Senior DevOps Engineer, Applications
Role Overview
As a Senior DevOps Engineer at WME, you'll own the infrastructure and reliability for a greenfield platform supporting the entertainment industry. You'll design and maintain Azure cloud resources, Kubernetes clusters, CI/CD pipelines, and observability tooling while leading incident response and driving reliability improvements. This role involves active migration from a legacy .NET/MSSQL system to a modern cloud-native stack, requiring hands-on work with Terraform, PostgreSQL, and developer tooling.
Perks & Benefits
This is a fully remote position with worldwide flexibility, offering a competitive salary range of $131,250-$175,000 annually. You'll have the opportunity to shape a new engineering organization from the ground up, working on greenfield infrastructure projects. The role emphasizes AI-assisted development and practical, maintainable architectures, with potential for growth in a supportive, equal-opportunity environment.
Full Job Description
Headquarters: Remote-CA URL: http://wmeagency.com
WME is building the next generation of internal platforms that power one of the world's leading entertainment companies.We're looking for a Senior Dev Ops Engineer who is equally comfortable designing cloud infrastructure and improving system reliability. The software we build helps agents and teams manage relationships, deals, and opportunities across the global entertainment industry and keeping it fast, available, and observable is critical work.You'll own the infrastructure and reliability story end-to-end: provisioning cloud resources, maintaining Kubernetes deployments, improving CI/CD pipelines, and building the observability that lets engineers move fast with confidence. We're in an active migration from a legacy system, so you'll be operating both the new platform and supporting the transition as we move module by module.We're building this engineering organization largely from the ground up. If you like greenfield infrastructure work, have opinions about how platforms should be built, and want to shape how a team ships software, this is the role.Example Problems You Might Work On:Designing and maintaining the Azure infrastructure that runs our gRPC microservices and Next.js web appBuilding observability that gives engineers visibility into service health, latency, and failure modes across a distributed systemImproving CI/CD pipelines so deployments are fast, safe, and fully automatedManaging PostgreSQL at scale backups, failover, migrations, and performanceSupporting a multi-service migration from a legacy .NET/MSSQL platform to a modern cloud-native stackBuilding developer tooling that reduces friction and keeps the team shippingWhat You'll Do:Own and evolve Azure infrastructure using Terraform networking, compute, managed services, and secretsManage Kubernetes clusters and Helm-based deployments for a distributed microservices platformBuild and maintain CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions / Azure DevOps) that keep deployments fast and safeDefine and improve observability: metrics, logging, alerting, and tracing across servicesLead incident response drive resolution, write postmortems, and follow through on reliability improvementsManage PostgreSQL infrastructure: backups, replication, failover, and query performanceCollaborate closely with engineers to improve local development environments and deployment workflowsEnforce security best practices: secrets management, network policies, access controls, and vulnerability scanningWhat We're Looking ForSolid DevOps or platform engineering experience, typically 5+ yearsStrong hands-on experience with Azure (AKS, Azure AD, managed databases, blob storage, networking)Terraform experience writing, organizing, and maintaining infrastructure as code at scaleKubernetes and Helm experience managing production workloadsExperience building and operating CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, or similar)PostgreSQL experience operational management, migrations, and performance tuningSolid understanding of observability tooling (Datadog, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, or equivalent)Experience with incident response and driving reliability improvements from postmortemsDocker and container image management experienceFamiliarity with secrets management tools (Azure Key Vault, Vault, or equivalent)Comfortable working in environments where systems and processes are still evolvingHow We BuildShip practical software that solves real problemsFavor simple, maintainable architecturesWork closely across engineering, product, and designUse modern cloud infrastructure (AWS / Azure), Terraform, and containerized deploymentsMaintain automated CI/CD pipelines to keep shipping fast and safeLeverage AI-assisted development across the engineering workflowPer local requirements and in the interest of transparency, the rate shown below reflects the prevalent current hiring range for this position. Hiring pay rates are based on a number of factors, including location and may vary depending on job-related qualifications, knowledge, skills and experience. The company strives to provide locally competitive rewards packages, which include base rate along with, as applicable, short- and long-term incentives, growth and developmental opportunities, and robust benefits, such as health care, retirement, vacation and other paid time off, and additional offerings.Hiring Rate Minimum: $131,250 annually (minimum will not fall below the applicable state/local minimum salary thresholds)Hiring Rate Maximum:$175,000 annuallyWME is an equal opportunity employer and encourages applications from qualified and eligible candidates regardless of sex, race, disability, age, sexual orientation, or religion or belief.
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