About Convene Inc.
Convene, Inc. is a Tampa based, award-winning technology services organization with offices and resources throughout the US, Mexico, and India. We have successful, referenceable customers, competitive benefits, and high-growth opportunities.
Azure DevOps Engineer / Site Reliability Engineer (with Development Experience)
Overview
We are seeking an Azure DevOps Engineer with strong Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) experience and a solid background in software development. This role blends cloud automation, reliability engineering, CI/CD excellence, and hands-on coding to ensure scalable, secure, and highly available systems across Azure environments.
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and maintain Azure DevOps pipelines (YAML-based CI/CD) for application and infrastructure deployments.
- Implement SRE best practices including observability, incident response, postmortems, error budgets, and service-level objectives (SLOs).
- Develop automation tools, scripts, and services using C#, Python, PowerShell, or similar languages.
- Build and maintain IaC using Terraform, Bicep, or ARM templates.
- Manage and optimize Azure resources including AKS, App Services, Functions, Storage, Key Vault, API Management, and Azure SQL.
- Implement monitoring and alerting using Azure Monitor, Application Insights, Log Analytics, and Grafana/Prometheus (if applicable).
- Improve system reliability through performance tuning, capacity planning, chaos engineering, and resilience testing.
- Collaborate with development teams to ensure applications are designed for reliability, scalability, and cloud-native operation.
- Support containerization and orchestration using Docker and Kubernetes (AKS).
- Drive continuous improvement across deployment processes, release automation, and cloud governance.
- Participate in on-call rotations and lead incident response efforts when needed.
- Must be an open and apt communicator.
- Must adapt easily to being embedded in a fast-paced development team
Required Qualifications- 5+ years in Azure DevOps, SRE, or cloud engineering roles.
- Strong development experience in C#, Python, or PowerShell (must be able to build tools, not just scripts).
- Hands-on experience with Azure DevOps Repos, Pipelines, Artifacts, and Boards.
- Deep knowledge of Azure services, cloud architecture, and distributed systems.
- Strong experience with Kubernetes (AKS), containerization, and microservices.
- Proficiency with Terraform, Bicep, or ARM templates for IaC.
- Experience implementing monitoring, logging, tracing, and alerting frameworks.
- Solid understanding of SRE principles, SLIs/SLOs, error budgets, and reliability metrics.
- Experience with Git, branching strategies, and DevOps best practices.
Preferred Qualifications- Experience with Azure Landing Zones, cloud governance, and enterprise-scale architecture.
- Familiarity with GitHub Actions, Jenkins, or other CI/CD tools.
- Experience with chaos engineering tools (Gremlin, Chaos Mesh).
- Background supporting high-availability, mission-critical systems.
- Knowledge of security best practices: RBAC, managed identities, secrets management, and zero-trust principles.