DevOps Engineer II

Wilcore Technologies, Inc. is hiring a DevOps Engineer II to own the architecture, strategy, and reliability of automated deployment pipelines and infrastructure. The role sets technical standards, leads production incident response, mentors engineers, and partners across teams to improve security, scalability, and delivery.

Responsibilities:

• Architect and drive the technical strategy for CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure-as-code practices, and deployment automation across teams
• Design scalable, resilient, and secure infrastructure solutions, including disaster recovery and capacity planning
• Lead incident response and root cause analysis for critical production issues, driving long-term remediation rather than short-term fixes
• Set and enforce standards, best practices, and documentation for infrastructure, security, and deployment processes across the DevOps function
• Mentor and provide technical guidance to DevOps Engineer I team members, including code/config reviews and skill development
• Evaluate, select, and integrate new tools, platforms, and technologies to improve reliability, security, and delivery velocity
• Partner with security teams to define and implement DevSecOps standards across pipelines and infrastructure
• Collaborate with engineering and product leadership to align infrastructure strategy with business priorities
• Drive cost optimization and efficiency initiatives across cloud infrastructure
• Serve as an escalation point and technical authority during high-severity production incidents, including on-call rotations

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience
• 5+ years of experience in DevOps, system administration, or infrastructure automation, including experience designing infrastructure solutions rather than solely implementing predefined specifications
• Demonstrated experience architecting and implementing CI/CD pipeline strategy (e.g., Jenkins, GitLab CI, Azure DevOps Pipelines, GitHub Actions) across multiple teams or products
• Advanced proficiency with Linux/Unix operating systems and scripting languages such as Bash, Python, or PowerShell
• Demonstrated experience designing and provisioning cloud infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CloudFormation, ARM, or Bicep) at a system/architecture level
• Advanced experience with containerization (Docker) and orchestration (Kubernetes), including designing microservice deployment strategies
• Strong understanding of networking, security, and system monitoring concepts, with experience defining monitoring/alerting strategy rather than just responding to alerts
• Experience leading or owning incident response and root cause analysis for production systems
• US Citizenship, ability to obtain and maintain required security clearance
• Certifications such as AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Professional, Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA), or equivalent advanced-level certification
• Experience mentoring or providing technical guidance to junior DevOps or infrastructure engineers
• Experience with configuration management tools like Ansible, Puppet, or Chef at scale
• Experience with database management, optimization, and infrastructure cost optimization (FinOps)
• Experience working in Agile or Scrum environments in a technical leadership capacity
• Advanced experience with logging and monitoring platforms such as Prometheus, Grafana, ELK stack, Datadog, or Splunk, including designing observability strategy
• Experience with multi-cloud or hybrid-cloud environments