3 days ago
Remote, CanadaStaff+
Responsibilities
- Define and enforce DevOps architecture, reference architectures, Terraform standards, tagging conventions, environment topology, and infrastructure design review processes.
- Provide technical direction, mentorship, architecture guidance, hiring support, and cross-team decision leadership without relying on formal management authority.
- Own platform reliability outcomes, SLOs, error budgets, KPIs, on-call health, major incident escalation, postmortems, observability, runbooks, and automated remediation.
- Drive cloud cost optimization, resource right-sizing, capacity planning, tagging discipline, resource ownership, and multi-region infrastructure planning with FinOps and engineering teams.
- Design, build, and maintain shared Azure platform services and onboard product teams to self-service platform patterns.
- Author reusable Terraform modules, manage state and plans, and deliver infrastructure changes through controlled environments.
- Build and maintain Azure DevOps CI/CD pipelines for infrastructure, application deployments, and Databricks assets.
- Operate Azure networking, edge services, identity and access, API Management, Service Bus, storage, monitoring, and related platform services.
- Enable MLOps through Azure AI Foundry and Databricks deployment automation, model and AI-service pipelines, guardrails, content safety, private networking, and identity controls.
Requirements
- 8+ years of experience in DevOps, cloud infrastructure, or platform engineering, including 3+ years as a technical lead, staff engineer, or mentor to senior engineers.
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a similar field, or equivalent practical experience.
- Demonstrated ownership of cloud architecture decisions at organization scale and the ability to influence teams without direct management authority.
- Deep hands-on Azure App Service, Web Apps, Function Apps, Container Apps, networking, Application Gateway, WAF, Traffic Manager, Service Bus, API Management, Entra ID, Azure AD B2C, and supporting Azure services experience.
- Strong Terraform experience including reusable modules, remote state, workspaces, provider and version pinning, plan and apply review, imports, drift remediation, and infrastructure-only change paths.
- Strong Azure DevOps CI/CD experience with YAML and classic pipelines, multi-stage deployments, environments, approvals, service connections, and variable and secret management.
- Strong PowerShell and/or Bash scripting skills, Azure CLI fluency, and solid Git, branching, pull request, and code review practices.
- Strong understanding of least privilege, secrets management, network isolation, certificate lifecycle, and compliance-driven controls, plus working knowledge of SQL and NoSQL databases.
- Experience with Azure AI Foundry, Azure OpenAI, Databricks administration, Unity Catalog, Databricks Asset Bundles, or the Databricks Terraform provider is preferred.
- Preferred experience includes MLOps or data engineering support, FinOps, acquisition integration, B2C custom policy XML, Docker, monitoring and security tools, relevant Azure certifications, and familiarity with C#, Java, Python, JavaScript, and React.
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About Sphera
Sphera builds enterprise software and data solutions for EHS, sustainability, operational risk, and product stewardship, delivered via its SpheraCloud SaaS platform and consulting services. Its tools help companies manage compliance, safety, emissions, and supply‑chain impacts across operations and products. Founded in 2016, headquartered in Chicago, and owned by Blackstone, it serves customers across energy, manufacturing, chemicals, and other regulated industries.