DevOps Engineer

Independence Pet Holdings is a corporate holding company managing a diverse portfolio of modern pet health brands and services. They are seeking a DevOps Engineer to design and operate their Azure application platform, ensuring high availability and resilience while implementing CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure as code strategies.

Responsibilities:

• You will design and operate the application layer of our Azure platform, including:
• Multi-region deployment patterns across Azure regions for high availability and resilience
• Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) for core application workloads
• Azure Functions for event-driven and serverless components
• Azure Service Bus for asynchronous messaging and decoupled architectures
• Azure API Management (APIM) for secure and scalable API exposure
• Azure Front Door for global routing, performance optimization, and failover
• You will ensure these services are deployed in a consistent, production-ready manner with clear standards that teams can follow
• You will build and evolve our application delivery model using Azure DevOps (ADO) and GitOps principles
• Design advanced CI/CD pipelines with automated testing, security gates, and approval workflows
• Implement zero-downtime deployment strategies (Blue/Green, Canary, rolling)
• Standardize branching and release models to support parallel development and fast, safe releases
• Create reusable pipeline templates and deployment patterns that teams can adopt easily
• Drive consistent, repeatable deployment processes across services and environments
• Your goal is to make deployments boring, predictable, and safe
• Define and maintain Infrastructure-as-Code using Terraform for Azure resources
• Partner with the Infrastructure team to ensure networking, identity, and foundational services meet application platform needs
• Own application configuration strategy using Azure App Configuration and Key Vault
• Eliminate configuration drift across Dev, Test, Staging, and Production
• Ensure environment parity to reduce release risk
• Design for regional failover and high availability at the application layer
• Implement and tune monitoring using Azure Monitor and Application Insights
• Establish actionable alerting that reduces noise and improves signal
• Lead root cause analysis (RCA) for platform and deployment-related incidents
• Continuously improve resilience, performance, and recovery processes
• Create self-service templates, documentation, and golden paths for teams
• Coach teams on deployment patterns, observability, and cloud-native practices
• Act as a bridge between Software Engineering and Infrastructure teams
• Help teams design systems that are deployable, scalable, and cost-efficient
• Build cost awareness into deployment patterns and architectural standards
• Optimize AKS, serverless, and messaging usage for performance per dollar
• Partner with leadership to monitor and manage cloud spend
• Prevent waste through right-sizing, lifecycle policies, and automation

Requirements:

• Experience with Azure Cloud Application Platform
• Knowledge of multi-region deployment patterns across Azure regions for high availability and resilience
• Experience with Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) for core application workloads
• Experience with Azure Functions for event-driven and serverless components
• Knowledge of Azure Service Bus for asynchronous messaging and decoupled architectures
• Experience with Azure API Management (APIM) for secure and scalable API exposure
• Experience with Azure Front Door for global routing, performance optimization, and failover
• Experience with Azure DevOps (ADO) and GitOps principles
• Ability to design advanced CI/CD pipelines with automated testing, security gates, and approval workflows
• Experience implementing zero-downtime deployment strategies (Blue/Green, Canary, rolling)
• Ability to standardize branching and release models to support parallel development and fast, safe releases
• Experience creating reusable pipeline templates and deployment patterns
• Ability to drive consistent, repeatable deployment processes across services and environments
• Experience defining and maintaining Infrastructure-as-Code using Terraform for Azure resources
• Ability to partner with the Infrastructure team to ensure networking, identity, and foundational services meet application platform needs
• Experience owning application configuration strategy using Azure App Configuration and Key Vault
• Ability to eliminate configuration drift across Dev, Test, Staging, and Production
• Experience designing for regional failover and high availability at the application layer
• Experience implementing and tuning monitoring using Azure Monitor and Application Insights
• Ability to establish actionable alerting that reduces noise and improves signal
• Experience leading root cause analysis (RCA) for platform and deployment-related incidents
• Ability to continuously improve resilience, performance, and recovery processes
• Experience creating self-service templates, documentation, and golden paths for teams
• Ability to coach teams on deployment patterns, observability, and cloud-native practices
• Experience acting as a bridge between Software Engineering and Infrastructure teams
• Ability to help teams design systems that are deployable, scalable, and cost-efficient
• Experience building cost awareness into deployment patterns and architectural standards
• Ability to optimize AKS, serverless, and messaging usage for performance per dollar
• Experience partnering with leadership to monitor and manage cloud spend
• Ability to prevent waste through right-sizing, lifecycle policies, and automation