Staff DevOps Engineer - Microsoft Azure

Position Summary

As a Staff DevOps Engineer at realworld one, you will play an important role in building a new category around one of the largest unmet opportunities in industrial enterprises: execution performance.

While organizations invest billions in systems that manage quality, operations, service, and business performance, no system today is designed to measure, improve, and manage execution itself. We believe execution performance will become a critical enterprise layer, enabling organizations to systematically improve operational performance and business outcomes.

realworld one is building the platform required to make this vision a reality.

In this role, you will define and evolve the technical direction of our Azure-based infrastructure, Kubernetes platform, deployment architecture and infrastructure automation. You will remain hands-on while taking responsibility for architecture decisions, platform reliability and engineering standards across the DevOps domain.

You will work closely with engineering teams to identify structural improvements, reduce operational complexity and build scalable platform capabilities that enable teams to deliver software reliably and independently.

Through deep technical expertise, sound judgment and strong ownership, you will ensure that our infrastructure remains resilient, secure, scalable and maintainable as the company and platform continue to grow.

Responsibilities

• Own and evolve the architecture of our production Azure infrastructure, ensuring scalability, security, reliability, performance and long-term maintainability.
• Take end-to-end ownership of our Kubernetes/AKS platform, including architecture, networking, scaling, upgrades, security, troubleshooting and lifecycle management.
• Build and maintain reusable infrastructure and automation standards using Terraform, Ansible, Azure DevOps and related tooling, improving consistency, security and developer experience.
• Evolve resilient production capabilities across networking, identity, secrets management, disaster recovery, backup, monitoring and observability.
• Identify architectural risks, operational bottlenecks and recurring sources of complexity, and drive structural improvements, reusable patterns and platform capabilities that enable engineering teams to operate more independently.
• Remain hands-on while providing technical direction, mentoring engineers and raising engineering standards across the DevOps and platform domain.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of relevant engineering experience, including several years of hands-on responsibility for production systems and cloud infrastructure.
• Deep expertise in Microsoft Azure, including compute, networking, storage, security, identity and monitoring, with experience across services such as Front Door, Application Gateway, Azure Firewall and Private Endpoints.
• Strong hands-on experience operating Docker and Kubernetes/AKS in production environments, including scaling, upgrades and troubleshooting.
• Advanced experience with Infrastructure as Code using Terraform and configuration management with Ansible.
• Strong experience building and optimizing CI/CD pipelines with Azure DevOps.
• Strong Linux skills and experience automating infrastructure and operational workflows using Bash, PowerShell and/or Python.
• Proven ability to make sound architecture decisions, identify risks and bottlenecks, and drive improvements in reliability, scalability and engineering standards.

About us

realworld one's mission is to accelerate advancements in the life sciences community by providing the best extended reality solutions. Customers include several major, well-known companies such as Bayer, Cytiva, GEA Group, Lonza, Roche, Sartorius, SKAN or ZEISS.