Senior DevOps Engineer, Applications
WME Group · Orange County, CA · 2 wk ago
Engineering$131k/yrFull-time
What You'll Do
- Own and evolve Azure infrastructure using Terraform — networking, compute, managed services, and secrets
- Manage Kubernetes clusters and Helm-based deployments for a distributed microservices platform
- Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions / Azure DevOps) that keep deployments fast and safe
- Define and improve observability: metrics, logging, alerting, and tracing across services
- Lead incident response — drive resolution, write postmortems, and follow through on reliability improvements
- Manage PostgreSQL infrastructure: backups, replication, failover, and query performance
- Collaborate closely with engineers to improve local development environments and deployment workflows
- Enforce security best practices: secrets management, network policies, access controls, and vulnerability scanning
What We're Looking For
- Solid DevOps or platform engineering experience, typically 5+ years
- Strong hands-on experience with Azure (AKS, Azure AD, managed databases, blob storage, networking)
- Terraform experience — writing, organizing, and maintaining infrastructure as code at scale
- Kubernetes and Helm experience managing production workloads
- Experience building and operating CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, or similar)
- PostgreSQL experience — operational management, migrations, and performance tuning
- Solid understanding of observability tooling (Datadog, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, or equivalent)
- Experience with incident response and driving reliability improvements from postmortems
- Docker and container image management experience
- Familiarity with secrets management tools (Azure Key Vault, Vault, or equivalent)
- Comfortable working in environments where systems and processes are still evolving
Benefits
The company strives to provide locally competitive rewards packages, which include base rate along with, as applicable, short- and long-term incentives, growth and developmental opportunities, and robust benefits, such as health care, retirement, vacation and other paid time off, and additional offerings.
Pay
Hiring Rate Minimum $131,250 annually (minimum will not fall below the applicable state/local minimum salary thresholds)
Hiring Rate Maximum $175,000 annually
Schedule
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Qualifications
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Skills
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Company Information
WME is an equal opportunity employer and encourages applications from qualified and eligible candidates regardless of sex, race, disability, age, sexual orientation, or religion or belief.