ELM Utility Services, with a team of over 1300 employees nationwide, is offering a great opportunity for a a DevOps Engineer in the Sammamish, Washington area. This position can be offered as a remote position to the right candidate pending interview. As a DevOps Engineer you job will be to strengthen how we build, ship, and operate our systems in Azure. This role is hands-on and focused on engineering enablement: CI/CD, infrastructure automation, observability, reliability, and secure operations. We use Azure and Azure DevOps (Repos, Pipelines, Boards, Artifacts, Wiki, etc.) plus Datadog as our primary monitoring/observability platform. 

Our Total Rewards Package Includes:  

• Optional benefits like Medical, Dental, Vision, Life, Disability, FSA, H.S.A., and Teledoc. 

• Company Paid Life Insurance 

• Paid-Time Off (PTO) for vacation and sick time (Accrues up to 80 hours per full year and increases with years of service.)  

• 6 Paid Holidays

• 401(k) plan 

• Bonuses for milestone anniversaries 

• Competitive pay based on experience 

• Long history of stable employment and promoting from within 

• Opportunity to lead and modernize production systems with meaningful operational impact 

Roles & Responsibilities:  

• CI/CD & Release Engineering (core) 

• Design, build, and maintain Azure DevOps Pipelines for applications and data services (build/test/release) 

• Standardize pipeline templates, approvals, environments, and promotion strategies across teams 

• Improve release reliability: versioning, automated checks, rollback strategies, and deployment validation 

• Support repo workflows in Azure DevOps (branch policies, PR checks, code quality gates) 

• Improve platform consistency: reusable modules, baseline policies, and repeatable patterns 

• Observability & Reliability (core) 

• Own Datadog observability practices across services: dashboards, monitors, alert routing, SLOs, log/trace/metric strategy 

• Improve troubleshooting and operational readiness: runbooks, incident response workflows, post-incident improvements 

• Drive performance and reliability improvements in partnership with engineering (capacity signals, latency/error budgets) 

• Security & Compliance Enablement (core-to-growing) 

• Implement secure CI/CD practices: secret management, least privilege service principals, pipeline permissions, artifact integrity 

• Support vulnerability management in the delivery pipeline (dependency scanning, code scanning, baseline hardening) 

• Help enforce environment controls: approvals, change tracking, auditability, and access standards 

• Developer Enablement (core) 

• Create self-service tooling and standards that make teams faster (templates, docs, golden paths) 

• Partner with engineers to improve build times, test stability, deployment confidence, and operational maturity 

• Support internal platform documentation (Azure DevOps Wiki/runbooks) and knowledge sharing 

Qualifications:  

• 1–5+ years in DevOps, SRE, platform engineering, or systems engineering with strong software delivery ownership 

• Experience supporting production systems with on-call/incident response expectations (formal or informal) 

• Technical Skills (strongly preferred) 

• Cloud fundamentals (compute, networking, identity, logging/monitoring patterns, resource governance) 

• Azure DevOps (Pipelines, Repos, Boards, Artifacts; environment approvals; service connections) 

• Datadog (monitors, dashboards, logs, APM/tracing, alert routing, tagging strategy) 

• CI/CD best practices: build/test automation, deployment strategies, environment promotion, rollback patterns 

• Nice to have 

• Container workflows (Docker, ACR, containerized deployments) 

• Azure security tooling familiarity (Defender for Cloud concepts, key management, conditional access patterns) 

• Database delivery patterns (migrations, DACPACs, schema change controls) 

• Familiarity with GitHub Advanced Security or similar scanning tools (if applicable) 

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