Job Title:
Lead DevOps Engineer

Role Overview:

The Lead DevOps Engineer is a hands-on technical leader responsible for building and operating production-scale platform engineering capabilities on Kubernetes (Amazon EKS/GKE). This role drives reliability, scalability, security, and developer productivity through standardized platforms, automation, and modern cloud-native practices.
This role combines deep technical execution with leadership, owning platform architecture, enterprise DevOps capabilities, and developer experience initiatives, including Backstage-based internal platforms and AI-enabled delivery systems.

This is a Hybrid Position located in Frisco, TX. We are only considering candidates within a
commutable distance to the Frisco office. You will be required to be onsite on an as-needed
basis; when not working onsite, you will work from your home office.

About The Role:

• Lead the design, implementation, and operation of large-scale Kubernetes platforms (EKS/GKE) with multi-region architectures ensuring high availability, scalability, and resilience.
• Own Kubernetes lifecycle management including provisioning, upgrades, patching, scaling, and disaster recovery readiness.
• Design, build, operate, and harden EKS clusters using Karpenter, Cilium, Istio/Envoy, and IRSA/Pod Identity.
• Drive multi-cloud platform strategy and modernization initiatives.
• Design and implement enterprise CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions, Jenkins, and Harness to improve deployment frequency and release quality.
• Build reusable Infrastructure as Code (Terraform) modules and platform automation frameworks.
• Implement AI-driven capabilities for deployment risk analysis, failure prediction, anomaly detection, release scoring, and automated RCA insights.
• Own and drive adoption of Backstage as the internal developer platform, including software templates, golden paths, scaffolding workflows, and service catalog.
• Improve developer productivity, onboarding experience, and self-service capabilities across engineering teams.
• Implement secure software supply chain practices and integrate DevSecOps controls into CI/CD pipelines.
• Enforce policy-as-code (OPA) and ensure platform security posture and continuous compliance.
• Define platform health metrics, SLIs/SLOs, and implement operational dashboards and observability practices.
• Leverage AI for platform health insights, cost optimization, and predictive capacity planning.
• Lead reliability engineering practices including incident response, postmortems, and automated remediation.
• Develop and execute upgrade and patching strategies with minimal downtime and operational risk.
• Provide hands-on technical leadership and guiding platform engineering best practices.
• Lead architecture reviews, drive platform governance, and ensure cross-functional alignment with engineering, security, and SRE teams.

About You:

• 8+ years in DevOps / Platform Engineering.
• Strong hands-on experience with Kubernetes (EKS/GKE) in production at scale.
• Deep expertise in Terraform and CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, Jenkins, Harness).
• Experience with Backstage developer platform (templates, scaffolding, service catalog).
• Strong programming skills in Golang or Python.
• Knowledge of cloud-native networking, RBAC, autoscaling, and cluster operations.
• Experience implementing DevSecOps and secure supply chain practices.
• Contributions to Backstage OSS or CNCF ecosystem.
• Experience with Service mesh (Istio / Envoy), Cilium.
• Experience with API gateways (Envoy Gateway, Kong).
• Experience with Kafka architecture and operations.
• Experience with JFrog Artifactory / Curation or similar artifact governance tools.
• Exposure to AI/ML-enabled DevOps and developer productivity tooling.
• Experience driving engineering transformation initiatives at enterprise scale.
• Strong communication, documentation, and cross-team collaboration skills.
• Cloud architecture certifications (AWS/GCP Solutions Architect) is a plus.
• Kubernetes certifications (CKA, CKAD, CKS) is a plus.
• DevOps & Infrastructure: HashiCorp Terraform Associate or equivalent CI/CD certification is a plus.

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Company Benefits and Perks:

We work hard to embrace diversity and inclusion and encourage everyone at McAfee to bring their authentic selves to work every day. We offer a variety of social programs, flexible work hours and family-friendly benefits to all of our employees.

• Bonus Program
• 401k Retirement Plan
• Medical, Dental, Vision, Basic Life, Short Term Disability and Long-Term Disability Coverage
• Paid Parental Leave
• Support for Community Involvement
• 14 Paid Company Holidays
• Unlimited Paid Time Off for Exempt Employees
• 96 Hours of Sick Time and 120 Hours of Vacation for Non-Exempt Employees Accrued Each Year

The starting pay range for this position is $107,430.00-$176,490.00. McAfee takes into consideration an individual's skillset, experience and location in making final salary determinations. For further details, please discuss with the Talent Acquisition Partner.