Senior DevOps Engineer

Role Overview

• Integrate simple to complex Java applications in multiple environments, the applications can be a combination of in-house developed or vendor-delivered applications.
• Formulate and enforce application deployment and integration standards.
• Design, develop, implement, and support the runtime architecture for of complex system landscapes.
• Develop, implement, and maintain the environment by automating deployment and various configurations.
• Actively participates in project meetings and provides input to design and implementation of middleware solutions.
• Actively participates in leadership meetings to provide architectural designs, diagrams and recommendations that impact technology decisions made throughout the company.
• Facilitating the product teams in planning, estimating and non-functional requirements on projects.
• Proactively analyze the entire environment and recommend, develop, and implement improvements.
• Be a champion for process improvements, fostering innovative thinking .
• Performs periodic reviews of the technical operating environment and ensures adherence to corporate standards.
• Where standards are unclear, or undefined, they assist in the creation or updating of policies and procedures.
• Takes personal ownership for problems and independently performs complex troubleshooting, root-cause analysis, solution development and implementation.
• Research modern technologies to see where they could fit within our SDLC to help with smooth deployments while increasing uptime and reducing customer impact.
• Maintains clear and concise documentation representative of the operating environment including Architectural diagrams, policies, procedures, and standards.
• Is extraordinarily strong at documentation.
• Acts as the technical lead to the rest of the Middleware team.
• Develops, maintains, and evaluates Disaster Recovery plans.
• Willingness to work overtime, weekends, and irregular hours.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Engineering, or related field—or equivalent experience.
• 5+ years of DevOps engineering experience, with at least 2 years in a senior or lead role.
• Proven experience with CI/CD tooling (GitLab CI, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, etc.) and release automation.
• Strong IaC skills (Terraform, AWS CDK, CloudFormation) and experience with multi-account cloud patterns.
• Demonstrated observability experience (Open Telemetry, tracing, metrics, logging — Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, CloudWatch).
• Hands-on experience with application servers and middleware technologies (IBM WebSphere, Apache Tomcat, Glassfish, Payara, WebLogic).
• Experience with application performance monitoring, disaster recovery planning, and high availability solutions.
• Solid understanding of SSL, load balancers, DNS, and networking fundamentals.
• Experience with testing and debugging tools ( LoadRunner, RFHUTIL, JUnit).
• Familiarity with Agile methodologies and SDLC processes.
• Strong documentation, architectural diagramming, and technical leadership skills.
• Security-first mindset: integrating SAST/DAST, secrets scanning, OIDC/OAuth and RBAC into pipelines and runtime.

Tech Stack

• Apache
• AWS
• Cloud
• DNS
• Grafana
• Java
• Jenkins
• JUnit
• Prometheus
• SDLC
• Terraform

Benefits

• Relocation Eligibility: Available