Do you have a passion for all things technical and enjoy working with and leading people? Are you looking to be part of a company where you have opportunities to learn, grow and make a positive impact? Do you want to join a team where each employee is empowered to listen generously, speak straight, collaborate, and build each other up through mutual accountability and shared success? If you answer yes to all the above, we encourage you to apply to be our next DevOps Engineer.
About FPPA
The Fire and Police Pension Association was created by legislative mandate in the 1980’s. Our leadership team guides us in fulfilling our mission, vision and values while achieving our strategic objectives. We administer a statewide multiple employer public employee retirement system providing defined benefit plan coverage as well as death and disability coverage for police officers and firefighters throughout the State of Colorado.
We are a small association of only 70 staff located in Denver, CO. We work hard and have a culture that supports staff to establish a well‐balanced relationship between their personal needs and work commitments.
Position Summary
The DevOps Engineer is a hands-on technical role responsible for designing, implementing, and operating the infrastructure and deployment pipelines that support the organization’s Pension Administration System (PAS) and related services. This role owns the day-to-day execution of code movement, environment management, and deployment automation, ensuring application code is delivered reliably and consistently across Development, Test, UAT, Production, and Echo environments.
The DevOps Engineer bridges Development and IT Operations by implementing modern DevOps practices, including CI/CD pipelines, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), and production monitoring. This role operates within a hybrid tooling model leveraging GitHub for source control and Azure DevOps for enterprise pipeline orchestration. The role also utilizes AI-assisted tools such as GitHub Copilot in accordance with enterprise governance standards.
Qualifications Summary
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field preferred (or equivalent experience).
- Minimum of 3–7 years of hands-on experience in DevOps, Cloud Engineering, or Systems Engineering.
- Strong experience with Microsoft Azure, GitHub, and Azure DevOps.
- Proven experience building and troubleshooting CI/CD pipelines.
- Experience with Infrastructure as Code (Bicep, ARM, Terraform).
- Strong scripting skills in PowerShell, Python, or similar languages.
- Familiarity with GitHub Copilot or similar AI-assisted development tools.
- Strong understanding of application lifecycle management and environment promotion processes.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience supporting enterprise applications with multi-environment deployments.
- Experience working in regulated environments such as public sector or financial systems.
- Experience integrating GitHub and Azure DevOps in a hybrid DevOps model.
- Exposure to Azure AI services or Azure AI Foundry.
- Experience with containerization and orchestration technologies such as Docker or AKS.
Salary and Benefits
The salary range for this position is $140K ‐ $170K depending upon experience. Includes group medical, dental, vision, 401K, 457, defined benefit though Colorado PERA, life insurance and long‐term disability.
How do you apply?
Please send your cover letter and resume to Human Resources, humanresources@fppaco.org.
