Staff Site Reliability Engineer

Summary

Join MCG, a leading healthcare organization, and become our highly experienced Staff Site Reliability Engineer. Lead and scale our DevOps function, combining hands-on expertise with technical leadership and mentorship. Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines, manage cloud infrastructure in Azure, and set best practices. The ideal candidate possesses deep understanding of .NET environments and modern containerized ecosystems. This role offers dynamic responsibilities with meaningful impact and world-class benefits from our parent company, Hearst. You will be responsible for leading a team of DevOps engineers and driving modernization efforts. This is a hybrid role based in Seattle, Washington, with occasional travel.

Requirements

• 6+ years of hands-on DevOps and infrastructure engineering experience
• Proven experience leading DevOps teams or mentoring senior engineers
• Strong knowledge of Azure cloud services, including AKS, VMs, networking, monitoring, and security
• Proficiency in Terraform and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) best practices
• Experience maintaining legacy .NET Framework web applications and migrating them to containerized environments
• Deep understanding of Docker, Kubernetes, and Helm for production deployments
• Strong scripting and automation experience (Bash, PowerShell, Python, etc.)
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to create clear, actionable design documentation

Responsibilities

• Serve as the DevOps subject matter expert, mentoring software engineers and equipping them to adopt and maintain modern DevOps practices, CI/CD pipelines, and infrastructure solutions
• Define, communicate, and enforce DevOps standards across the team, including coding conventions, release processes, Infrastructure as Code (IaC) strategies, and automation guidelines, to ensure consistency and quality
• Design, build, and maintain CI/CD pipelines that support both legacy .NET Framework applications and modern microservices
• Ensure seamless build, test, release, and rollback flows with automated quality checks and scalable deployment strategies
• Drive modernization efforts by containerizing legacy systems and deploying them to Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
• Own and manage cloud infrastructure in Microsoft Azure, including VMs, networking, load balancing, and managed services
• Build and maintain Infrastructure as Code using Terraform, ensuring modularity, reusability, and security compliance
• Ensure cost optimization, performance monitoring, and security best practices are followed
• Create and continuously update infrastructure and deployment architecture diagrams, documents, and SOPs
• Present and share designs with developers, architects, and product stakeholders; gather feedback and incorporate changes
• Maintain visibility into all environments and ensure architectural consistency across services
• Work closely with software engineering, QA, product, and security teams to align infrastructure with application roadmaps
• Participate in sprint planning and architectural reviews, adapting infrastructure design to evolving SDLC priorities
• Identify risks, estimate timelines, and own the execution plan for infrastructure and DevOps initiatives

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience designing and operating hybrid (legacy + containerized) deployment models
• Familiarity with security, compliance, and cost governance in enterprise cloud environments
• Track record of rolling out DevOps process improvements and infrastructure standardization at scale

Benefits

• Medical, dental, vision, life, and disability insurance
• 401K retirement plan; flexible spending and health savings account
• 15 days of paid time off + additional front-loaded personal days
• 14 company-recognized holidays + paid volunteer days
• Up to 8 weeks of paid parental leave + 10 weeks of paid bonding leave
• LGBTQ+ Health Services
• Pet insurance
• Hybrid work