Part-Time DevOps Engineer

Junior-to-Mid-Level Azure DevOps Engineer

Experience: 2–5 years

Employment Type: Part-Time

Job Summary

We are seeking a motivated Azure DevOps Engineer to manage, secure, monitor, and optimize our Azure infrastructure. The candidate should have hands-on Azure experience, good networking and security knowledge, and the ability to automate infrastructure, implement monitoring, and recommend improvements in scalability, governance, and cost efficiency.

Key Responsibilities

• Azure Infrastructure: Provision, manage, and optimize Azure resources across development, QA, staging, and production environments.
• Security & Governance: Identify infrastructure security risks and recommend best practices. Implement approved Azure security controls and governance policies in alignment with organizational IT policies.
• Networking & Application Delivery: Configure and troubleshoot Azure networking, including VNets, NSGs, DNS, private endpoints, Azure Front Door, and WAF.
• Monitoring & Observability: Configure Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, Application Insights, dashboards, and alerts to monitor resource health, performance, and availability.
• Scalability & Reliability: Understand when to scale up versus scale out, configure autoscaling where appropriate, and recommend improvements to availability and performance.
• Automation & CI/CD: Use Terraform, Bicep, or ARM templates and Azure DevOps or GitHub Actions to automate infrastructure provisioning and deployments.
• Cost & Documentation: Monitor Azure spending, identify optimization opportunities, and maintain infrastructure documentation and operational procedures.

Required Qualifications

• 2–5 years of experience in DevOps, cloud infrastructure, or systems administration, with practical Azure experience.
• Knowledge of Azure networking, infrastructure security, governance, and monitoring.
• Familiarity with Azure Front Door, WAF, Azure Policy, Azure Monitor, and Log Analytics.
• Basic hands-on experience with Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD pipelines, and scripting using PowerShell, Python, or Azure CLI.
• Understanding of cloud scalability, high availability, troubleshooting, and cost optimization.
• Strong problem-solving skills and willingness to learn and recommend improvements.

Preferred

Azure certifications such as AZ-104, AZ-500, or AZ-700, or equivalent practical knowledge.

Success Expectations

Maintain reliable and secure Azure infrastructure, improve monitoring and governance, automate routine operations, and proactively recommend improvements while following established organizational policies.

Pay: $55.00 - $70.00 per hour

Expected hours: 10.0 – 20.0 per week

Ability to Commute:

• Kansas City, MO 64120 (Preferred)

Work Location: In person