DevOps Engineer

Independence Pet Group • Full-time • Remote (Ohio, United States, US) • 1d ago

Established in 2021, Independence Pet Holdings is a corporate holding company that manages a diverse and broad portfolio of modern pet health brands and services, including insurance, pet education, lost recovery services, and more throughout North America.

We believe pet insurance is more than a financial product and build solutions to simplify the pet parenting journey and help improve the well-being of pets. As a leading authority in the pet category, we operate with a full stack of resources, capital, and services to support pet parents. Our multi-brand and omni-channel approach include our own insurance carrier, insurance brands and partner brands.

What You Will Own

Cloud Application Platform (Azure)

You will design and operate the application layer of our Azure platform, including:

Multi-region deployment patterns across Azure regions for high availability and resilience
Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) for core application workloads
Azure Functions for event-driven and serverless components
Azure Service Bus for asynchronous messaging and decoupled architectures
Azure API Management (APIM) for secure and scalable API exposure
Azure Front Door for global routing, performance optimization, and failover

You will ensure these services are deployed in a consistent, production-ready manner with clear standards that teams can follow.

CI/CD, Release Engineering & Deployment Standards

You will build and evolve our application delivery model using Azure DevOps (ADO) and GitOps principles.

Design advanced CI/CD pipelines with automated testing, security gates, and approval workflows
Implement zero-downtime deployment strategies (Blue/Green, Canary, rolling)
Standardize branching and release models to support parallel development and fast, safe releases
Create reusable pipeline templates and deployment patterns that teams can adopt easily
Drive consistent, repeatable deployment processes across services and environments
Your goal is to make deployments boring, predictable, and safe.

Infrastructure as Code & Configuration Strategy

Define and maintain Infrastructure-as-Code using Terraform for Azure resources
Partner with the Infrastructure team to ensure networking, identity, and foundational services meet application platform needs
Own application configuration strategy using Azure App Configuration and Key Vault
Eliminate configuration drift across Dev, Test, Staging, and Production
Ensure environment parity to reduce release risk

Multi-Region Reliability & Observability

Design for regional failover and high availability at the application layer
Implement and tune monitoring using Azure Monitor and Application Insights
Establish actionable alerting that reduces noise and improves signal
Lead root cause analysis (RCA) for platform and deployment-related incidents
Continuously improve resilience, performance, and recovery processes

Developer Enablement & Platform Collaboration

You are not just operating systems — you are enabling engineers.

Create self-service templates, documentation, and golden paths for teams
Coach teams on deployment patterns, observability, and cloud-native practices
Act as a bridge between Software Engineering and Infrastructure teams
Help teams design systems that are deployable, scalable, and cost-efficient

Cost & Efficiency Engineering

Build cost awareness into deployment patterns and architectural standards
Optimize AKS, serverless, and messaging usage for performance per dollar
Partner with leadership to monitor and manage cloud spend
Prevent waste through right-sizing, lifecycle policies, and automation

All of our jobs come with great benefits including healthcare, parental leave and opportunities for career advancements. Some offerings are dependent upon the location of where you work and can include the following: