Sr. DevOps/Automation Engineer

About the Role

Key Responsibilities

• Design, build, and upkeep tools and systems to elevate engineering team productivity.
• Work with developers to pinpoint and remedy bottlenecks in the development workflow.
• Own and deliver project-based work, as assigned, and support the Production Engineering teams as a point of escalation.
• Advance automation tools for robust continuous integration and deployment pipelines.
• Craft and maintain clear, accessible internal documentation for development practices.
• Champion code health, rigorous testing, and maintainability standards.
• Collect feedback and metrics to refine the developer experience continually.
• Develop self-service options for developers to foster independence from other teams.
• Maintain a stable, scalable, and secure development environment while keeping abreast of the latest DevOps innovations.
• Interface with IT and business teams as needed, including working on major initiatives like replatforming/migrating legacy AWS environments to new accounts, moving applications and CICD pipelines to production in new landing zones, and supporting day-to-day work such as product roadmaps, automation pipelines, and pipeline refactoring.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 5 or more years of proven experience as a software engineer with a focus on developer tools, DevOps, or site reliability engineering.
• Strong coding skills in one or more programming languages (e.g., Python, Go, C#, JavaScript).
• Experience with CI/CD tools (e.g., Jenkins, GitLab CI, CircleCI, GitHub Actions) and version control systems (e.g., Git).
• Familiarity with containerization and orchestration technologies (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes).
• Knowledge of cloud services (e.g., AWS, GCP, Azure) and infrastructure as code (e.g., Terraform, CloudFormation).
• Strong communication and collaboration skills.
• Passion for improving the developer experience and empowering engineers.
• Minimum 5 years of relevant industry experience; 7 years preferred.
• Experience with automation, migration initiatives, and cloud infrastructure is a plus.

Nice to Have

• Terraform experience
• Jenkins/Kubernetes experience
• Experience with CI applications like GitHub Actions and Jenkins
• Experience with ArgoCD
• Knowledge of Kubernetes
• Experience with OctopusDeploy for automated deployment into the cloud
• Experience with Python or Golang/Yaml for configuration languages
• Experience with migration initiatives

Qualifications

• Relevant industry experience (preferably 7 years, but at least 5 years).