About the role
Restaurant365 is a SaaS company disrupting the restaurant industry! Our cloud-based platform provides a unique, centralized solution for accounting and back-office operations for restaurants. Restaurant365’s culture is focused on empowering team members to produce top-notch results while elevating their skills. We’re constantly evolving and improving to make sure we are and always will be “Best in Class” ... and we want that for you too! Restaurant365 is seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer to lead the design, buildout, and operational ownership of our Azure cloud infrastructure supporting internally developed Claude AI applications. This role is the technical cornerstone of a new initiative enabling business users across the organization to build, host, and securely share AI-powered applications. You will own the full lifecycle from infrastructure provisioning and CI/CD pipeline design through change management, security governance, and production operations. This role focuses on enterprise-facing applications and internal stakeholder enablement and does not support customer-facing product infrastructure. This role is a strong fit for someone who enjoys owning cloud platform architecture, strengthening security and governance, improving CI/CD and operational standards, and helping internal teams bring business applications into production in a scalable and supportable way.
The role sits at the intersection of DevOps, internal platform engineering, and applied AI enablement. \n How you'll add value: Architect, implement, and operate Azure infrastructure (App Services, Functions, Container Apps, networking, storage) to host Claude AI applications built by internal business users Design, maintain, and improve CI/CD pipelines (Azure DevOps / GitHub Actions) for automated build, test, and deployment of user-developed applications Establish and enforce a change management process including environment promotion gates, approval workflows, and rollback procedures Serve as the primary technical owner of the hosted application platform, ensuring reliability, scalability, and cost optimization Partner directly with internal application owners and business stakeholders to onboard new enterprise applications to the platform, advising on architecture, deployment, and support best practices. Define and enforce security policies for application sharing, including authentication, authorization, and network access controls Build and monitoring observability solutions (Azure Monitor, Application Insights, Log Analytics) to provide proactive alerting and performance visibility Author and maintain Infrastructure as Code (Terraform / Bicep) for all Azure resources, ensuring environments are reproducible and auditable Drive incident response processes and conduct post-incident reviews to improve platform resilience Mentor mid-level DevOps engineers and contribute to team standards, documentation, and runbooks Develop and enforce governance policies defining standards for hosted Claude AI applications, including acceptable use policies, approval workflows for new deployments, and application lifecycle management Own Azure cost management and FinOps practices, monitoring spend across hosted applications, identifying optimization opportunities, and providing regular cost reporting to leadership Lead capacity planning and scaling strategy as internal adoption of the Claude AI hosting platform grows, ensuring infrastructure stays ahead of demand Manage the vendor relationship with Anthropic, coordinating on API usage, rate limits, enterprise support, and roadmap alignment Design and deliver training and enablement sessions for business users on how to properly build, package, and submit Claude AI applications for secure hosting Collaborate closely with InfoSec and IT Security teams on Entra ID integration, Conditional Access policies, vulnerability remediation, and compliance-related infrastructure controls Ensure platform operations meet compliance and audit