Azure DevOps Engineer

Location: Oshawa, ON (Hybrid, 2 days on-site and 3 days remote)
Language: English, strong written and spoken communication skills required
Duration: 12-month contract

About the Opportunity
This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced Azure and Databricks DevOps Engineer to support a large-scale, cloud-based data environment within a complex enterprise organization. You’ll help design, automate, secure, and operate modern data platforms that enable teams to deliver reliable analytics and data products.

Working closely with data engineers, architects, security professionals, product owners, and application teams, you’ll play a key role in improving platform reliability, deployment automation, security, and operational performance. This is an ideal role for someone who enjoys solving technical challenges while building scalable, reusable solutions.

What’s In It for You
You’ll gain hands-on exposure to enterprise Azure and Databricks environments while contributing to highly visible data platform initiatives. You’ll work alongside experienced technical teams in a collaborative environment that values automation, knowledge sharing, continuous improvement, and strong engineering practices.

Your Responsibilities
• You’ll design and manage Microsoft Azure infrastructure using Terraform and Infrastructure as Code practices.
• You’ll build and maintain CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps Pipelines, GitHub Actions, or Jenkins.
• You’ll administer Azure Databricks workspaces, clusters, jobs, workflows, repos, libraries, permissions, cluster policies, secret scopes, and Unity Catalog.
• You’ll automate deployments across development, UAT, and production environments.
• You’ll support Azure services including ADLS Gen2, Key Vault, Synapse Analytics, Data Factory, Azure Functions, Azure Monitor, and Log Analytics.
• You’ll implement security controls including RBAC, Microsoft Entra ID, managed identities, service principals, private endpoints, and secrets management.
• You’ll support production operations, monitoring, incident response, troubleshooting, performance optimization, cost management, and technical documentation.

Skills and Qualifications
• Proven experience as a DevOps Engineer, Cloud Engineer, or Data Platform Engineer in Azure environments.
• Strong hands-on experience with Azure Databricks administration, Unity Catalog, and deployment automation.
• Strong Terraform experience and practical knowledge of Infrastructure as Code.
• Experience with Azure DevOps Pipelines, GitHub Actions, or Jenkins, plus Git branching, pull requests, code reviews, and release management.
• Strong scripting skills using Python, PowerShell, Bash, and SQL.
• Experience with Azure identity, security, monitoring, and logging technologies, including Entra ID, RBAC, Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, Application Insights, or Databricks system tables.
• Strong troubleshooting, communication, collaboration, and technical documentation skills.

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We appreciate the time and effort all applicants invest in their submissions. Please note that only candidates shortlisted for this role will be contacted directly. However, your profile will remain under consideration for future opportunities that align with your experience and career goals.All qualified applicants will receive fair consideration for employment. We welcome individuals of all backgrounds, experiences, and identities including those who identify as women, members of racialized groups, Indigenous Peoples, persons with disabilities, and 2SLGBTQIA+ communities. If you require an accommodation, please review our accessibility policy and reach out to our accessibility officer with any questions. Our human recruiters review all applications and always make the final hiring decision. On occasion, we also use AI-assisted tools to help review applications.