• Own and evolve the Azure-based API Platform that powers the company's compounding operations. • Operate private AKS clusters and implement admission controllers. • Enforce image signing and scanning within the CI/CD pipelines. • Design deployment strategies such as blue-green and canary rollouts with pre-deploy security gates. • Own cost optimization across all environments. • Maintain documented wake-up processes with defined SLAs. • Manage monitoring and observability tooling. • Lead cross-functional conversations (security, developers, CTO) about phased rollouts across subscriptions, bringing cost data, risk context, and an infrastructure plan that leaves everyone aligned. • Reframe problems strategically rather than just executing tasks.

Title: Azure DevOps Engineer Job Description: Employee Type: Contract Remote: Yes Pay Range: $50 - $70 per hour Job#: 3040929 Location: San Antonio, TX (Remote) Role Overview The DevSecOps & MLOps Engineer is responsible for the configuration and administration of the Azure DevOps (ADO) and Azure Machine Learning (AML) environments. This role uses expertise to streamline the data science lifecycle and enable agile delivery through continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipelines, code repos, test plans, and boards. The engineer will work closely with cross-functional agile teams to ensure understanding and best practices within Azure DevOps and Azure Machine Learning. Key Responsibilities - Promote DevSecOps principles and culture across the organization. - Streamline the data science and development lifecycles by identifying pain points and productivity barriers. - Collaborate with development teams to understand current build and release processes and recommend improvements. - Partner with stakeholders, including Data Architecture, Data Engineering, Data Science, Business Intelligence, Robotic Process Automation, quality assurance, and security. - Provide guidance to development teams to improve solution performance and operability. - Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines to improve developer productivity, agility, and code quality. - Develop and improve automation solutions for efficient and consistent code deployment. - Build automated testing to reduce manual effort and improve product quality. - Ensure systems meet business and customer needs for reliability and availability. - Analyze and troubleshoot complex production issues with cross-functional stakeholders. - Prepare and present design and implementation documentation. - Monitor and manage application performance and service quality, including root cause analysis and issue resolution. Required Qualifications Education: A bachelor’s degree or equivalent applied experience is required. Experience: Candidates must have 5+ years of experience within Information Technology, with required experience in Azure DevOps & MLOps. Technical Skills: - Experience developing Azure DevOps pipelines and automated workflows. - Proficiency in one or more coding/scripting languages such as PowerShell or Python. - Experience in configuration management, test-driven development, and release management. - Experience with agile development methodologies and a strong understanding of DevSecOps principles. - General SQL understanding and troubleshooting skills. Preferred Qualifications - 3-5 years of experience as a DevSecOps/MLOps Engineer is desired. - An AZ-400 DevOps Engineer Certification is desired. - Experience with Data & Analytics Teams is desired. Everforth Apex is a world-class IT services company that serves thousands of clients across the globe. 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Role Description Join our team as a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to drive availability, performance, and operational excellence across our security platforms. - Own reliability outcomes for security platforms by defining SLIs/SLOs and error budgets; build actionable alerting, dashboards, and runbooks. - Architect and implement high availability, capacity planning, and disaster recovery for IDS/IPS, DDoS mitigation, and supporting services. - Design zero/minimal-downtime maintenance and upgrade strategies for OS, firmware, and signature updates. - Automate deployments, configuration, and compliance using SaltStack and Python. - Operate and improve a heterogeneous stack: TrendMicro TippingPoint IPS, Suricata, NetScout/Arbor Sightline/TMS, HAProxy, Nginx, Juniper, Palo Alto, Kentik/KProxy. - Build and evolve observability: Icinga alerting, Grafana dashboards, InfluxDB metrics, rsyslog pipelines; drive SLO-based alerting and noise reduction. - Lead incident response within a 24/7 on-call rotation; act as incident commander, drive rapid mitigation, and run blameless postmortems with durable fixes. - Reduce toil through self-service tooling, APIs, and automated health checks; champion reliability reviews and game days/chaos testing. - Ensure audit-ready operations aligned to WebTrust and PCI-DSS; uphold change management, configuration baselines, and access controls. - Collaborate with Network Engineering, Security Architecture, Hosting, and Product teams; mentor and provide technical guidance to 2–3 contractors. - Maintain high-quality operational documentation, SOPs, and architectural diagrams. Qualifications - 5+ years in SRE/production operations or platform engineering supporting large-scale, mission-critical systems; experience with network/security platforms. - Expert-level SaltStack for configuration management and automation (e.g., Puppet, Ansible). - Strong Linux administration and troubleshooting; deep understanding of TCP/IP, routing, L4–L7, and load balancing. - Proficiency in Python for automation, tooling, and integrations; familiarity with software engineering practices (code reviews, testing, CI/CD). - Observability at scale: Icinga, Grafana, InfluxDB, and rsyslog. - Git-based workflows and Infrastructure as Code concepts. - Proven effectiveness in a 24/7 operations environment with on-call responsibilities and incident management. - Excellent technical writing and documentation skills; ability to lead and mentor contractors. Requirements - Hands-on administration of IDS/IPS and DDoS platforms (TrendMicro TippingPoint, Suricata, NetScout/Arbor Sightline/TMS). - Experience with HAProxy and Nginx; Juniper and Palo Alto administration. - Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field. - Industry certifications (Security+, CISSP, Linux+). - Experience in web hosting, ISP, or managed service provider environments. - Background in incident response, change management, and compliance audits. - Experience operating hybrid cloud/on-premises infrastructure; understanding of WebTrust and PCI-DSS operational requirements. Benefits - Paid time off. - Retirement savings (e.g., 401k, pension schemes). - Bonus/incentive eligibility. - Equity grants. - Participation in our employee stock purchase plan. - Competitive health benefits. - Family-friendly benefits including parental leave.

• Design, scale, and maintain enterprise pipelines and automate cloud infrastructure provisioning • Manage cluster availability, security, networking, ingress, and service mesh traffic management • Coordinate cross-team releases, Git branching strategies, and database version control/rollback strategies • Build platform monitoring, logging, and metrics dashboards while supporting incident response and root-cause analysis (RCA) • Partner with Dev Leads to remove deployment blockers, align on infrastructure standards, and manage cross-service dependencies