DevOps Engineer IV $100,000 - $130,000 Missoula/Hybrid/Remote

ELM Utility Services is hiring a DevOps Engineer IV to strengthen its engineering platforms and software delivery practices. The role leads cloud infrastructure, automation, CI/CD, observability, security, and reliability initiatives supporting enterprise software systems.

Responsibilities:

• Lead large-scale DevOps, cloud infrastructure, platform engineering, and automation initiatives from design through implementation and operational support
• Design, implement, and maintain reliable CI/CD pipelines that provide consistent, repeatable, and auditable software delivery across environments
• Develop and maintain Infrastructure as Code and automated configuration practices for cloud infrastructure and application environments
• Improve deployment strategies, release management, environment consistency, rollback capabilities, and production change safety
• Partner with software engineering teams to improve build, test, deployment, and development workflows while reducing unnecessary manual processes
• Design and support scalable Azure cloud infrastructure, including application hosting, networking, identity, secrets management, storage, databases, and supporting platform services
• Establish and improve observability practices using logging, metrics, distributed tracing, dashboards, and alerting
• Help define and implement standards for application and infrastructure monitoring, production readiness, operational health, and service reliability
• Support incident response, troubleshooting, root cause analysis, and continuous improvement activities for production systems
• Identify recurring operational issues and replace manual remediation with automation wherever practical
• Champion engineering practices around security, resiliency, scalability, performance, compliance, maintainability, and operational excellence
• Work closely with software engineers to design systems that are deployable, observable, supportable, and resilient in production
• Improve automated testing integration within CI/CD pipelines, including unit, integration, contract, security, and end-to-end testing where appropriate
• Support cloud identity and access management, service principals, managed identities, role-based access control, secrets management, and secure service-to-service communication
• Participate in technical design reviews and help ensure new systems include appropriate deployment, infrastructure, monitoring, security, and operational considerations
• Establish reusable engineering patterns, templates, tooling, and platform capabilities that can be adopted consistently across development teams
• Mentor engineers in DevOps, cloud, CI/CD, observability, reliability, and operational engineering practices
• Evaluate new technologies and tools and help guide pragmatic modernization of ELM's engineering platform
• Translate complex infrastructure and operational concepts into clear communication for technical and non-technical audiences
• Promote a culture of ownership, automation, accountability, collaboration, and continuous improvement

Requirements:

• Degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Technology, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience
• 7+ years of professional experience in DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering, Platform Engineering, Cloud Engineering, Software Engineering, or related disciplines
• Demonstrated experience designing and operating production cloud infrastructure and software delivery platforms
• Strong experience with Microsoft Azure and common Azure application and infrastructure services
• Advanced experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, or comparable platforms
• Strong experience with Infrastructure as Code technologies such as Bicep, Terraform, ARM templates, or equivalent tooling
• Strong understanding of Git-based development workflows, branching strategies, pull requests, artifact management, and automated release processes
• Experience with scripting and automation using PowerShell, Bash, Python, C#, or similar languages
• Strong understanding of cloud networking, identity, authentication, authorization, secrets management, and security principles
• Experience with containerization technologies such as Docker and modern container hosting or orchestration platforms
• Strong experience with observability platforms and practices, including centralized logging, metrics, application performance monitoring, distributed tracing, dashboards, and alerting
• Experience troubleshooting distributed applications and production systems across application, infrastructure, networking, and database layers
• Working knowledge of relational databases and SQL Server
• Strong understanding of software architecture, distributed systems, APIs, asynchronous processing, resiliency, scalability, and performance
• Experience supporting production systems and participating in incident response and root cause analysis
• Experience working in Agile/Scrum product delivery environments
• Excellent communication, collaboration, and organizational skills
• Strong analytical thinking and problem-solving abilities
• Ability to influence technical direction and engineering practices without direct authority
• Demonstrated ability to identify systemic problems and implement solutions that improve engineering productivity and reliability across multiple teams
• Master's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Technology, or related field
• Deep experience with Azure DevOps, including Repos, Pipelines, service connections, environments, variable management, permissions, and deployment controls
• Experience with Azure Entra ID, managed identities, RBAC, workload identity federation, and enterprise identity management
• Experience with Azure App Service, Functions, Container Apps, SQL Database, Storage Accounts, Key Vault, App Configuration, Service Bus, and related Azure services
• Experience with Datadog, Azure Monitor, Application Insights, or comparable observability platforms
• Experience implementing automated security scanning, dependency scanning, static analysis, infrastructure validation, and other DevSecOps practices within delivery pipelines
• Experience defining and measuring engineering reliability and delivery metrics such as deployment frequency, change failure rate, lead time, recovery time, service-level indicators, and service-level objectives
• Experience designing standardized deployment pipelines and reusable CI/CD templates across multiple applications and teams
• Experience implementing blue/green, canary, staged, or other controlled deployment strategies
• Experience supporting .NET and C# application environments
• Familiarity with SQL Server performance, deployment, and operational practices
• Experience operating within regulated, audited, or compliance-driven environments
• Experience leading cloud modernization, platform engineering, or DevOps transformation initiatives