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Senior DevOps Engineer, Applications

WME

full-remoteseniorpermanentdevopsbackend Anywhere in the World 69 days ago via WWR

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Tags

AzureTerraformKubernetesHelmCI/CDGitHub ActionsAzure DevOpsPostgreSQLObservabilityOpenTelemetry

About the role

Role Overview

Senior DevOps Engineer (Applications) at WME. You’ll design and operate cloud infrastructure and take end-to-end ownership of infrastructure and reliability, including provisioning, Kubernetes operations, CI/CD improvements, and observability. The team is migrating from a legacy system, so you’ll support both the new platform and the transition.

Responsibilities

  • Own and evolve Azure infrastructure using Terraform (networking, compute, managed services, secrets)
  • Manage Kubernetes clusters and Helm-based deployments for distributed microservices
  • Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions / Azure DevOps) for fast, safe, automated deployments
  • Define and improve observability across services: metrics, logging, alerting, and tracing
  • Lead incident response: drive resolution, write postmortems, and ensure reliability improvements
  • Manage PostgreSQL at scale: backups, replication, failover, migrations, and query performance
  • Collaborate with engineers on local development and deployment workflows
  • Enforce security best practices: secrets management, network policies, access controls, vulnerability scanning

Example Problems

  • Designing Azure infrastructure for gRPC microservices and a Next.js web app
  • Adding observability for service health, latency, and failure modes in a distributed system
  • Improving CI/CD and deployment automation
  • Supporting migration from legacy .NET/MSSQL to a modern cloud-native stack
  • Building developer tooling to reduce friction

Requirements

  • DevOps / platform engineering experience, typically 5+ years
  • Strong hands-on experience with Azure (AKS, Azure AD, managed databases, blob storage, networking)
  • Terraform experience managing infrastructure as code at scale
  • Kubernetes and Helm managing production workloads
  • CI/CD pipeline experience with GitHub Actions and/or Azure DevOps
  • PostgreSQL operational management, migrations, and performance tuning
  • Observability experience (e.g., Datadog, Grafana, OpenTelemetry)
  • Incident response experience and driving reliability improvements
  • Docker/container image management
  • Secrets management familiarity (e.g., Azure Key Vault, Vault)
  • Comfortable working while systems and processes are still evolving

Nice to Have / Context

  • Greenfield/platform-building mindset and opinions on how teams should ship software

About WME

WME builds internal platforms for one of the world’s leading entertainment companies. The work focuses on enabling teams to manage relationships, deals, and opportunities while keeping systems fast, available, and observable through cloud-native engineering.

Scraped 7/16/2026