ELM Utility Services · 4 hours ago
DevOps Engineer ($60,000 - $100,000 Annually DOE)
Missoula, MT
Full-time
Hybrid
Entry, Mid Level
$60K/yr - $100K/yr
1+ years expELM Utility Services is a nationwide company with over 1300 employees, currently seeking a DevOps Engineer in the Missoula, Montana area. The role focuses on strengthening the build, shipping, and operational processes in Azure, emphasizing CI/CD, infrastructure automation, observability, reliability, and secure operations.
ManufacturingPublic SafetyService Industry
Responsibilities
Design, build, and maintain Azure DevOps Pipelines for applications and data services (build/test/release)
Standardize pipeline templates, approvals, environments, and promotion strategies across teams
Improve release reliability: versioning, automated checks, rollback strategies, and deployment validation
Support repo workflows in Azure DevOps (branch policies, PR checks, code quality gates)
Improve platform consistency: reusable modules, baseline policies, and repeatable patterns
Own Datadog observability practices across services: dashboards, monitors, alert routing, SLOs, log/trace/metric strategy
Improve troubleshooting and operational readiness: runbooks, incident response workflows, post-incident improvements
Drive performance and reliability improvements in partnership with engineering (capacity signals, latency/error budgets)
Implement secure CI/CD practices: secret management, least privilege service principals, pipeline permissions, artifact integrity
Support vulnerability management in the delivery pipeline (dependency scanning, code scanning, baseline hardening)
Help enforce environment controls: approvals, change tracking, auditability, and access standards
Create self-service tooling and standards that make teams faster (templates, docs, golden paths)
Partner with engineers to improve build times, test stability, deployment confidence, and operational maturity
Support internal platform documentation (Azure DevOps Wiki/runbooks) and knowledge sharing
Qualification
Required
1–5+ years in DevOps, SRE, platform engineering, or systems engineering with strong software delivery ownership
Experience supporting production systems with on-call/incident response expectations (formal or informal)
Preferred
Cloud fundamentals (compute, networking, identity, logging/monitoring patterns, resource governance)
Azure DevOps (Pipelines, Repos, Boards, Artifacts; environment approvals; service connections)
Datadog (monitors, dashboards, logs, APM/tracing, alert routing, tagging strategy)
CI/CD best practices: build/test automation, deployment strategies, environment promotion, rollback patterns
Container workflows (Docker, ACR, containerized deployments)
Azure security tooling familiarity (Defender for Cloud concepts, key management, conditional access patterns)
Database delivery patterns (migrations, DACPACs, schema change controls)
Familiarity with GitHub Advanced Security or similar scanning tools (if applicable)
Benefits
Voluntary Medical, Dental, Vision, Life, Disability, FSA, H.S.A., and Teladoc.
Company Paid Life Insurance up to $50,000
Paid-Time Off (PTO) for vacation and sick time purposes
6 Paid Holidays
401(k) plan
Bonuses for milestone anniversaries
Annual reviews with opportunity for pay increases
Competitive pay based on experience
Long history of stable employment and promoting from within
Opportunity to lead and modernize production systems with meaningful operational impact
Company
ELM Utility Services
ELM Utility Services specializing in public utility locating helping utilities and contractors find and mark underground infrastructure.
1001-5000 employees
Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
unknownKey Investors
Tiger Infrastructure Partners
2025-11-18Private Equity
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