Staff DevOps Engineer

SONIFI Solutions, Inc. is seeking a Staff DevOps Engineer to enhance their cloud infrastructure and automation capabilities. This role involves leading the evolution of DevOps practices, modernizing CI/CD processes, and collaborating with various teams to ensure reliable software delivery across diverse environments.

Responsibilities:

• Design, build, and evolve a shared DevOps platform, treating CI/CD, runners, and automation as basic services
• Own and advance our GitLab CI/CD ecosystem, including group-level pipelines, reusable templates, runner strategy, and execution environments
• Establish standardized CI/CD patterns that improve reliability, security, and developer experience while allowing flexibility where needed
• Design, provision, and operate cloud infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code (e.g., CloudFormation)
• Automate operational workflows to reduce manual effort, operational friction, and deployment risk
• Design secure networking and infrastructure patterns aligned with industry best practices
• Identify opportunities for performance improvements, scalability, and cost optimization improvements
• Integrate automated quality and security checks into CI/CD pipelines to enable consistent enforcement of standards
• Partner with Security to deliver secure-by-default pipelines with minimal developer friction
• Ensure pipelines and deployed systems are observable through logs, metrics, alerts, and deployment health signals
• Act as an escalation point for complex issues across systems, networks, and infrastructure across hybrid and AWS cloud environments
• Serve as a Staff-level technical leader, influencing DevOps standards and architectural direction across teams without direct authority
• Partner with Engineering Managers, Architects, and Operations to evolve DevOps practices incrementally
• Lead adoption of standardized DevOps practices across legacy and modern services without disrupting customers
• Create documentation, reference implementations, and enablement materials to support adoption
• Mentor engineers and help raise overall DevOps maturity across the organization

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in computer science / software engineering or equivalent degree and 6+ years of experience in DevOps, Platform Engineering, with demonstrated impact at scale
• Advanced knowledge of Linux and/or cloud computing platforms (AWS preferred) is required
• Identifies and provides recommendations for enhancing performance, assisting in implementation, and performing infrastructure cost analysis and optimization
• Hands-on experience designing and operating CI/CD platforms at scale, preferably with GitLab CI/CD
• Strong experience with Infrastructure as Code and automated environment provisioning
• Proficiency in scripting and automation (Python, Go, and/or Shell required)
• Experience with containerization (Docker) and orchestration platforms (ECS, EKS or Kubernetes)
• Proven ability to design, analyze, and troubleshoot large-scale, distributed systems