Senior Azure DevOps Developer

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Physical Presence: In-Office | Tue – Thu; Flexible | Mon & Fri

Open to: Indianapolis, IN, or Boston, MA

Reports to: VP, Software Development

Work Authorization: CREA does not provide employment visa sponsorship. Candidates must be authorized to work in the United States without current or future sponsorship from CREA.

Position Summary:

We are seeking an experienced AVP / Senior Azure DevOps Developer with a minimum of 7 years of relevant professional experience; 10+ years is preferred. This hands-on leadership role combines Azure engineering, DevSecOps, infrastructure automation, full-stack software development, and Microsoft 365 integration. The successful candidate will help modernize applications, strengthen cloud operations, improve reliability, and establish scalable engineering practices.

Primary Responsibilities:

Azure Cloud Engineering & Operations

• Design, deploy, configure, and maintain secure, scalable Azure environments across development, test, and production.
• Support Azure services including App Service, Functions, Virtual Machines, Storage, Key Vault, Monitor, Log Analytics, Azure SQL Database, SQL Managed Instance, and private networking.
• Implement monitoring, alerting, logging, backup, disaster recovery, reliability, and operational support practices.
• Apply cloud governance, tagging, capacity planning, cost optimization, and platform standards.

DevOps, CI/CD & Infrastructure as Code

• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps and/or GitHub Actions for application and infrastructure releases.
• Automate infrastructure provisioning through Terraform and/or Azure Bicep using reusable, source-controlled modules.
• Automate configuration, deployments, testing, approvals, rollback, and release validation using YAML, PowerShell, Bash, or Python.
• Advance DevSecOps practices by integrating code quality, dependency, secret, and security controls into delivery pipelines.

Full-Stack Application Development

• Design, develop, test, and maintain responsive web applications using Angular, TypeScript, JavaScript, HTML, and CSS.
• Develop and support backend applications and services using PHP and Laravel.
• Create secure REST APIs, reusable services, background jobs, and integrations with enterprise systems.
• Troubleshoot across front-end, API, database, identity, network, and cloud hosting layers.

Microsoft 365 Add-ins & Integrations

• Develop and support Microsoft Office Add-ins, including Outlook, Excel, and Word Add-ins.
• Integrate applications with Microsoft 365, SharePoint Online, and Microsoft Graph API.
• Implement secure authentication using Microsoft Entra ID, OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect, single sign-on, managed identities, and RBAC.
• Use Power Automate or Power Apps when appropriate for low-code workflow and integration scenarios.

Additional Responsibilities:

Data, Database & Integration

• Develop and optimize solutions using Microsoft SQL Server, T-SQL, Azure SQL Database, and Azure SQL Managed Instance.
• Create and maintain database objects, data access patterns, migration scripts, interfaces, and system integrations.
• Collaborate with data and reporting teams on data quality, performance, secure connectivity, and integration requirements.

Security, Compliance & Reliability

• Apply secure coding, least privilege, secrets management, encryption, network segmentation, and identity-first design practices.
• Partner with cybersecurity and compliance teams on vulnerabilities, audit evidence, access controls, and remediation.
• Participate in incident response, root cause analysis, problem management, and continuous improvement.

Technical Leadership & Collaboration

• Provide hands-on technical leadership, architecture guidance, code reviews, engineering standards, and mentoring.
• Work with business, engineers, vendors, and business stakeholders within Agile delivery practices.
• Produce architecture diagrams, technical specifications, deployment runbooks, operating procedures, and troubleshooting guides.