Lead Azure DevOps Infrastructure Engineer (AZ-104/AZ-204) - Healthcare SaaS

ABOUT US We're an established healthcare technology company running a multi-portal SaaS platform (web apps, APIs, real-time services, AI integrations) entirely on Microsoft Azure. Our DevOps engineer is moving on, and we're looking for an experienced, certified Azure professional to own our infrastructure, CI/CD and platform reliability. THE ROLE Full-time (40 hrs/week), long-term contract position. You will be our dedicated DevOps engineer and the owner of a mature but actively evolving environment: - CI/CD: Own and improve Azure DevOps pipelines across ~20 repositories (.NET 8 backends, Next.js frontends, containerised services) - Infrastructure: Azure Container Apps, App Services, Azure SQL, Cosmos DB, Key Vault, SignalR Service, Storage, Azure OpenAI / Cognitive Services; some AWS (S3, Textract) - Environments and releases: Manage dev/staging/production promotion, DB migrations, environment configuration, and release coordination with the dev team - Monitoring and reliability: Application Insights, Grafana dashboards, alerting, incident response, cost optimisation - Security: Secret and certificate lifecycle management, service principals, access hygiene, backup/DR - Platform improvement: Drive IaC adoption, deployment automation, and developer-experience improvements over time CERTIFICATION REQUIREMENTS - Required (at least one, must be current): AZ-104 (Azure Administrator Associate) or AZ-204 (Azure Developer Associate) - Strongly preferred: AZ-400 (DevOps Engineer Expert) - Bonus: AZ-305 (Solutions Architect Expert), AZ-500 (Security Engineer Associate), DP-300 (Database Administrator Associate) - Please note: fundamentals-level certifications alone (e.g. AZ-900) are not sufficient for this role EXPERIENCE REQUIREMENTS - 4+ years hands-on Azure experience in production environments - Strong Azure DevOps (Pipelines, Repos, Artifacts) experience, including YAML pipelines and multi-repo setups - Experience deploying and operating containerised .NET applications - Scripting proficiency (PowerShell, Bash or Azure CLI) - Strong written English; comfortable writing runbooks and documentation - Significant overlap with Australian business hours (AEST) PREFERRED - IaC experience (Bicep or Terraform) - Experience in healthcare or other regulated / compliance-sensitive industries - Prior experience as the sole or lead DevOps engineer in a small team WHAT WE OFFER - Stable, full-time long-term engagement: this is a long-term contract role, not a project - Full ownership of the platform with direct access to the development team and leadership - Structured 2-4 week handover with our outgoing engineer - Budget: $20-25/hour USD, 40 hrs/week HOW TO APPLY Please include in your proposal: 1. Your current Microsoft certifications and how they can be verified 2. A short summary of an Azure DevOps pipeline environment you have owned end to end (repo count, stack, what you improved) 3. Your experience with Azure Container Apps and containerised .NET deployments 4. Your timezone and the hours you can reliably overlap with AEST Start your proposal with the word "Handover" so we know you have read this ad. Applications without a current AZ-104 or AZ-204 will not be considered.