Lead DevOps Engineer

🕒 September 8

🏄 California – Remote

🏄 California – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

⛑ DevOps & Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)

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Sphera

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1001 - 5000 employees

Founded 1989

💼 Consulting

🏥 Healthcare

📦 Logistics

Consulting • Healthcare • Logistics

Sphera is a leading provider of enterprise sustainability management software, data, and consulting services. It offers solutions that enable organizations in sectors like Chemicals, Oil & Gas, Industrials, and Financial Services to manage their sustainability goals effectively. Sphera's offerings include the SpheraCloud platform, which focuses on Environment, Health, Safety & Sustainability (EHS&S) management, operational compliance, and risk management. The company's software and consulting services are designed to help organizations improve their safety, mitigate risks, reduce costs, and build resilience. By providing an integrated 360-degree view of sustainability and performance management, Sphera assists companies in meeting regulatory reporting requirements and achieving their sustainability objectives.

📋 Description

• Support multiple SaaS environments as part of a global team • Represent DevOps in architecture and planning forums and surface risks and tradeoffs • Define and enforce DevOps architecture and standards across the organization • Provide technical guidance and mentorship to DevOps leads and senior engineers • Advise engineering and product leadership on designs and infrastructure constraints • Drive cross-team consensus, make decisions when consensus is unavailable, and own outcomes • Identify capability gaps and create plans to address them • Support hiring through technical interviews and define level expectations • Own reliability outcomes, SLOs, error budgets, and business-focused KPIs for platform services • Manage and improve the DevOps on-call rotation and alerting • Act as senior technical escalation point for major platform incidents • Lead incident resolution, stakeholder communication, and organized response • Own blameless postmortems, root-cause analysis, and action-item follow-through • Improve detection and recovery through observability, runbooks, and automated remediation • Partner with FinOps on cost optimization, right-sizing, reservations, savings plans, tagging, and resource cleanup • Lead capacity planning across environments and regions • Design, build, and maintain shared Azure platform services • Author reusable Terraform modules, manage state, review plans, and safely deploy infrastructure changes • Onboard teams to platform services and document self-service patterns • Build and maintain Azure DevOps CI/CD pipelines for infrastructure, applications, and Databricks assets • Manage Application Gateway, WAF, Traffic Manager, routing, TLS, and edge configuration • Manage Entra ID, OAuth 2.0, OIDC, service principals, managed identities, and RBAC • Configure and maintain Azure AD B2C and support product integrations • Operate API Management and Azure Service Bus through Terraform and pipelines • Automate security, compliance, and resource-usage controls • Enable MLOps through Azure AI Foundry, Databricks, AI guardrails, content safety, private networking, identity, and repeatable deployment pipelines • Set reference architecture and cost models for AI and data workloads

🎯 Requirements

• 8+ years in DevOps, cloud infrastructure, or platform engineering • 3+ years as a technical lead, staff engineer, or mentor to senior engineers • Demonstrated ownership of cloud architecture decisions at organization scale • Track record of influencing teams not directly managed and raising engineers' technical level • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or similar field, or equivalent practical experience • Excellent communication skills • Strong mentoring and coaching skills • Sound judgment under pressure and calm ownership during incidents and escalations • Ability to build trust across DevOps, engineering, product, and security • Strong planning skills • Deep hands-on experience with Azure Web Apps/App Service, Azure Function Apps, and Azure Container Apps • Experience with deployment slots, scaling rules, VNet integration, and configuration management • Experience with Application Gateway, WAF, rewrite rules, path-based routing, listeners, backend pools, health probes, custom WAF rules, exclusions, TLS, and certificate management • Experience with Traffic Manager profiles and routing methods • Knowledge of VNets, subnets, NSGs, route tables, hub-and-spoke architecture, Private Endpoints, and Private DNS • Experience with Azure Service Bus namespaces, queues, topics, subscriptions, filters, rules, shared access policies, and permissions • Experience with API Management configuration and policy authoring • Experience with Entra ID app registrations, API permissions, service principals, managed identities, OAuth 2.0, OIDC, token and claims configuration, and Azure RBAC • Hands-on Azure AD B2C custom policies, SSO XML policies, SAML, and OIDC federation • Knowledge of Storage Accounts, Key Vault, Azure Cache for Redis, Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, and Application Insights • Full working proficiency with Terraform, including reusable modules, remote state, workspaces, provider/version pinning, plan/apply review, import, and drift remediation • Strong Azure DevOps CI/CD experience with YAML pipelines, multi-stage deployments, environments, approvals, service connections, and variable/secret management • Strong PowerShell and/or Bash scripting skills • Fluency with Azure CLI • Solid Git and source-control practice • Strong understanding of security principles, least privilege, secrets management, network isolation, certificate lifecycle, and compliance controls • Working knowledge of SQL and NoSQL databases

🏖️ Benefits

• Equal Opportunity Employer • Inclusive environment committed to diversity • Global team environment

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