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Sprocket Sports · 4 weeks ago

Azure Cloud & DevOps Engineer

Chicago, IL

Full-time

Onsite

Mid Level

3+ years exp

Sprocket Sports is a fast-growing technology company based in Chicago, specializing in youth sports management software. They are seeking an Azure Cloud & DevOps Engineer to manage and optimize their cloud infrastructure, ensuring high performance, reliability, and security while collaborating with software engineers and product managers.

Information TechnologySaaSSports

Hiring Manager

Brett Baker

Responsibilities

Manage, provision, and maintain our complete suite of Azure resources (e.g., App Services, Azure Functions, AKS, VMs)

Proactively manage and reduce cloud costs by identifying and implementing efficiencies in resource utilization and recommending right-sizing strategies

Ensure security best practices are implemented across all Azure services, including network segmentation, access control (IAM), and patching

Ongoing monitoring of application and system performance using Azure and DataDog to detect and diagnose issues before they impact users

Review system logs, metrics, and tracing data to identify areas of concern, bottlenecks, and opportunities for performance tuning

Lead efforts to conduct load testing and performance testing on the system

Review and optimize SQL performance by analyzing query plans, identifying slow-running queries, and recommending improvements (indexing, schema changes, stored procedures)

Manage and monitor our Azure SQL Database resources for optimal health and throughput

Participate in on-call rotation to provide 24/7 support for critical infrastructure incidents and drive root cause analysis (RCA)

Implement Infrastructure-as-Code (ARM, Bicep, or Terraform) to maintain consistent, auditable deployments

Work closely with the development team to automate and streamline deployment pipelines (CI/CD) using Azure DevOps, ensuring fast and reliable releases

Implement and manage configuration for applications and infrastructure