Senior DevOps Engineer (R-19897)

The Senior DevOps Engineer defines and governs cloud platform, DevOps, SRE, security, and AI enablement for D&B's Solutions portfolio. The Senior DevOps Engineer will lead the design and operation of highly available, secure, cloud-native platforms on GCP and enterprise cloud services-driving modernization, automation, observability, compliance, disaster recovery, and reliability so engineering teams can deliver faster. Essential Responsibilities: • Lead design, modernization, and governance of enterprise cloud platforms on GCP. • Establish reference architectures, IaC standards (Terraform), and reusable patterns. • Define multi-region, HA, and disaster recovery architectures; lead legacy-to-cloud migrations. • Own FinOps, cost optimization, and cloud operational efficiency. • Build and operate large-scale GKE environments (Standard and Autopilot). • Deliver core platform capabilities: service mesh, API gateway, secrets, container security, networking, identity federation, and multi-region deployment. • Standardize Helm-based deployments and drive resilience through self-healing automation. • Define enterprise CI/CD standards and fully automated pipelines across Dev, QA, Stage, and Production. • Implement release governance, progressive deployment, guardrails, and rollback. • Improve engineering productivity through automation and self-service platform capabilities. • Own reliability for critical customer-facing applications: SLIs, SLOs, error budgets, and availability targets. • Lead incident response and executive communications during critical events, root cause analysis, post-incident reviews, and automated remediation. • Champion resilience testing and a reliability-first engineering culture. • Own observability strategy across infrastructure, applications, databases, APIs, and AI services. • Build unified dashboards, proactive monitoring, anomaly detection, and executive operational metrics. • Partner with Security, Architecture, and Risk teams on secure-by-design platforms. • Implement IAM governance, workload identity, secrets management, encryption, WAF, and network segmentation. • Embed DevSecOps in CI/CD; support SOC2, security assessments, and regulatory audits. • Lead infrastructure and operations for AI-powered and agentic products. • Enable secure deployment and governance of generative AI, agent platforms, MCP servers, RAG/vector workloads, and AI APIs. • Establish AI observability, lifecycle management, and enterprise-ready deployment patterns. • Partner with Data Engineering on reliability, performance, backup/DR, and operational support for core data services (PostgreSQL, Cloud SQL, search, messaging, and pipelines). • Mentor DevOps, SRE, cloud, and software engineers; set standards and lead architecture reviews. Skills and/or Certifications Needed: • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering or related field • 8+ years in Cloud Engineering, DevOps, Platform Engineering or SRE. • 5+ years leading major enterprise platform initiatives. • Proven experience operating large-scale production systems on GCP and/or AWS. • Expert-level Terraform; strong Kubernetes (GKE), Docker, Helm, cloud networking, API gateways, and cloud security. • Enterprise CI/CD pipeline experience (Harness, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, or GitLab). • Strong automation skills (Python, Bash, or similar). • Experience with PostgreSQL, cloud databases, distributed systems, production incidents, and RCA. • Strong understanding of security, compliance, and governance frameworks. • GCP Professional Cloud Architect / DevOps Engineer, AWS Solutions Architect Professional, or Terraform Associate qualification is preferred. • Experience with observability tooling (e.g., Splunk), GitOps, and AI platform technologies (LangChain/LangGraph, MCP, vector databases, AI governance) is preferred. • Background in regulated or enterprise SaaS environments is an advantage. • Show an ownership mindset in everything you do; be a problem solver, be curious and be inspired to take action, be proactive, seek ways to collaborate and connect with people and teams in support of driving success. • Continuous growth mindset, keep learning through social experiences and relationships with stakeholders, experts, colleagues and mentors as well as widen and broaden your competencies through structural courses and programs. • Where applicable, fluency in English and languages relevant to the working market. $120,300 - $202,300 a year Benefits We Offer • Generous paid time off in your first year, increasing with tenure. • Up to 16 weeks 100% paid parental leave after one year of employment. • Paid sick time to care for yourself or family members. • Education assistance and extensive training resources. • Do Good Program: Paid volunteer days & donation matching. • Competitive 401k with company matching. • Health & wellness benefits, including discounted Wellhub membership rates. • Medical, dental & vision insurance for you, spouse/partner & dependents.