Sphera · 1 week ago
Lead DevOps Engineer - ARA
United States
Full-time
Remote
Lead/StaffSphera is a leading global provider of enterprise software and services focused on environmental, health, safety, and sustainability. The Lead DevOps Engineer will support application infrastructure, optimize cloud environments, and ensure operational excellence while collaborating with engineering teams to solve complex problems.
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Responsibilities
Support application infrastructure to ensure platform is optimized for performance and reliability
Build and maintain supporting infrastructure for cloud environments and applications
Use a wide range of Azure resources to implement scalable, reliable and cost-efficient services
Work side by side with your engineers, guiding critical projects, using your subject matter expertise to solve complex problems
Perform and automate system administration services including installation, configuration, maintenance, and disaster recovery
Identify system level issues related to OS configuration and virtual hardware bottlenecks
Automation, auditing, and other tooling for security, compliance, and resource usage - Monitor and improve processes for all deployments
Take ownership of operational excellence to establish and maintain business focused KPI’s. Use these metrics not only as a basis for positive transformation, but also as a visible representation of your team’s success
Maintain and take ownership of your tasks each sprint ensuring time worked is logged and details are added
Qualification
Required
Excellent communication and collaboration skills
Ability to communicate effectively with multiple disciplines
Strong analytical skills with the ability to drive reliability improvements
Proven success managing and optimizing CI/CD for an Azure-based SaaS application
Hands-on-experience with common DevOps tools, including Azure DevOps
Strong scripting skills with at least PowerShell or Bash
Experience with configuration management tools like Terraform
Working knowledge of version control/source code management tools
Experience working in an agile software development life cycle
Working knowledge of databases including SQL and NoSQL
Strong knowledge of web server configuration and management like IIS or Tomcat
Working knowledge of local and wide area networking and associated technologies, e.g. switches, routers, firewalls, VPNs
Strong understanding of security principles
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or similar area of study
Experience working in a technical fast paced environment with high demand and high standards
Ability to assimilate information quickly under pressure
Strong planning skills to ensure business expectations are met and projects are delivered on time
Preferred
Cloud-based networking (VNETs, NSGs, Route Tables, Hub/Spoke based architecture, Private Endpoints, etc)
Strong understanding of CI/CD (YAML and Classic Pipelines)
PaaS (Web Apps, Function Apps, Storage Accounts, Key Vaults, Azure Redis Cache, Azure Service Bus, API Management, Azure Data Factory, Azure Databricks)
Monitoring (New Relic, LogEntries, Rapid7, Azure Monitoring, etc)
Some experience with Containers/Docker either for a microservice based architecture or Service Orientated etc
Git, ARM, Terraform, Ansible, Azure CLI or similar
JavaScript, React, C#, Java, PowerShell, Bash or similar
Company
Sphera
Sphera creates a safer, more sustainable and productive world.
Founded in 2013
1001-5000 employees
H1B Sponsorship
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2025 (3)
2023 (3)
2022 (5)
2021 (2)
2020 (10)
Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
$24.27MKey Investors
YttriumEQT VenturesSenovo
2022-09-13Acquired
2017-04-26Series B· $14.73M
2016-02-02Series A· $6M
Leadership Team
David Schur
Chief Technology Officer
James Pieper
Chief Financial Officer
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