Senior DevOps Engineer (Remote - for OutsideHire)

Role Overview

Senior DevOps Engineer responsible for building and maintaining cloud infrastructure, deployment pipelines, monitoring systems, and operational excellence practices for the FanFair platform across development and production.

Responsibilities

• Infrastructure as Code: Design and implement Azure infrastructure using ARM templates, Terraform, or Bicep.
• CI/CD Pipeline Management: Build and maintain automated deployment pipelines using Azure DevOps.
• Environment Management: Provision and manage development, staging, and production environments with consistent configurations.
• Security & Compliance: Implement infrastructure security controls for PCI-DSS compliance and data protection.
• Monitoring & Alerting: Set up monitoring/logging/alerting using Azure Monitor and Application Insights.
• Performance Monitoring: Track and optimize performance for high-throughput payment processing.
• Disaster Recovery: Implement backup, recovery, and business continuity procedures.
• Operational Excellence: Create runbooks, incident response procedures, and system health dashboards.

What You Will Not Do

• Write application business logic or feature implementation code
• Make architecture decisions without Chief Architect consultation
• Handle product management or stakeholder communication responsibilities
• Perform manual testing or QA activities

Success Metrics (KPIs)

• Infrastructure availability: > 99.9% uptime for production systems
• Deployment success rate: > 98% successful deployments

Requirements / Notes

• Senior-level ownership of DevOps practices across the full lifecycle (dev → prod) is implied by the responsibilities and KPIs.