Senior Associate - DevOps Engineer – Azure / Microsoft Fabric - Terraform

Job Description

Our Company

As a part of Brookfield’s $416B credit platform, Oaktree is a premier credit manager emphasizing an opportunistic, value-oriented, and risk-controlled approach to investing across credit, equity, and real estate.

Oaktree is committed to cultivating an environment that is collaborative, curious, inclusive and honors diversity of thought. Providing training and career development opportunities and emphasizing strong support for our local communities through philanthropic initiatives are essential to our culture.

Oaktree is wholly owned by Brookfield, a leading global investment firm with more than $1 trillion in assets under management. Brookfield owns and operates high-quality businesses and real assets that provide essential services and form the backbone of the global economy. It invests on behalf of institutions and individuals around the world across infrastructure, renewable power and transition, private equity, real estate, and credit.

For additional information, please visit Oaktree’s website at http://www.oaktreecapital.com/

DevOps Engineer - Azure / Microsoft Fabric

Position Summary

Oaktree is seeking an experienced DevOps Engineer with deep expertise in Microsoft Azure, Azure DevOps, GitHub EMU, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), cloud security, and technology governance. This role will be responsible for automating, securing, and supporting enterprise cloud platforms and supporting development processes across production and non-production environments.

The key focus of this role is to provide development teams with practical guidance, documented processes, reusable templates, and standardized building blocks that help teams adopt secure, consistent, and efficient DevOps practices. The ideal candidate will enable teams to accelerate delivery while maintaining enterprise standards.

This role will partner closely with development, security, and infrastructure teams to improve automation, strengthen governance, support reliable production operations, and promote DevOps best practices across the organization.

Work Mode:Hybrid (3/2)

Key Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and maintain secure, scalable Azure cloud architectures using Infrastructure as Code, primarily Terraform.

• Build and support Azure resources including Virtual Networks, Key Vault, RBAC, Storage Accounts, Containers, AKS, App Services, and related cloud services.

• Develop, maintain, and optimize CI/CD pipelines in Azure DevOps, including YAML pipelines, environment promotion workflows, approvals, automated testing, security scanning, and rollback capabilities.

• Create and maintain reusable DevOps templates, pipeline patterns, Terraform modules, deployment scripts, and configuration standards that development teams can use as building blocks.

• Provide guidance to development teams on effective use of Azure, Azure DevOps, GitHub, Microsoft Fabric, CI/CD pipelines, source control, release management, and cloud services.

• Document DevOps processes, standards, release patterns, environment promotion models, operational procedures, and best-practice guidance for use by development and support teams.

• Partner with development teams to standardize release patterns, deployment configurations, reusable templates, and automation practices.

• Manage software releases across development, QA, production, and on-premises environments in alignment with IT change management and regulatory control requirements.

• Deploy and support enterprise .NET applications across Azure and on-premises platforms.

• Support Microsoft Fabric and data DevOps deployment patterns, including pipelines, lakehouse, warehouse, and related data release practices.

• Monitor production systems, triage incidents, support root-cause analysis, and contribute to postmortems and reliability improvements.

• Participate in production support and on-call rotation for critical business systems.

• Implement and enforce governance, risk, and compliance controls across DevOps processes and cloud infrastructure, including least privilege access, secrets management, logging, and change control.

• Produce and maintain audit-ready evidence for release, change, and compliance activities, including SOX and SOC 1 controls.

• Improve monitoring, observability, and SRE practices through metrics, logs, traces, alerting, SLOs, and SLIs.

• Provide training and knowledge sharing on DevOps workflows, CI/CD, infrastructure automation, cloud infrastructure best practices, and reusable team assets.

Required Experience and Qualifications

• Strong experience working in a controlled enterprise technology environment.

• Expert-level knowledge of Azure DevOps, including YAML CI/CD pipelines, Repos, Artifacts, and Release Management.

• Experience creating reusable CI/CD templates, deployment patterns, Terraform modules, scripts, documentation, and standards for use across development teams.

• Hands-on experience deploying and supporting enterprise .NET applications across Azure and on-premises environments.

• Strong experience with Infrastructure as Code using Terraform in Microsoft Azure.

• Experience with software release management aligned to SOX, SOC 1, ITIL, and enterprise change management practices.

• Proficiency with automation and scripting using PowerShell, Bash, or Python.

• Strong knowledge of Azure services, including App Services, AKS, Virtual Networks, Storage, Key Vault, Entra ID, and IAM.

