Title: Senior DevOps Engineer
Location: USA or Canada (Eastern timezone)
Experience: Senior (IC4)
Job Function: Engineering
Employment Type: Full-Time
Industry: Computer & Network Security
Job SummaryThe Senior DevOps Engineer uses expertise in modern development tools and practices to streamline developer operations and support software releases. By encouraging innovation and collaboration, this role supports business objectives through automation, efficient infrastructure architecture, and a focus on reliability, availability and security, helping to ensure integration and delivery of software products.
Responsible for building and maintaining the tools, processes, and environments that enable efficient software delivery. This role emphasizes automating workflows, containerizing applications, virtualization and hypervisors, implementing CI/CD pipelines, and Infrastructure as Code.
This role has a dual responsibility of building and maintaining on-premise as well as cloud-based infrastructure. A successful candidate should ideally have a deep knowledge of both, but we can also consider a candidate who is deep in one area and curious about and willing to learn the other.
Some of the technologies we work on include: Azure, AKS, Kubernetes, OpenShift, GitLab, ArgoCD, Artifactory, Ansible
Job Responsibilities - Lead the design and implementation of infrastructure automation and deployment processes.
- Architect and manage scalable containerization and orchestration solutions for applications.
- Drive continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) improvements to optimize workflows.
- Monitor and enhance system performance, availability, and security through proactive measures.
- Collaborate closely with cross-functional teams to improve automation and deployment strategies.
- Implement and maintain Infrastructure as Code (IaC) for consistent and reproducible environments.
- Mentor junior engineers, providing technical guidance and fostering skill development.
Minimum Qualifications, Education, and Skills- Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or another technical field (or equivalent experience).
- 4 years or more of relevant work experience in DevOps, Platform Engineering, or IT infrastructure.
- Extensive knowledge of DevOps and Platform Engineering industry trends.
- Deep understanding of scripting, version control, and infrastructure best practices.
- Comprehensive knowledge of system performance, security, and reliability.
- Strategic thinking, exceptional problem-solving abilities, high-level proficiency in relevant tools and technologies.
- Advanced skills in infrastructure automation and deployment.
- Expertise in containerization and orchestration, in particular Kubernetes.
- Experience with optimizing and scaling CI/CD pipelines.
- Ability to lead complex projects, drive strategic initiatives, and influence decision-making.
- Strong problem-solving and troubleshooting skills.
- Ability to mentor junior team members and lead initiatives. #LI-NA1
Compensation Salary will be commensurate with experience.
Culture, Career Opportunities and Benefits We build teams that continually strive to get better than the day before. You will be challenged daily and given opportunities to grow personally and professionally. We balance autonomy and structure to create an entrepreneurial environment to spur creativity and new ideas.
Here are just some of the initiatives that make our culture special:
- Second Fridays (a company-wide day off on the second Friday of every month minus November and December due to the Holiday schedule). Please note that this benefit is subject to change.
- Comprehensive benefit coverage globally.
- Paid Parental Leave is available to new parents. Structure varies based on regional/government requirements. In regions where government-paid leave doesn't exist, like in the U.S., the company offers generous paid parental leave, along with comprehensive adoption and fertility support.
- Competitive time off globally.
- Dedicated employee-focused ambassadors via Key Contributors & Culture Committees.
- DIVERSE Commitment, a call to action for a more inclusive and diverse future in business, society, and technology.
- The Keyfactor Alliance Program to support DEIB efforts.
- Wellbeing resources, wellness allowance, mindfulness app free membership, Wellness Wednesdays.
- Global Volunteer Day, company non-profit matching, and 3 volunteer days off.
- Monthly Talent development and Cross Functional meetings to support professional development.
- Regular All Hands meetings - followed by group gatherings.
