Senior Devops Engineer

TechBlocks

• $120K — $145K *
Enterprise Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 7+ years in DevOps engineering with CI/CD and Kubernetes expertise
  • Proficient with GCP services like GKE and Compute Engine
  • Strong experience in monitoring tools such as Prometheus and Grafana
  • Skilled in CI/CD tools including Jenkins and GitHub Actions
  • Knowledge of infrastructure as code using Terraform and Helm
  • Familiarity with security practices and tools like Vault and Trivy
  • On-call incident management experience with RCA and SLOs

Responsibilities

  • Design and implement CI/CD pipelines for seamless production deployments
  • Define development workflow templates and branching strategies
  • Automate infrastructure provisioning across multiple environments
  • Manage and implement container orchestration strategies on GKE
  • Integrate DevSecOps tools into continuous workflows
  • Monitor infrastructure health and plan for capacity using monitoring tools
  • Drive process documentation and mentor junior DevOps engineers

Benefits

  • Opportunity to work in a collaborative DevOps environment
  • Hands-on experience with leading cloud technologies and tools
  • Mentorship and professional development opportunities
  • Focus on innovative automation practices
  • Flexible work location between Dallas and Toronto
Full Job Description
Role: Senior Devops Engineer

Location: Dallas, TX / Toronto, ON

Job Overview

The DevOps Engineer is part of the DevOps team responsible for managing our infrastructure on GCP and collaborating with application developers to automate and expedite the testing, release, and deployment of applications into a runtime environment in a timely and dependable manner.

The ideal candidate will deeply understand cloud infrastructure and have experience with automation and deployment tools. You will work closely with the development and operations teams to design and implement infrastructure solutions that are scalable, secure, and highly

Roles and Responsibilities
• Design and implement end-to-end CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, GitHub Actions, and Argo CD for production-grade deployments.
• Define branching strategies and workflow templates for development teams.
• Automate infrastructure provisioning using Terraform, Helm, and Kubernetes manifests across multiple environments.
• Implement and maintain container orchestration strategies on GKE, including Helm-based deployments.
• Manage secrets lifecycle using Vault and integrate with CI/CD for secure deployments.
• Integrate DevSecOps tools like Trivy, SonarQube, and JFrog into CI/CD workflows.
• Collaborate with engineering leads to review deployment readiness and ensure quality gates are met.
• Monitor infrastructure health and capacity planning using Prometheus, Grafana, and Datadog; implement alerting rules.
• Implement auto-scaling, self-healing, and other resilience strategies in Kubernetes.
  • Drive process documentation, review peer automation scripts, and provide mentoring to junior DevOps engineers


Experience Required:

7+ years in DevOps engineering roles with proven expertise in CI/CD, infrastructure automation, and Kubernetes.

Mandatory:
  • Cloud: GCP (GKE, Compute Engine, Load Balancing, VPN, IAM)
  • Monitoring: Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, Datadog
  • CI/CD: Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Argo CD
  • Containers & Orchestration: Kubernetes, Docker
  • Incident Management: On-call, RCA, SLIs/SLOs
  • IaC: Terraform, Helm
  • Security: Vault, Shared VPC, Trivy, OWASP concepts
  • Incident Tools: PagerDuty, OpsGenie

Nice to Have:
  • GCP Monitoring, Service Mesh (Istio), Pub/Sub, API Gateway - Kong
  • Advanced scripting (Python, Bash, Node.js)
  • Skywalking, Rancher, Jira, Freshservice
  • GCP Certification is Plus
  • GCP Spanner, MongoDB (basic)

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