Azure DevOps Engineer

Senior DevOps Engineer

Alight empowers clients to build a healthier and more financially secure workforce by unifying the benefits ecosystem across health, wealth, wellbeing, navigation, and absence management. We invite you to join our team!

The Role

A Senior DevOps Engineer to design, build, and scale cloud infrastructure and CI/CD capabilities supporting healthcare applications and services. Hands-on expertise across Azure, AWS infrastructure automation with Terraform, YAML-based pipelines, and DevOps platforms such as Azure DevOps (ADO) and GitHub.

Responsibilities

• Implementing and governing Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform, including modules, state management, and CI enforcement.
• Driving compliance alignment across DevOps processes to meet SOC 2, HIPAA, and using CheckMarx, SonarQube internal security standards, focusing on access control, auditability, and PHI safeguards.
• Automating deployment, monitoring, and operational reliability across distributed cloud services, familiar with containerized workloads is a plus.
• Collaborating with security, compliance, and audit teams to support continuous monitoring, evidence gathering, and security assessments.
• Delivering infrastructure and application deployments during weekend release windows as required; participate in an on-call rotation.
• Enforcing and contributing to engineering standards, best practices, and technical design reviews.
• Troubleshooting and remediate complex production issues, performing root cause analysis and implementing long-term fixes.
• Monitoring, support, and troubleshoot ETL and data integration workflows across production, QA, and development environments to ensure smooth daily operations.
• Analyzing and resolve incidents, job failures, and performance issues related to Informatica workflows, mappings, and SQL jobs.
• Owning and maintain ETL components including Informatica mappings, metadata, scripts, schedules, and operational procedures. Identify opportunities to optimize performance, scalability, and reliability of existing jobs/processes.
• Ensuring stability of data ingestion pipelines spanning batch, nearrealtime, and realtime patterns. Finetune ETL solutions by developing a deep technical understanding of data flows and upstream/downstream dependencies.
• Collaborating with DBAs and Data Architects to implement appropriate data partitioning, indexing, and optimization strategies to enhance job performance.
• Developing or modify SQL scripts, stored procedures, database triggers, and queries as part of incident resolution, change requests, or performance tuning. Work closely with cross functional and offshore teams, ensuring timely resolution of issues, clear communication, and adherence to support SLAs and operational guidelines.
• Managing multiple concurrent support tickets, change requests, and enhancement tasks, balancing priorities based on business impact and urgency.
• Ensuring compliance with published support, development, coding, and testing standards, as well as change management practices.

Requirements

• 5+ years of DevOps or Cloud Engineering experience, with at least 3 years hands-on experience in both Azure and AWS.
• Demonstrate expertise with YAML-based pipelines (multi-stage, reusable templates, variable groups, environments).
• Proficiency with Azure DevOps (ADO) and GitHub/GitHub Actions for CI/CD, repository management, and pipelines governance.
• Proficiency abilities using PowerShell, Bash, or Python.
• Demonstrate expertise with Azure Cosmo DB, Kubernetes platforms (AKS, EKS), or GitOps tools (Argo CD, Flux).
• Maintain experience with observability tools such as Azure Application Insight, New Relic, Azure Monitor, CloudWatch
• Have certifications such as AZ-104, AZ-400

** Please NOTE: Applicants must reside in the United States in one of the 50 States or the District of Columbia in order to be considered for this role. **US Citizenship requirements- as this role supports services provided to the federal government and/or a federal government contractor, proof will be required to verify US citizenship status at time of hire.

Alight requires all virtual interviews to be conducted on video.

We celebrate differences and believe in fostering an environment where everyone feels valued, respected, and supported. We know that diverse teams are stronger, more innovative, and more successful.

At Alight, we welcome and embrace all individuals, regardless of their background, and are dedicated to creating a culture that enables every employee to thrive. Join us in building a brighter, more inclusive future.

As part of this commitment, Alight will ensure that persons with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodations for the hiring process. If reasonable accommodation is needed, please contact View email address on click.appcast.io.

Alight is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer and does not discriminate against anyone based on sex, race, color, religion, creed, national origin, ancestry, age, physical or mental disability, medical condition, pregnancy, marital or domestic partner status, citizenship, military or veteran status, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity or expression, genetic information, or any other legally protected characteristics or conduct covered by federal, state, or local law. In addition, we take affirmative action to employ disabled persons, disabled veterans, and other covered veterans.

Alight provides reasonable accommodations to the known limitations of otherwise qualified employees and applicants for employment with disabilities and sincerely held religious beliefs, practices and observances, unless doing so would result in undue hardship.

Applicants for employment in the country in which they are applying (Employing Country) must have work authorization that does not, now or in the future, require sponsorship of a visa for employment authorization in the Employing Country and with Alight.

Salary Pay Range

Minimum : $120,000.00 USD

Maximum : $150,000.00 USD

Pay Transparency Statement: Alight considers a variety of factors in determining whether to extend an offer of employment and in setting the appropriate compensation level, including, but not limited to, a candidate's experience, education, certification/credentials, market data, internal equity, and geography. Bonus and/or incentive eligibility are determined by role and level. Alight also offers a comprehensive benefits package; for specific details on our benefits package, please visit: Wellbeing and Benefits Selector Page - Alight.