Senior DevOps Engineer

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IQ Clarity has an Austin, TX based client looking to hire an experienced Senior DevOps Engineer.

**No C2C or Sponsorship available. Must be US or Green Card holder**

The Senior DevOps Engineer will enhance and maintain a highly configurable, multi-tenant, enterprise class, SaaS solution that incorporates cross-organizational collaborative workflows, data integration, and a rich user interface built on a complex data model. This role will work primarily on driving Operational Excellence and improving our team's Developer Experience through automation, visibility, and continuous improvement.

Key Responsibilities:

• Champion DevOps best practices by creating a culture of change, gathering continuous feedback, and driving efficiency through automation.
• Manage and improve CI / CD pipelines and infrastructure as Code (IaC), focusing on engineering efficiencies, quality, and security, to accelerate deployment cycles
• Collaborate engineering teams to ensure operational excellence
• Ensure that all infrastructure, systems, and services are scalable, secure, and cost effective.
• Own observability and incident management with KPIs to measure effectiveness and drive continuous improvement initiatives
• Security first mindset for infrastructure, tools, software, and SaaS vendors
• Assist in diagnosing and resolving customer issues, offering support for debugging and remediating issues
• Participate in Agile/Scrum practices such as sprint planning, daily stand-ups, and retrospectives as well as managing project timelines and deliverables effectively
• Provide 24/7/365 coverage to support internal and external customers
  
  

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or equivalent experience in related field
• 6+ years of DevOps experience
• Adept at designing and architecting solutions in self-hosted, private / public cloud, and hybrid environments (Rackspace, AWS, Azure)
• Previous experience implementing DevOps best practices, tools, and methodologies, including CI / CD pipelines (TeamCity, GitLabs, GitHub Actions, Jenkins) and IaC (Ansible, Terraform, AWS CloudFormation / CDK)
• Management of SaaS applications (Java, Spring Boot, Oracle), including monitoring, incident management, and triaging issues
• Deep understanding of observability tools for monitoring, logging, and analysis (Datadog, Sumo Logic, New Relic, Prometheus, Grafana, ELK/EFK)
• Knowledge of networking principles and how it applies to data flow and security
• Experience debugging complex applications in Linux environments
• History of mentoring and growing effective engineering teams
• Worked within Agile and Lean software development teams.
  
  

Qualifications/Skills/Soft Skills:

• Results oriented, product focused, and at ease in an environment requiring the ability to quickly and appropriately prioritize conflicting demands
• Strong analytical skills, and excellent verbal and written communications skills
• High degree of initiative consistently demonstrated by the active ownership of complex problems through their successful resolution
• Team player eager to work closely with, learn from, and mentor others while continually improving self and team
• Innately curious about new technologies and their practical application in a startup environment
• Flexibility and willingness to pitch in and wear more than one hat in a dynamic organization