Senior Devops Engineer

TechBlocks

• $110K — $130K *
Information Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 7+ years in DevOps engineering with a focus on CI/CD and Kubernetes
  • Expertise with GCP services (e.g., GKE, IAM)
  • Proficient in monitoring tools like Prometheus and Grafana
  • Solid experience in using CI/CD tools (Jenkins, GitHub Actions)
  • Strong background in infrastructure as code (IaC) with Terraform
  • Knowledge of security tools such as Vault and Trivy
  • Experience in incident management and on-call responsibilities

Responsibilities

  • Design and implement end-to-end CI/CD pipelines for production deployments
  • Define and manage branching strategies for development teams
  • Automate infrastructure provisioning across multiple environments
  • Implement and maintain container orchestration strategies on GKE
  • Manage secret lifecycle and integrate with CI/CD workflows
  • Integrate DevSecOps tools into CI/CD processes
  • Collaborate with leads to review deployment readiness and quality gates
  • Monitor infrastructure health and implement auto-scaling strategies

Benefits

  • Collaborative team environment
  • Opportunity to mentor junior DevOps engineers
  • Flexibility between Dallas, TX and Toronto, ON locations
  • Comprehensive support for cloud infrastructure management
  • Access to advanced tools and technologies for deployment automation
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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