DevOps Engineer (Azure Infrastructure & Automation)

District Partners has been engaged by a well-established trade association to identify a hands-on DevOps Engineer to help modernize infrastructure, expand automation capabilities, and support a growing cloud and infrastructure environment. The ideal candidate built their foundation in systems administration, infrastructure engineering, or network engineering before evolving into cloud automation and DevOps. This is an opportunity to join a lean technology team where engineers are trusted with broad ownership and meaningful influence across cloud, infrastructure, automation, and operational initiatives.

Why You'll Actually Care

Technology plays a strategic role within the organization, and the team is investing heavily in automation, cloud infrastructure, and operational maturity. This role was created to add engineering depth, improve scalability, and increase operational maturity across the technology organization.

Unlike larger organizations where responsibilities are highly specialized, this role offers exposure across cloud infrastructure, automation, networking, enterprise systems, and security initiatives. Team members are expected to wear multiple hats, collaborate across disciplines, and contribute wherever needed to support the broader technology organization.

This is a highly hands-on role where the successful candidate will contribute directly to engineering, administration, automation, troubleshooting, and operational support efforts.

The Basics

• Full-time, permanent opportunity
• Microsoft Azure environment
• Small, collaborative technology team
• Broad technical ownership across infrastructure, automation, and cloud operations
• High-visibility role with direct impact on infrastructure strategy and operational efficiency

What You'll Be Owning

• Expanding and improving cloud infrastructure within a Microsoft Azure environment
• Building, maintaining, and optimizing CI/CD pipelines and deployment processes
• Driving Infrastructure as Code initiatives utilizing Terraform and Ansible
• Creating scalable automation solutions that reduce manual effort and improve operational efficiency
• Supporting containerized workloads and modern platform technologies
• Contributing across systems, cloud, networking, and security-related initiatives
• Participating in infrastructure modernization, resiliency, disaster recovery, and business continuity efforts
• Serving as a key technical resource across cloud, infrastructure, automation, and operational initiatives

The Environment

This role is best suited for someone who enjoys solving infrastructure challenges through automation and is comfortable working across cloud, systems, networking, and operational initiatives.

Engineers are expected to be hands-on, collaborative, and comfortable operating across multiple technology domains. Candidates whose experience has been primarily focused on software development and deployment pipelines without significant infrastructure ownership may find the role less aligned with their background.

What You Bring To The Table

• 2-5 years of experience in DevOps, Infrastructure Engineering, Cloud Engineering, Systems Administration, or a related technical role
• Advanced PowerShell scripting and automation experience
• Strong hands-on experience administering Microsoft Azure environments
• Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform and/or Ansible
• Experience with containerization technologies including Docker and Kubernetes
• Strong understanding of enterprise infrastructure, networking, identity management, cloud operations, and systems administration principles
• Experience supporting Azure, Microsoft 365, Entra ID, Exchange Online, and related enterprise technologies
• Proven ability to troubleshoot complex technical issues across multiple platforms
• Ability to operate independently while contributing within a highly collaborative, hands-on technical environment

Preferred Qualifications

• Azure certifications such as AZ-104, AZ-305, or AZ-400
• Python scripting experience
• Experience supporting VDI and virtualization technologies
• Experience with infrastructure security, hardening, and vulnerability remediation initiatives
• Experience working within a small-to-medium sized organization where engineers maintain broad technical ownership

A Few Things Worth Knowing

• Compensation: $105,000 - $124,000, depending on experience
• Full-time direct hire opportunity
• Onsite five days per week during the first 90 days
• Eligible for a 3-day onsite / 2-day remote schedule following based on performance