Education: Bachelor's degree or related field
Experience: 10+ years
Duties and Responsibilities, as They Align to Ryan's Key Results
- Champion a DevOps culture focused on an automation-first mindset, continuous improvement, collaboration, and transparency.
- Partner with development teams to improve reliability, performance, and deployment practices.
- Architect and implement an Internal Developer Portal to provide self-service infrastructure, application templates, and deployment workflows.
- Enable "golden paths" for engineering teams to accelerate onboarding and reduce cognitive load.
- Integrate the IDP with continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) systems, cloud infrastructure, identity management, and observability platforms.
- Maintain service catalogs, documentation standards, and ownership metadata.
- Continuously improve developer experience through feedback and platform enhancements.
Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) Platform Engineering
- Design, implement, and maintain fully automated CI/CD pipelines for Java, .NET, and Node.js applications.
- Build standardized deployment workflows across Amazon Web Services (AWS) and/or Microsoft Azure environments.
- Implement automated testing, security scanning, and quality gates within pipelines.
- Establish reusable pipeline templates and shared libraries to enforce best practices.
- Optimize build and deployment performance, reliability, and observability.
- Design and manage cloud infrastructure in AWS and/or Azure using infrastructure as code, with Terraform required.
- Build reusable Terraform modules and enforce governance through policy-as-code.
- Implement secure, scalable networking and cloud-native architecture patterns.
- Ensure high availability, scalability, and disaster recovery readiness.
- Implement monitoring, logging, and alerting strategies for both infrastructure and applications.
- Integrate DevSecOps practices, including vulnerability scanning and secrets management.
- Lead proof-of-concept initiatives to evaluate and introduce new tools, platforms, and automation processes.
- 10 or more years of progressive experience in software engineering, DevOps, cloud engineering, or platform engineering.
- Demonstrated evolution from software development into cloud infrastructure and automation.
- Six or more years of hands-on experience with CI/CD tools, such as Harness, CloudBees, Jenkins, and Azure DevOps, and modern software delivery practices.
- Deep development expertise in Java and/or Node.js application environments.
- Strong hands-on experience with AWS and/or Azure, including networking, serverless, and other managed cloud infrastructure.
- Advanced proficiency with Terraform and infrastructure as code principles.
- Experience designing scalable cloud-native architectures.
- Strong knowledge of Windows Server and Microsoft SQL Server, including SQL Server Availability Groups.
- Strong scripting skills using Python, PowerShell, Bash, or similar technologies.
- Experience with automation technologies such as Terraform, Ansible, and AWS CloudFormation.
- Strong understanding of secure software delivery, Git branching strategies, and DevSecOps practices.
- Experience with containerization technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes.
- Experience leading technical evaluations and proof-of-concept initiatives for new tools and processes.
- Excellent collaboration skills with the ability to work cross-functionally across engineering, security, and operations teams.
- Clear, transparent communication style with a bias toward documentation and shared ownership.
- Experience building or implementing a commercial Internal Developer Portal, such as Harness IDP, Port, or a similar platform.
- Experience implementing platform engineering concepts and developer self-service models.
- Familiarity with service mesh, application programming interface (API) gateways, or cloud-native networking.
- Experience implementing security automation and compliance guardrails.
- Knowledge of observability platforms, including Datadog, Prometheus, Elasticsearch, Logstash, and Kibana (ELK), and cloud-native tools.
- Experience in multicloud or hybrid cloud environments.
- Bachelor's degree or higher in computer science, engineering, mathematics, information systems, or a related technical field.
- Valid driver's license required.
- AWS and/or Azure certifications preferred; professional-level or specialty certifications preferred.
- Additional certifications in DevOps, Kubernetes, or cloud technologies are a plus.
This position has no supervisory responsibilities.
- Standard indoor working environment.
- Occasional long periods of sitting while working at a computer.
- Position requires regular interaction with employees at all levels of the Firm, as well as interaction with external vendors and clients as necessary.
- Independent travel requirement: up to 10%.
- For certain California based roles, the base salary hiring range for this position is $124,000.00 - $163,900.00
- For other California based roles, the base salary hiring range for this position is $114,000.00 - $150,700.00
- For Colorado based roles, the base salary hiring range for this position is $109,000.00 - $144,100.00
- For Illinois based roles, the base salary hiring range for this position is $114,000.00 - $150,700.00
- For other Illinois based roles, the base salary hiring range for this position is $109,000.00 - $144,100.00
- For Maryland based roles, the base salary hiring range for this position is $109,000.00 - $144,100.00
- For Massachusetts based roles, the base salary hiring range for this position is $114,000.00 - $150,700.00
- For other Massachusetts based roles, the base salary hiring range for this position is $109,000.00 - $144,100.00
- For New Jersey based roles, the base salary hiring range for this position is $124,000.00 - $163,900.00
- For New York based roles, the base salary hiring range for this position is $124,000.00 - $163,900.00
- For other New York based roles, the base salary hiring range for this position is $103,000.00 - $136,400.00
- For Washington based roles, the base salary hiring range for this position is $114,000.00 - $150,700.00
Search Senior DevOps Engineer jobs near Plano → Browse all live jobs
This posting was published by Ryan on their own careers system and is shown here with a direct link to apply there. Employers: for corrections or removal, contact jobs@veritahire.com.