• The candidate must also have worked with monitoring tools such as Dynatrace, NewRelic, CloudWatch, Azure Monitor, and Nimsoft.

What other skills/experience would be helpful to have?

• Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, or any other relevant STEM field, or equivalent experience
• Familiarity with leveraging the Microsoft tool chain for DevOps including but not limited to:

• Azure DevOps
• Octopus and/or Microsoft Release Manager
• Azure and related platforms and technologies (Cosmos DB, Application Insights, SQL PaaS, etc.)
• PowerShell and PowerShell DSC
• Microsoft Service Fabric

• Additional DevOps Experience a plus on any of the following disciplines:

• CI/CD toolchains, Maven, Jenkins, etc.
• Configuration management and orchestration tools, such as Ansible, Chef, Terraform
• Container orchestration tools, such as Kubernetes, Mesos, or Swarm
• Use of the Atlassian stack (Jira, etc.)

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If no application deadline is provided, this role may be a pipeline requisition, and we'll continue to collect applications on an ongoing basis, or there is no requirement for this information in the location where the role is posted.

Any posted pay range considers a wide range of compensation factors, including candidate background, experience, and work location, while also allowing for salary growth within the position.

260 Interstate North Circle SE, Atlanta, GA 30339 Hybrid work $88,000 - $147,000 a year - Full-time

Assurant is a leading global business services company that supports, protects, and connects major consumer purchases. A Fortune 500 company with a presence in 21 countries, Assurant supports the advancement of the connected world by partnering with the world's leading brands to develop innovative solutions and deliver an enhanced customer experience through mobile device solutions, extended service contracts, vehicle protection services, renters insurance, lender-placed insurance products, and other specialty products.