Senior DevOps Engineer

NinjaOne is hiring a Senior DevOps Engineer to build and operate release and deployment pipelines that move code safely and predictably into production. The role focuses on CI/CD, deployment automation, Terraform-based infrastructure as code, and supporting a multi-cloud Kubernetes environment in partnership with engineering, QA, Security, and Corporate IT.

Responsibilities:

• Build and improve CI/CD pipelines: Develop and maintain our CI/CD framework, with particular depth on the CD side: artifact promotion, environment promotion, deployment gating, and automated rollback, with Terraform runs, plan reviews, and policy checks built into the pipeline
• Implement deployment strategies: Build progressive delivery patterns (blue/green, canary, rolling) with automated health checks, gating, and rollback, all defined as code
• Automate release management: Build tooling for release orchestration across services and regions, including scheduling, change tracking, and feature-flag-driven rollout
• Write and maintain Terraform: Design reusable, well-versioned modules and manage remote state, workspaces, and environment strategy so teams can safely self-serve infrastructure changes through code review
• Support our cloud-agnostic IaC foundation: Build secure, compliant infrastructure in AWS today, and help shape provider-agnostic module patterns and standards that extend cleanly to Azure and GCP, with Kubernetes as the common runtime
• Add governance and guardrails: Integrate policy-as-code, security and compliance scanning, and cost checks (e.g., Sentinel, OPA, Checkov, Infracost) into the Terraform pipeline so changes are safe, auditable, and cost-aware by default
• Enable other teams: Partner with engineering teams to migrate existing infrastructure to Terraform, and build documentation and golden-path templates so teams outside DevOps can author and own their own IaC
• Monitor and support delivery: Watch deployment pipelines, release health, and Terraform plan/apply activity. Act as a technical escalation point for production support during and after business hours, including incident response, rollback, and remediation
• Other duties as needed

Requirements:

• 7+ years in a cloud-based DevOps environment, with deep, current AWS expertise and a strong emphasis on release engineering, deployment automation, and IaC
• Hands-on, production experience with Azure and/or GCP in addition to AWS
• 4+ years of production Terraform: module authoring, remote state management (e.g., S3/DynamoDB backends), workspaces, provider version management, and safe plan/apply workflows integrated into CI/CD
• Experience with Kubernetes (or ECS) container orchestration and deployment tooling such as Helm and Kustomize, including provisioning clusters and node groups via Terraform
• Experience with Terraform in a multi-team environment, including state design, module registries, versioning policy, and access control
• Deep experience designing and operating continuous delivery pipelines (not just CI), including progressive rollout (blue/green, canary, rolling) and automated rollback
• Familiarity with Terraform ecosystem tooling such as Terragrunt, Terraform Cloud/Enterprise, Atlantis, Sentinel/OPA, or Checkov is a plus
• A track record of reducing deployment lead time, change failure rate, and time to recover through automation and codified infrastructure
• Experience helping other teams adopt IaC through documentation, golden-path templates, and migrations
• Strong cloud operations skills, with a focus on the scalability, reliability, and maintainability of cloud-native applications and their Terraform-managed infrastructure
• Comfortable with agile tools (Jira, Confluence) and version control (Git, BitBucket) for both application code and IaC
• 5+ years working with *nix operating systems (Linux, MacOS, BSD variants, IBM AIX)
• 4+ years of scripting in languages such as Shell, Go, Python, PERL, or Tcl/Tk, used to build deployment tooling, automation, and Terraform wrappers
• 4+ years of production monitoring, alerting, and deployment observability, including managing change and configuration and detecting drift against Terraform-managed state
• This position is NOT eligible for Visa sponsorship
• Experience operating on two or more clouds is preferred
• Familiarity with provider-agnostic module patterns is a plus
• We prefer candidates who have owned the CD/release side, including infrastructure provisioning
• CircleCI experience is a plus