Senior DevOps Engineer

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Florida, +2 more states.

📋 Description

• Deliver technical guidance and architectural vision for DevOps, CI/CD, and cloud-native engineering methodologies across various agile teams.

• Collaborate with architects, engineers, security, and infrastructure teams to create scalable, secure, and highly automated delivery platforms.

• Provide architectural oversight and technical leadership for multiple scrum teams.

• Align DevOps solutions with business objectives and product strategies.

• Define and refine standards for build, deployment, infrastructure, and environment management.

• Create reusable reference architectures, templates, and design patterns.

• Lead the design and implementation of automated CI/CD pipelines for build, test, release, and deployment workflows.

• Establish best practices for source control, branching, and release management.

• Design Infrastructure as Code solutions for provisioning and managing environments.

• Integrate security and compliance measures into pipelines through DevSecOps.

• Promote the adoption of containerized and cloud-native architectures utilizing Kubernetes-based platforms.

• Ensure platforms fulfill scalability, resilience, performance, and cost-efficiency criteria.

• Advise teams on service networking, API management, load balancing, and traffic management.

• Assist in high availability, disaster recovery, and business continuity strategies.

• Provide Level-3 support for complex production incidents and reliability issues.

• Enhance observability, monitoring, and alerting in collaboration with operations and engineering teams.

• Identify areas for improving system stability and operational maturity.

• Mentor and coach engineers on DevOps practices, tools, and architectural decision-making.

• Advocate for automation, ownership, continuous improvement, and quality.

• Research emerging tools, technologies, and practices.

• Build consensus and propose cost-effective solutions that enhance delivery speed, quality, and reliability.

• Optimize DevOps platforms and processes grounded in measurable outcomes.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 10 years of practical experience in DevOps, Platform Engineering, Build & Release, or Engineering Operations roles.

• Demonstrated experience in designing and maintaining DevOps architecture within enterprise-scale production environments.

• Strong background in Agile/Scrum methodologies, Continuous Integration, and Continuous Delivery.

• Practical experience in deploying and troubleshooting applications in both Linux and Windows environments.

• Advanced skills in automation and scripting using PowerShell, Python, or similar languages.

• Extensive experience with CI/CD tools such as GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, and Jenkins.

• In-depth knowledge of Docker and Kubernetes.

• Strong experience with Infrastructure as Code tools like Terraform.

• Proficiency in configuration management tools including Ansible, Puppet, or Chef.

• Solid understanding of microservices and cloud-native architectures.

• Comprehensive knowledge of networking, load balancing, caching, and service discovery.

• Strong understanding of security, secrets management, and certificate management.

• Well-versed in high availability, resilience, and disaster recovery concepts.

• Hands-on experience with AWS cloud services.

• Excellent communication skills with the capability to influence and guide technical direction among teams.

• Preferred: experience with observability and monitoring tools like Prometheus, Grafana, ELK/OpenSearch, or Datadog.

• Preferred: familiarity with NGINX/NGINX Plus, Consul, and Redis.

• Preferred: exposure to Site Reliability Engineering practices and reliability metrics.

• Preferred: experience in supporting large enterprise platforms such as BPM, CRM, Portals, or Content Management systems.

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent professional experience (preferred).

• Nice to have: experience with the Java ecosystem, including JDK, Spring Boot, and Struts.

• Nice to have: knowledge of JavaScript frameworks such as Angular, React, or Node.js.

• Nice to have: experience with monolithic, microservices, and event-driven architectures.

• Nice to have: familiarity with Test-Driven Development and automated testing frameworks.

🏝️ Benefits

• 401(k) matching.

• Medical insurance.

• Dental insurance.

• Vision insurance.

• Paid Time Off (PTO).