Senior Dev Ops Engineer

Description

This senior technical role spans infrastructure, reliability, software delivery, and cost optimization, focusing on designing and maintaining hybrid environments (cloud and on-prem) with scalability, security, and resilience. It drives automation, CI/CD, and rapid incident resolution while championing FinOps principles to balance performance and cost through cloud governance. Success depends on collaboration across teams and continuous improvement, with mentoring responsibilities included.

• Bridge gaps between development, infrastructure, IT support, operations, and other teams to ensure seamless delivery.
• Implement cost optimization strategies (rightsizing).
• Foster a culture of knowledge sharing and collaboration.
• Communicate technical insights effectively to stakeholders.
• Collaborate with development teams to integrate automated testing and deployment.
• Automate incident response, monitoring, and alerting.
• Establish governance policies for cloud resource provisioning and cost accountability.
• Participate in a 24x7 on-call rotation for incident management.
• Provision and manage on-premise infrastructure in data centers, including servers, storage, and networking.
• Automate repetitive tasks to reduce manual intervention.
• Diagnose and develop fixes to be implemented quickly and efficiently for production incidents.
• Champion a culture of continuous integration, delivery, and improvement.
• Provide technical guidance and mentorship to other DevOps Engineers.
• Implement cost optimization strategies (rightsizing, reserved instances, autoscaling).
• Monitor application performance, latency, and resource utilization.
• Implement security best practices across the infrastructure stack.
• Build and maintain virtual machine templates for consistent deployments.
• Advocate for FinOps principles within engineering teams to balance performance and cost.
• Respond to cost anomalies and recommend corrective actions.
• Create actionable alerts and dashboards for system and cost performance.
• Optimize infrastructure resource allocation, performance, scalability, and fault tolerance across hybrid environments.
• Develop dashboards and reports to provide visibility into cloud spend for stakeholders.
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines for efficient software delivery.
• Manage identity and access solutions, including Microsoft Entra ID (Azure AD), and Okta.
• Monitor and analyze cloud usage and costs across AWS and Azure.
• Collaborate with finance and engineering teams to forecast budgets and track variances.
• Enforce mandatory tagging for cost allocation and governance.
• Perform vulnerability assessments and manage access controls.
• Design, deploy, and maintain infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code (e.g., Terraform) for cloud environments.
• Define and measure SLIs/SLOs for critical services.
• Set up monitoring tools to track system health across cloud and on-prem environments.
• Ensure compliance with industry standards (GDPR, SOC 1, SOC 2, etc.).
• Manage identity and access solutions, including Active Directory and Okta.
• Implement and test disaster recovery strategies for hybrid environments.
• Maintain and patch systems, ensuring compliance and high availability.

Requirements

Preferred candidate to be located in Spokane, WA or Boston, MA.

Immigration sponsorship is not available for this role.

Public Cloud (Azure / AWS)

• Minimum 7 years of experience in Information Technology
• Advanced knowledge and expertise in DevOps practices
• Advanced knowledge with Microsoft Windows, Active Directory
• At least 7 years of systems engineering, software engineering or DevOps engineering experience
• May consider a combination of relevant experience with educational and other skills and abilities in lieu of educational requirements
• Familiarity with ITIL framework
• Advance experience with VMWare, Enterprise Class Servers and Storage
• Ability to support/oversee multiple projects simultaneously
• Ability to speak French and Spanish languages are a plus
• Expert in coding and scripting (i.e. PowerShell, Python, Perl, Ruby, etc.)
• Advanced knowledge of firewalls, load balancers, VLANs, managed switches and routers
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills with all levels of management
• Master’s Degree preferred in one of the following fields; computer science or related field
• Experience with ISO/SSAE16/NIST or equivalent compliance is preferred
• Experience with Microsoft Office suite of products
• Expert with cloud services (AWS or Azure)
• Azure/AWS Certifications preferred
• Up-to-date on latest industry trends; able to articulate trends and potential clearly and confidently
• Advanced experience using infrastructure automation tools such as Terraform, Git, Chef, Puppet, and Ansible
• Excellent troubleshooting and analytical skills
• Bachelor's Degree required in one of the following fields; computer science or related field
• Advance experience with containerization
• Background with Agile, Scrum, and Lean are a plus
• Client relations skills
• Advanced experience with vulnerability scanners and remediation.

Benefits

Private Cloud (Data Center)

The target pay range for this position is $111,000-$156,000.

Training + Development

Interview process

Visa Sponsorship

Security clearance