DevOps EngineerDepartment: DevOps
Employment Type: Full Time
Location: Pittsburgh, PA
Compensation: $111,000 - $129,000 / year
DescriptionAbout The RoleThe Wolfe Companies are seeking a DevOps Engineer to join a growing engineering team in Pittsburgh, PA. This position will participate and/or lead the design, maintenance, support, and reliability of mission-critical server infrastructure, including systems that will enable an upcoming robotic manufacturing facility. The role emphasizes cloud-native (AWS) and hybrid-cloud architecture, requiring strong experience supporting both cloud and on-premises environments.
This role plays a critical part in designing and implementing best-in-class DevOps solutions that drive operational excellence across the organization. The DevOps Engineer will collaborate with cross-functional teams-including Product, Development, QA, Security, AI, and IT-to ensure reliable, automated, secure, and scalable infrastructure.
This is a 5-day onsite position in Pittsburgh, PA.Responsibilities- Participate and/or lead day-to-day operations with a focus on availability, resiliency, SRE practices, performance tuning, and capacity/cost optimization.
- Establish strong observability, incident response, and business continuity capabilities, including monitoring, alerting, backups, disaster recovery, and routine testing.
- Drive automation-first operations using Infrastructure-as-Code (Iac), Ai, and configuration management (Terraform, Ansible/Puppet/Chef), scripting (Bash/Python), and CI/CD pipelines.
- Implement secure, compliant infrastructure and operational standards (IAM, encryption, network controls, PCI/SOC2), while contributing runbooks, on-call support, and productivity-enhancing tooling.
For more clarity on the role, below are the success metrics and measurements for this role in the first 90 to 120 days.:
- Fulfill on-call responsibilities, consistently meeting or exceeding established Mean Time to Acknowledge (MTTA) and Mean Time to Resolve (MTTR) targets to ensure high service availability.
- Complete on-premises infrastructure training and actively participate in at least one scheduled server maintenance operation across manufacturing facilities.
- Develop a working knowledge of the existing AWS environment and contribute at least two meaningful pull requests to Terraform codebases, supporting infrastructure-as-code best practices.
- Engage in the work intake and prioritization process, reliably meeting SLAs for both work acknowledgement and completion to support team throughput and predictability.
- Collaborate cross-functionally to design and deliver at least one measurable improvement to infrastructure reliability or observability, with clearly defined success metrics.
Qualifications- Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience with 5+ years of DevOps/Cloud Engineering, including deep hands-on expertise in AWS and hybrid (cloud + on-prem) environments.
- Strong infrastructure engineering fundamentals spanning Linux systems, networking, security, storage, and enterprise application operations.
- Advanced Linux administration and experience operating 3-tier application architectures, virtualized platforms, and shared storage (e.g., VMware/Proxmox, TrueNAS; HCI a plus).
- Proficiency in containerization and orchestration (Docker, ECS, Swarm) and running container workloads in AWS.
- Strong automation and delivery skills, including Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform), configuration management/scripting (Ansible, Bash, Python), CI/CD pipelines, and observability/incident response tooling.
- Demonstrated cloud security and compliance experience (IAM, encryption, network controls, PCI/SOC2), with working knowledge of core AWS services and platforms (EC2, S3, RDS, Lambda, API Gateway, CloudFront); experience with MySQL, RabbitMQ, and AI-assisted DevOps preferred.
- Strong troubleshooting skills across distributed systems, including root cause analysis for performance, availability, and networking issues.
- Ability to evaluate, adopt, and standardize AI-assisted DevOps tools to improve operational efficiency, code quality, and security posture.
Compensation, Benefits, and PerksWolfe is committed to providing a comprehensive benefits package to support your well-being, along with competitive compensation. Our benefits and perks include but not limited to:
- Restricted Stock Units (RSUs)
- Profit Share and/or Incentive Bonus
- Medical, Prescription, Vision, and Dental insurance for employees and dependents (Wolfe pays 80% of premium)
- Short-Term Disability Insurance (Wolfe pays 100% of premium)
- Voluntary Long-Term Disability Insurance, Life Insurance, Critical Illness Insurance, Accident Insurance, and Hospital Indemnity coverage
- PTO (vacation and sick time)
- Corporate Holidays and Floating Holidays
- 401(k)
- Employee recognition program
- Charitable Donation to a charity of your choice yearly
- Employee Referral Bonus
- Tuition Reimbursement
- Internal Training and Information sessions
- Family Picnic, Holiday Party, and other outings
- Internal Culture Club
