Azure Devops Developer with .Net

We’re looking for a Senior DevOps Engineer who lives and breathes build and release management. You’ll own the path from commit to production for our .NET services running on Azure Kubernetes Service - designing pipelines that make trunk-based development safe, fast, and boring. This is a hands-on role for someone who believes deployments should be a non-event that happens many times a day.

Our build and release footprint spans both Azure DevOps and GitHub Actions, and you’ll be the person who makes both ecosystems work well - consolidating where it makes sense, and keeping both healthy where it doesn’t.

This is an in-office role based in Dallas. We work side by side with the development teams we support, and that proximity is a big part of how we move fast - pipeline problems get solved at someone’s desk, not in a ticket queue.

What You’ll Do

• Own the design, implementation, and continuous improvement of CI/CD pipelines in Azure DevOps and GitHub Actions for .NET applications and services

• Drive trunk-based development practices: short-lived branches, fast and reliable PR validation, feature flags, and continuous integration into main

• Build and maintain progressive delivery patterns - blue/green, canary, and ring-based rollouts into AKS - with automated rollback on failed health gates

• Define and enforce release standards: versioning and tagging strategy, artifact promotion across environments, release notes automation, and change tracking

• Reduce build times and flaky test noise; treat pipeline reliability and developer feedback loops as first-class products with measurable SLOs

• Manage container build and image lifecycle (Docker, Azure Container Registry) including base image hygiene, caching strategy, and multi-stage build optimization

• Author and maintain infrastructure as code - Bicep and/or Terraform, Helm charts, and Kustomize overlays - so that environments are reproducible and drift is visible

• Embed security into the delivery pipeline: SAST/DAST, dependency and container scanning, SBOM generation, artifact signing and provenance, and policy-as-code gates

• Manage secrets and identity properly - Azure Key Vault, workload identity, OIDC federation for pipeline auth, and elimination of long-lived credentials

• Build observability into releases: deployment health signals, DORA metrics (lead time, deployment frequency, change failure rate, MTTR), and dashboards/alerting via Azure Monitor, Application Insights, Prometheus, or Grafana

• Partner directly with development teams - unblock them, review their pipeline changes, and raise the bar on delivery practices through coaching rather than gatekeeping

• Participate in on-call rotation and incident response for platform and delivery systems; lead blameless postmortems and drive the follow-through

• 5+ years in DevOps, platform, or release engineering, with significant time owning build and release systems

• Deep, practical experience with Azure DevOps Pipelines and GitHub Actions - YAML pipelines, templates, reusable workflows, self-hosted runners/agents, environments, and approval gates

• Strong Azure experience: AKS, Container Registry, Key Vault, Entra ID / managed identity, networking fundamentals, and resource governance

• Production Kubernetes experience - deployments, services, ingress, autoscaling, resource tuning, and real-world troubleshooting under pressure

• Solid understanding of the .NET build and packaging ecosystem: MSBuild, dotnet CLI, NuGet feeds and versioning, and multi-service solution builds

• Demonstrated success with trunk-based development in a fast-moving environment - you can speak concretely about branching policy, merge queues, feature flags, and keeping main releasable at all times

• Infrastructure as code proficiency with Bicep, ARM, or Terraform, plus Helm for Kubernetes packaging

• Scripting and automation in PowerShell, Bash, and/or Python; comfortable writing tooling, not just configuring it

• Working knowledge of supply chain security practices and secure secrets handling in CI/CD

• Clear written and verbal communication - you document decisions and can explain tradeoffs to engineers and leadership alike

Nice to Have

• Experience consolidating or migrating between Azure DevOps and GitHub (or running both at scale)

• GitOps tooling - Argo CD or Flux

• Service mesh (Istio, Linkerd) or advanced AKS networking

• Policy-as-code with OPA/Gatekeeper or Azure Policy

• Experience in a regulated or audited environment (SOC 2, PCI, HIPAA) - building controls that satisfy auditors without slowing teams down

• Database deployment automation (EF Core migrations, DACPAC, Flyway/Liquibase)

• Performance and load testing integrated into the release pipeline

• Azure certifications (AZ-400, AZ-104) or CKA/CKAD