Senior DevOps Engineer

About the role

The Technical Product Manager serves as the primary bridge between business and technology teams, facilitating clear communication and decision-making in order to leverage customer insights and feedback to continuously improve Advocate Central's capabilities.

Responsibilities

• Lead the end-to-end release lifecycle for Java-based applications deployed on Azure
• Design, implement, and optimize CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions and Azure DevOps
• Build production-ready AI agents and agent-based automation to improve software delivery, release engineering, and operational workflows
• Build, provision, and manage Azure infrastructure with Terraform across services such as AKS, App Services, networking, storage, identity, and monitoring
• Establish and enforce release governance, change standards, deployment readiness criteria, and environment parity practices
• Implement and support deployment strategies including blue/green, canary, and rolling releases
• Improve release quality, speed, resilience, and compliance through automation, observability, rollback readiness, and continuous improvement
• Support secure software delivery practices across the SDLC, including release controls, testing standards, and operational readiness
• Design, build, and operationalize AI agents and AI-driven automation to improve release engineering, deployment support, monitoring, triage, and engineering productivity
• Identify and implement agent-based solutions that reduce manual effort, accelerate root cause analysis, and strengthen release reliability across the software delivery lifecycle
• Troubleshoot and resolve issues across application, pipeline, infrastructure, deployment, and automation layers
• Partner closely with development, SRE, security, and platform teams to support stable and efficient software delivery
• Develop reusable automation frameworks, release standards, and operational runbooks to improve consistency across teams

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree or 4+ years of software engineering experience
• 5+ years of experience in Release Engineering, DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering, or Software Engineering
• 3+ years of strong hands-on experience supporting Java applications, including Spring Boot, microservices, Maven, and/or Gradle
• 3+ years of strong CI/CD experience with GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, or similar pipeline platforms
• 2+ years of experience with Azure services, including AKS, networking, identity, monitoring, and storage
• 2 + years of proven experience using Terraform to manage infrastructure across the full lifecycle

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience supporting software delivery across the SDLC, including build, test, release, deployment, and operational support practices
• Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, Git workflows, artifact repositories, automated testing, and pipeline quality gates
• Strong troubleshooting skills across application, build, deployment, infrastructure, and automation domains
• Required experience designing, building, and implementing AI agents or agent-based automation for engineering, release, platform, or operational workflows
• Strong understanding of AI-assisted automation, prompt-driven tooling, agent orchestration, and practical enterprise use cases for AI in software delivery and operations
• Experience defining release processes, deployment controls, and operational best practices in enterprise environments
• Able to work cross-functionally and communicate effectively with engineering, operations, and security stakeholders

Benefits

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Pay and Schedule

Pay is based on several factors including but not limited to local labor markets, education, work experience, certifications, etc. In addition to your salary, we offer benefits such as, a comprehensive benefits package, incentive and recognition programs, equity stock purchase and 401k contribution (all benefits are subject to eligibility requirements). No matter where or when you begin a career with us, you'll find a far-reaching choice of benefits and incentives. The salary for this role will range from $91,700 to $163,700 annually based on full-time employment.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or 4+ years of software engineering experience
• 5+ years of experience in Release Engineering, DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering, or Software Engineering
• 3+ years of strong hands-on experience supporting Java applications, including Spring Boot, microservices, Maven, and/or Gradle
• 3+ years of strong CI/CD experience with GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, or similar pipeline platforms
• 2+ years of experience with Azure services, including AKS, networking, identity, monitoring, and storage
• 2 + years of proven experience using Terraform to manage infrastructure across the full lifecycle

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience supporting software delivery across the SDLC, including build, test, release, deployment, and operational support practices
• Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, Git workflows, artifact repositories, automated testing, and pipeline quality gates
• Strong troubleshooting skills across application, build, deployment, infrastructure, and automation domains
• Required experience designing, building, and implementing AI agents or agent-based automation for engineering, release, platform, or operational workflows
• Strong understanding of AI-assisted automation, prompt-driven tooling, agent orchestration, and practical enterprise use cases for AI in software delivery and operations
• Experience defining release processes, deployment controls, and operational best practices in enterprise environments
• Able to work cross-functionally and communicate effectively with engineering, operations, and security stakeholders