DevOps Engineer (Azure DevOps Focus)

We’re looking for a DevOps Engineer who can bring clarity and consistency to our Azure DevOps environment, improve how we release and operate software, and support both our modern Enterprise platform and legacy systems that remain critical to our business.

This is not a maintenance role. This is an opportunity to build, improve, and influence how our engineering organization operates.

Why This Role Matters

• Help stabilize and scale a growing SaaS platform
• Bring structure to how we build, deploy, and release software
• Reduce operational risk and improve system reliability
• Elevate the development team through better tools and practices
• Play a key role in bridging Product, Engineering, and IT

What You’ll Do

Own and Improve Our Azure DevOps Environment

• 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

Strengthen Release and Deployment Practices

• 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

Improve Monitoring, Reliability, and Response

• 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

Support Infrastructure and Environment Consistency

• 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

Work Across Modern and Legacy Systems

• 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

This is a practical environment - not everything is greenfield, and your ability to navigate that matters.

Elevate the Team

• 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

This role does not require formal management, but it does require leadership through expertise.

• 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

Preferred

• 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

What Sets You Apart

• You bring structure to environments that are not fully defined
• You focus on improving systems, not just maintaining them
• You take ownership of problems and follow through to resolution
• You communicate clearly across technical and non-technical teams
• You are comfortable influencing teams without formal authority, Must be willing to undergo a background check/drug screening in accordance with local law/regulations. This position requires a valid driver’s license.

Job Type: Full-time, * hands-on Azure DevOps: 4 years (Required)

3.93.9 out of 5 stars Remote From $100,000 a year - Full-time, Pulled from the full job description

• Referral program
• 401(k)
• Health insurance
• 401(k) matching
• Paid time off
• Vision insurance
• Health savings account, Salary starting at $100,000+, open based on experience. Compensation is flexible for candidates who bring strong technical leadership and system-level impact., * 401(k)
• 401(k) matching
• Dental insurance
• Employee assistance program
• Flexible spending account
• Health insurance
• Health savings account
• Life insurance
• Paid time off
• Referral program
• Vision insurance

Pay: From $100,000.00 per year, * 401(k)

• Dental insurance
• Health insurance
• Paid time off
• Vision insurance

HydroCorp is a national leader in cross-connection control and water system safety. Our software platforms support municipalities and utilities in protecting public water systems., * Beyond pipeline tooling, have you directly administered servers, managed DNS/SSL certificates, or owned vendor and subscription accounts for an engineering team? Briefly describe which of these you’ve handled and in what capacity.

• Have you directly administer Windows Server environments - including patching, configuration, and performance monitoring - outside of a managed cloud service?
• Have you managed third-party vendor accounts, SaaS tool subscriptions, or software licensing for an engineering team? If so, roughly how many vendors or tools were involved.
• Upload a cover letter telling us about a specific environment you improved - what it looked like when you arrived, what you changed, and what the outcome was. Then briefly explain why this role is the right next step for you.
• This is a fully remote role with core collaboration hours in Eastern Time. Are you available to work primarily within Eastern Time Zone business hours?