DevOps Platform Developer

Our teams are building the next generation of platforms that power our products and customers. We’re investing in Platform Engineering to give developers the tools, infrastructure, and guardrails they need to ship reliably at scale.

Why You’ll Want to Build With Us

• Brains Meet Bots: We’re all in on smart automation and next-gen tooling. From scripting to infrastructure automation, your work will solve real-world challenges at scale.
• Modern Stack, Modern Thinking - We’re deep in Azure, Terraform/OpenTofu, CI/CD, containerization, and observability. No legacy ball-and-chain here—just a team building with the best tools for the job.
• Your Work Matters - This isn’t a ticket-tending role. You’ll solve infrastructure puzzles, optimize performance, and shape experiences that impact both internal teams and external clients.
• Remote-First, People-Always - We support flexible, remote-first work because life doesn’t stop at 9 to 5. You’ll work with kind, curious humans who are serious about tech and equally serious about creating a great place to work.
• No Robots in Leadership - We lead with clarity, listen with intention, and support our people to grow and thrive. If you love continuous improvement, collaboration, and well-placed memes—you’ll fit right in.

As a DevOps Platform Specialist, you’ll help design, build, and maintain the infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, and observability stack that power Rival’s products. This role is about enabling developers through automation, infrastructure-as-code, and secure cloud practices—not just supporting workloads. You’ll provision infrastructure, optimize cloud resources, and ensure Rival’s production environments are secure, scalable, and reliable.

Key Responsibilities

Platform Ownership

• Build and manage cloud infrastructure in Azure using Terraform/OpenTofu/Bicep.
• Design and maintain CI/CD pipelines in Azure DevOps to automate build, test, and deployment.
• Implement monitoring, logging, and alerting with modern observability tools.
• Manage Kubernetes (AKS), containers, databases, queues, storage, and networking services.
• Ensure security best practices in the cloud: RBAC, secrets management, access controls.
• Maintain and support production environments, ensuring availability, performance, and resilience.

• Partner with developers to provide reusable templates, pipelines, and infrastructure patterns.
• Contribute to the platform roadmap and shape Rival’s cloud strategy.
• Troubleshoot and optimize platform performance with reliability in mind.

• 3+ years in DevOps, Cloud, or Platform roles.
• Hands-on experience with Azure IaaS/PaaS (VMs, AKS, SQL, networking).
• Strong knowledge of CI/CD (Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, or similar).
• Infrastructure as Code experience (Terraform, OpenTofu, or Bicep).
• Strong background in containerization (Docker, Kubernetes, AKS).
• Scripting/automation with PowerShell, Bash, or Python.
• Experience supporting and maintaining production environments with performance and reliability focus.
• Comfortable working cross-functionally with internal and external stakeholders.

• SQL Server performance tuning/tracing.
• Experience with multi-tenant or single-tenant hosted environments.
• Networking fundamentals in cloud environments.

We are committed to fostering an accessible and inclusive workplace. If you require accommodation during the recruitment process, let us know—we’ll work with you to meet your needs. We appreciate all applications; however, only those selected for interviews will be contacted.