Role Overview As a Senior DevOps Engineer, you'll design, build, and manage Azure-based cloud platforms that support secure, reliable application delivery. You'll lead CI/CD enablement, infrastructure automation, and observability efforts, while partnering across Technology teams to improve performance, reliability, and security as Cortland's technology footprint continues to grow. In this role, you'll play a key part in shaping platform standards and operational practices that enable teams to build, test, and deploy at scale.
Cloud Platform & Automation
- Design, deploy, and operate secure, scalable cloud infrastructure on Microsoft Azure supporting application and data platforms.
- Automate infrastructure provisioning and configuration using Infrastructure as Code (Terraform and Azure Bicep) to enable consistent, repeatable deployments.
- Continuously improve platform reliability, performance, and scalability through automation and optimization.
CI/CD Enablement & Developer Support
- Enable development teams through standardized CI/CD pipelines, reusable templates, and tooling support using GitHub and Azure DevOps.
- Partner with engineering teams to improve build, test, and deployment workflows while promoting DevOps best practices.
Monitoring, Reliability & Operations
- Build and support a centralized monitoring and observability platform covering application availability and performance, infrastructure and network health, alerting, and ServiceNow integrations.
- Participate in an on-call rotation and respond to incidents and outages, collaborating with application teams to diagnose and resolve complex production issues.
- Design and maintain high-availability architectures, backup strategies, and disaster recovery solutions to support business continuity.
Security, Governance & Collaboration
- Implement and enforce cloud security and governance best practices, including IAM/RBAC, Azure Policy, firewall rules, and secure network architectures.
- Collaborate closely with Software Engineering, Data Engineering, Data Analytics, and Technology Operations teams to deliver reliable, secure cloud platform services.
Qualifications Education & Experience
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related field preferred.
- 5+ years of experience in DevOps, Cloud Engineering, or Site Reliability Engineering, with deep expertise in Microsoft Azure.
- Proven experience designing, deploying, and operating production-grade Azure infrastructure.
- Microsoft Azure certifications (AZ-104, AZ-204, AZ-305, AZ-400) is preferred.
- Familiarity with Microsoft's Well-Architected Framework and Cloud Adoption Framework is preferred.
- Experience with AI-assisted development tools such as GitHub Copilot, Codex, or Claude Code is preferred.
Cloud Platform, Automation & CI/CD
- Extensive hands-on experience with Infrastructure as Code using Terraform and Azure Bicep.
- Proficiency in scripting and automation using PowerShell and Python.
- Experience with CI/CD platforms and tooling, including Git, GitHub, and Azure DevOps.
Security, Governance & Platform Operations
- Strong experience with Azure governance and security tools, including Azure Policy, Azure Privileged Identity Management (PIM), and Entra ID (Azure Active Directory).
- Experience with application and infrastructure monitoring tools such as Datadog, New Relic, Azure Monitor, Prometheus, Grafana, or similar platforms.
- Experience deploying and supporting Windows Server-based workloads, including Active Directory and Microsoft SQL Server.
Professional Skills
- Excellent problem solving and troubleshooting skills with the ability to resolve complex infrastructure and inter-related systems issues
- Strong communication and collaboration skills, with experience working across teams and providing platform support to multiple stakeholders
