Senior DevOps Engineer

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We're looking for an experienced Senior DevOps Engineer to help drive the reliability, scalability, and efficiency of our infrastructure and deployment processes. In this role, you'll tackle complex technical challenges, designing and implementing solutions that improve our system architecture and developer workflows. You'll play a pivotal role in guiding projects from design through production support, and you'll mentor junior engineers in DevOps best practices. 

What You’ll Do 

• Oversee the reliability, performance, and security of critical production services from design to deployment, ensuring they meet our uptime and performance targets. 

• Collaborate with development, QA, and product teams to build and maintain resilient infrastructure and efficient deployment pipelines. 

• Automate infrastructure provisioning and software deployments using Infrastructure as Code and CI/CD tools, reducing manual work and errors. 

• Participate in and improve our 24×7 on-call process, swiftly troubleshooting incidents and performing root cause analysis to prevent recurrence. 

• Document and standardize processes and configurations, sharing knowledge to uplift the entire engineering team’s capabilities. 

Essential Skills & Experience 

• 5+ years of experience in DevOps, SRE, or Software Engineering roles, with increasing responsibility in system design and operations. 

• Extensive experience with containerization (Docker) and orchestration (Kubernetes) in production environments, including managing and scaling clusters. 

• Proficiency in Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CloudFormation, etc.) and configuration management tools (Ansible, Puppet) to automate infrastructure provisioning. 

• Strong coding and scripting skills in languages like Python, Go, or Ruby, with the ability to build automation tools for system management. 

• Deep knowledge of cloud platforms (AWS and/or GCP) and their services, with experience designing and operating cloud-based infrastructure at scale. 

• Solid understanding of networking and security fundamentals in cloud and on-prem environments. 

• Experience setting up and tuning monitoring/alerting systems (Prometheus, Grafana, etc.), and a thorough understanding of SRE best practices (SLIs, SLOs, incident management). 

• Strong problem-solving and communication skills, with a track record of working effectively in collaborative team environments. 

Preferred (Not Essential) 

• Kafka 

• MySQL/Postgres 

• Redis 

• Elasticsearch 

 

If you're a forward-thinking engineer who excels at solving complex infrastructure challenges and is passionate about automation and reliability, we'd love to hear from you. Apply today and help us elevate our infrastructure to the next level! 

 

 

Cision is committed to fostering an inclusive environment where all employees can be their authentic selves and perform at their best. We believe diversity, equity, and inclusion is vital to driving our culture, sparking innovation and achieving long-term success. Cision is proud to have joined more than 600 companies in signing the CEO Action for Diversity & Inclusion™ pledge and named a “Top Diversity Employer” for 2021 by DiversityJobs.com.

 

Cision is proud to be an equal opportunity employer, seeking to create a welcoming and diverse environment. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, veteran status, or other protected statuses.

 

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