Senior DevOps Engineer

Sr. DevOps Engineer

WHAT WE ARE LOOKING FOR

Own the function. Shape the roadmap. Help build what comes next.

Savance is looking for a hands-on Senior DevOps Engineer to take end-to-end ownership of our Azure infrastructure, deployment processes, automation, and operational reliability. You will help decide what needs to improve, establish the plan, and carry it through—from identifying a risk to implementing and documenting a lasting solution.

Deep, hands-on experience owning production Microsoft Azure environments is required. Our Windows-based software and hybrid environments need someone who understands Azure administration, Windows Server, IIS, SQL Server, and the practical realities of keeping customer-facing systems running reliably.

You will partner directly with leadership, development, support, and implementation to turn shared DevOps responsibilities into a clear, consistent function. You will have room to recommend tools, challenge existing processes thoughtfully, and connect technical decisions to customer needs and company goals

WHY THIS ROLE AT SAVANCE

• Meaningful ownership and visible impact. Your work will directly influence how we deploy software, protect customer environments, support our team, and prepare for growth.
• A close-knit team where relationships matter. We value people who share knowledge, communicate openly, help across departments, and take pride in each other’s success.
• Access to the people making decisions. Work closely with leadership to explain trade-offs, propose improvements, and help set priorities.
• An opportunity to build a department. As Savance grows, our intent is to build a DevOps department around this role. Establish the standards and documentation today, then help define future staffing needs and mentor teammates as the function expands.

ABOUT SAVANCE

Savance is a fast-paced, dynamic, challenging, and demanding environment; and also a fun and rewarding place to work. We thrive as a team and are always looking for the people who are the right fit and have the right attitude to bring even greater success and camaraderie to the table. To excel at Savance, you must love to be challenged, seek out opportunities to develop your skills, be confident yet humble, and be able to learn from your mistakes. We thrive working alongside smart, independent, and self-motivated people who get along well with others. If you have a can-do attitude and seek a challenging, rewarding position with a great team, Savance is the place for you!

WHAT YOU WILL OWN

• The DevOps roadmap and execution. Assess the current environment, identify gaps and dependencies, prioritize work with leadership, and take initiatives through implementation, validation, documentation, and follow-up. Make progress, risks, and decisions visible without needing repeated prompting.
• Azure infrastructure across production, staging, testing, and development. Manage subscriptions, resource groups, networking, virtual machines, Web Apps, Azure Front Door, load balancing, storage, secrets, and access. Improve availability, performance, scalability, and cost.
• Windows and hybrid operations. Support Windows application servers, IIS, Windows development/test workstations, and SQL Server environments, including Linux-hosted SQL Server. Partner with development on modernization and migrations, including the path from SQL Server to Azure SQL.
• Repeatable software delivery. Build and improve Azure DevOps CI/CD pipelines using Git and YAML. Automate infrastructure provisioning, configuration, testing, application deployments, and rollback procedures with infrastructure-as-code and scripting.
• AI and automation that improve day-to-day work. Identify recurring manual tasks and use automation and AI-assisted tools to accelerate scripting, troubleshooting, log analysis, documentation, and pipeline development. Validate generated outputs, protect sensitive information, and measure the improvements in time, consistency, or reliability.
• Monitoring, incident response, and recovery. Establish actionable alerts, useful logs and metrics, runbooks, backup and restore practices, and recovery procedures. Lead infrastructure troubleshooting, communicate clearly during incidents, and address root causes to reduce repeat issues.
• Security and compliance operations. Manage Entra ID, role-based access, Key Vault, secure employee and contractor access, patching, and onboarding/offboarding. Maintain evidence an…