Senior DevOps Engineer

Job summary

The Senior DevOps Engineer designs, automates, secures, and operates application delivery platforms across on-premises and AWS and Azure environments. The role owns CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions or Azure DevOps, Terraform infrastructure as code, observability, DevSecOps, reliability practices, disaster recovery, and FinOps optimization, while partnering across engineering and infrastructure teams and mentoring engineers.

Benefits

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, CIS, MIS, Mathematics, Engineering, or a related field.
• At least 6 years of hands-on experience across software delivery and infrastructure, including at least 2 years designing and operating production-scale CI/CD pipelines and cloud infrastructure.
• Demonstrated ownership of platform architecture decisions and leadership of incident response and root cause analysis.
• Hands-on experience with GitHub and GitHub Actions or Azure DevOps, Terraform, AWS, and Azure.
• Experience with cloud networking, identity, and disaster recovery design.
• Experience with scripting and programming using Bash, YAML, Java, or PL/SQL.
• Linux and Windows server administration experience.
• DevSecOps experience, including vulnerability scanning, secrets management, IAM, and encryption.
• Preferred experience migrating legacy or monolithic Java workloads, such as WebSphere, to modern or cloud-native platforms.
• Preferred database experience with Oracle RDBMS, PostgreSQL, Microsoft SQL Server, or MySQL, including entity relationship diagrams.
• Preferred Oracle database design and PL/SQL experience.
• Preferred experience with SRE practices, FinOps, public sector or financial services environments, SOC or NIST-based controls, and Waterfall or Agile methodologies.

Responsibilities

• Architect, implement, and maintain CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions or Azure DevOps.
• Define pipeline templates, environment promotion models, and scalable release controls.
• Own infrastructure as code implementations and reusable Terraform modules.
• Architect and manage AWS and Azure infrastructure, including provisioning, scaling, load balancing, network segmentation, and disaster recovery.
• Design and operate blue/green and canary deployment strategies.
• Define and report software delivery performance measures and drive improvements against documented baselines.
• Establish SLOs, SLIs, SLAs, error budgets, and operational readiness criteria.
• Maintain monitoring, logging, alerting, and observability tools.
• Embed security practices, including static and dynamic analysis, software composition analysis, and policy as code, into delivery workflows.
• Govern identity and access management, secrets, certificates, and encryption across pipelines and environments.
• Partner with infrastructure, network, and database teams on capacity, availability, backups, and disaster recovery testing.
• Optimize cloud costs and capacity using FinOps practices, forecasting consumption and reporting variance.
• Mentor engineers and drive adoption of DevOps practices across teams.
• Document technical procedures, configurations, runbooks, and solution architecture.
• Support security assessments, external audits, and internal audit requests by producing control evidence aligned with NIST and state security standards.
• Coordinate backup, recovery, and disaster recovery strategies and procedures.

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