Lead Azure DevOps Engineer

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☕ Washington – Remote

☕ Washington – Remote

💵 $175k - $215k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

⛑ DevOps & Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)

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IREN

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201 - 500 employees

🤖 Artificial Intelligence

🤝 B2B

⚡ Energy

Artificial Intelligence • B2B • Energy

IREN is a provider of purpose-built, high-performance AI data centers and GPU cloud services across North America. IREN develops, owns and operates large, power-dense facilities designed for demanding AI training and inference workloads, offering turnkey data centers, colocations for customer hardware, and managed GPU cloud access. The company emphasizes vertical integration, 24/7 onsite support, and powering its facilities with 100% renewable energy (including RECs). IREN currently lists six North American locations (including Sweetwater, Childress, Oklahoma, Prince George, Mackenzie, and Canal Flats), with secured power capacity of about 5 GW, several hundred to thousands of MW per site in operational, under-construction, and in-development stages, and roughly 4,900 acres of secured land for AI infrastructure.

📋 Description

• Define and own the Azure / M365 platform architecture, Landing Zone design, governance model and DevOps standards for IREN. • Lead, mentor and develop other DevOps Engineers across IREN in Azure best practices, including work planning, code review, technical coaching and performance feedback. • Establish and enforce infrastructure-as-code standards, module libraries, branching and release strategies, and pipeline patterns across Azure DevOps and GitHub. • Own platform reliability by defining SLOs, monitoring and alerting standards, on-call practices and incident/problem management for platform services. • Design and implement identity, network and policy controls, including Entra ID, Conditional Access, Azure Policy, RBAC and private networking, in partnership with Cybersecurity and IT. • Lead security-by-design and compliance automation, ensuring pipelines and platform controls produce audit evidence for SOX and ISO 27001. • Drive platform roadmap priority and technical debt reduction, evaluating new Azure services, automation and AI-enabled operational tooling. • Serve as senior technical escalation for complex platform incidents, root-cause analysis and post-incident reviews. • Manage relationships with Microsoft and key vendors, including licensing, support engagements and architecture reviews. • Communicate platform status, risks and decisions clearly to IT leadership and cross-functional stakeholders.

🎯 Requirements

• 7+ years in DevOps, platform or cloud engineering, with at least 4 years designing and operating Microsoft Azure environments at enterprise scale. • Demonstrated experience leading or mentoring engineers and owning technical delivery for a team. • Expert-level infrastructure as code (Bicep and/or Terraform / OpenTofu) and CI/CD design in Azure DevOps and/or GitHub / GitLab Actions, including reusable module and pipeline libraries. • Deep knowledge of Entra ID, Azure networking, Azure Policy/Management Groups, Landing Zones and Azure security services (Defender for Cloud, Key Vault / OpenBAO, Sentinel). • Strong scripting and automation skills in PowerShell and Python, including Microsoft Graph and Azure REST APIs. • Proven experience operating platforms in regulated environments and producing audit evidence for SOX, ISO 27001 or equivalent frameworks. • Experience with observability (Azure Monitor, KQL), SRE practices, and security policy governance and administration. • Excellent communication skills with the ability to explain architecture and risk to both engineers and executives across time zones. • Microsoft certifications such as AZ-400, AZ-305 or AZ-500 are highly regarded; Terraform Associate is a plus. • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field (or equivalent experience). • Authorization to work in the United States, verified through E-Verify and Form I-9.

🏖️ Benefits

• Short-term and Long-term Incentive Programs • Medical, dental, and vision insurance coverage – 100% company paid for employees, 75% company paid coverage for dependents • Company-paid life and disability insurance • Voluntary life, critical illness, and accident coverage available • Health Savings Accounts (HSA) – when combined with the High-Deductible Health Plan • Employee Assistance Program and wellness resources • 401(k) retirement plan with company match • Financial wellness tools and resources • Paid Time Off (PTO) and paid holidays • Flexible work arrangements • Opportunities for advancement and internal mobility • Training and personal development opportunities • Company events and team-building activities • Equity programs • Annual performance incentives