DevOps Engineer

York Solutions, LLC is seeking a Senior Software Engineer who can operate effectively across both platform engineering and application development. The ideal candidate will have a strong understanding of infrastructure and DevOps concepts, and will be responsible for designing and implementing solutions while contributing to automation and developer workflows.

Responsibilities:

• Operate effectively across both platform engineering and application development
• Design and implement solutions end-to-end
• Contribute to automation, developer workflows, and platform capabilities
• Leverage AI tools to enhance productivity
• Write, review, and troubleshoot code independently
• Designing, delivering, and supporting production systems
• Deploying, monitoring, and troubleshooting container-based applications in Kubernetes clusters
• Design and maintain CI/CD pipelines
• Building or supporting shared platforms, tooling, or paved roads
• Leveraging AI tools to enhance developer workflows
• Comfortable operating platform services, diagnosing issues, and automating workflows in Linux-based environments
• Designing and evolving platforms or shared services for scalability, resiliency, and fault tolerance
• Designing internal APIs with an emphasis on consistency, versioning, and backward compatibility
• Hands-on experience with monitoring, logging, tracing, and alerting
• Participating in on-call rotations and leading or contributing to incident response
• Defining, managing, and evolving infrastructure using Terraform

Requirements:

• Strong software engineering foundation
• Experience designing, delivering, and supporting production systems, with a focus on reliability, maintainability, and long-term operability
• Kubernetes expertise
• Extensive hands-on experience with deploying, monitoring, and trouble-shooting container-based applications in Kubernetes clusters (OpenShift preferred)
• CI/CD & developer workflow automation
• Proven ability to design and maintain CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions preferred), templates, and automation
• Developer platform & enablement mindset
• Experience building or supporting shared platforms, tooling, or paved roads that reduce friction for application teams and encourage best practices
• Applied AI for developer productivity
• Experience leveraging AI tools (e.g., prompt engineering, agent frameworks) to enhance developer workflows, automation, or self-service capabilities
• Linux & command-line proficiency
• Comfortable operating platform services, diagnosing issues, and automating workflows in Linux-based environments using the CLI
• Distributed systems & platform architecture
• Experience designing and evolving platforms or shared services for scalability, resiliency, and fault tolerance
• API & integration design
• Experience designing internal APIs with an emphasis on consistency, versioning, and backward compatibility
• Observability
• Hands-on experience with monitoring, logging, tracing, and alerting (Datadog preferred), with a focus on actionable signals and reduction of alert fatigue
• Production ownership & on-call participation
• Experience owning platform services in production, participating in on-call rotations, and leading or contributing to incident response
• Infrastructure as Code (Terraform)
• Experience defining, managing, and evolving infrastructure using Terraform to enable repeatability and safe change
• Internal developer portals & self-service tooling
• Experience with Backstage or similar frameworks for enabling discoverability, templates, and standardized workflows
• GitOps practices & tooling
• Experience implementing GitOps workflows using tools such as Argo CD, Argo Rollouts, or equivalent solutions
• Cloud-native development (AWS)
• Hands-on experience developing and running platform or application services on AWS
• Frontend or UX experience for developer tools
• Experience building UIs for internal tools, dashboards, or portals; sensitivity to usability and developer experience