• Proficiency with Git-based source control, including Azure Repos and GitHub.

• Familiarity with TFVC or other legacy source control systems.

• Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, and CI/CD for containerized applications.

• Working knowledge of Windows Server and Microsoft SQL Server administration.

• Experience implementing monitoring and observability practices aligned to SRE principles.

• Experience with security scanning and remediation across application code, dependencies, containers, secrets, and Infrastructure as Code.

• Proven experience providing production support in a global enterprise environment.

• Ability to communicate technical standards and best practices clearly through documentation, templates, coaching, and hands-on guidance.

Preferred Experience

• Strong experience with Azure DevOps and GitHub EMU for code repositories and CI/CD Automation.

• Strong experience developing Terraform (Standard), including modules, templates and training materials

• Strong experience with CICD best practices, including Security scanning (SAST), unit testing and approval gates

• Experience with Microsoft Fabric deployment and governance practices.

• Familiarity with AWS.

Tools and Platforms

• Microsoft Azure

• Azure DevOps

• GitHub Enterprise

• Terraform

• Microsoft Fabric

• Visual Studio 2022+

• SQL Server

• Windows Server

• Docker and Kubernetes

• Microsoft Defender for Cloud / Defender for DevOps

• PowerShell, Bash, or Python

• Saviynt IGA, preferred

• AWS, preferred

Candidates should demonstrate the following behavioral competencies:

• Intellect, analytical skills and business judgment - possessing well-reasoned insights on complex investment strategies and issues; he / she will exhibit the intellectual horsepower, analytical skills and sound business judgment to make decisions in the best interest of the business. Candidates should enjoy working in a bright, hard-working, and partnership-oriented culture where dialogue is promoted, and ideas are shared openly.

• Executing for results - candidates must demonstrate a bias for results, as well as the appropriate level of tenacity and persistence usually found in successful institutional sales professionals. This should include the ability to establish compelling goals and performance objectives; persistence in pursuit of objectives is key, and this individual must exhibit the ability to make decisions and necessary course corrections based on available information and analysis.

• Building relationships and using influence - the successful candidate will convey a strong sense of executive presence both inside and outside of Oaktree; he / she will partner effectively with a strong, accomplished group of colleagues and be a credible representative of Oaktree to all external constituencies.

• Effective communication skills - candidates must be experienced, all-around communicators with good listening skills and an ability to understand and distill complex investment and financial matters; this executive will exhibit capability in communicating with passion, energy and excitement for the business.

• Collaboration & teamwork - unquestionable personal and professional ethics and a strong mix of teamwork and internal initiative are essential to thrive in Oaktree’s collaborative, yet entrepreneurial, culture.

Equal Opportunity Employment Policy

Oaktree is committed to diversity and to equal opportunity employment. Oaktree does not make employment decisions on the basis of race, creed, color, ethnicity, national origin, citizenship, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, past or present physical or mental disability, HIV status, medical condition as defined by state law (genetic characteristics or cancer), pregnancy, childbirth and related medical conditions, veteran status, military service, marital status, familial status, genetic information, domestic violence victim status or any other classification protected by applicable federal, state and local laws and ordinances. This policy applies to hiring, placement, internal promotions, training, opportunities for advancement, recruitment advertising, transfers, demotions, layoffs, terminations, recruitment advertising, rates of pay and other forms of compensation and all other terms, conditions, and privileges of employment. This policy applies to all Oaktree applicants, employees, clients, and contractors.

Equal Opportunity Employment Policy

Oaktree is committed to diversity and to equal opportunity employment. Oaktree does not make employment decisions on the basis of race, creed, color, ethnicity, national origin, citizenship, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, past or present physical or mental disability, HIV status, medical condition as defined by state law (genetic characteristics or cancer), pregnancy, childbirth and related medical conditions, veteran status, military service, marital status, familial status, genetic information, domestic violence victim status or any other classification protected by applicable federal, state and local laws and ordinances. This policy applies to hiring, placement, internal promotions, training, opportunities for advancement, recruitment advertising, transfers, demotions, layoffs, terminations, recruitment advertising, rates of pay and other forms of compensation and all other terms, conditions and privileges of employment. This policy applies to all Oaktree applicants, employees, clients, and contractors. Staff members wishing to report violations or suspected violations of this policy should contact the head of their department or Human Resources.

For positions based in Los Angeles

For those applying for a position in the city of Los Angeles, the firm will consider for employment qualified applicants with a criminal history in a manner consistent with applicable federal, state and local law.