Sr DevOps Engineer

Ascensus is the leading independent technology and service platform powering savings plans across America, providing products and expertise that help nearly 16 million people save for a better today and tomorrow.

Section 1: Position Summary As a

Senior

DevOps Engineer

, you will provide technical leadership and architectural direction for DevOps, CI/CD, and cloud‑native engineering practices across multiple agile teams. You will partner closely with architects, engineers, security, and infrastructure teams to design scalable, secure, and highly automated delivery platforms that enable teams to ship software faster and more reliably. This role is ideal for a hands‑on technical leader who enjoys working at both the

strategic and tactical levels

—setting standards, guiding teams, and occasionally rolling up their sleeves to solve complex engineering problems or lead proofs of concept. You will also serve as a champion of

DevOps and DevSecOps culture

, continuously improving developer experience, platform reliability, and operational excellence.

Key Responsibilities

Technical Leadership & Architecture

Provide architectural oversight and technical direction for DevOps, CI/CD, and platform engineering practices across multiple scrum teams. Partner with Application and Program Architects to align DevOps solutions with business and product strategy. Define and evolve standards for build, deployment, infrastructure, and environment management. Design reusable reference architectures, templates, and patterns for consistent adoption across teams. DevOps, CI/CD & Automation

Lead the design and implementation of automated CI/CD pipelines, including build, test, release, and deployment workflows. Establish best practices for source control, branching strategies, and release management. Design Infrastructure as Code (IaC) solutions for provisioning and managing environments. Embed security and compliance controls directly into pipelines (DevSecOps). Cloud, Containers & Platform Engineering

Drive adoption of containerized and cloud‑native architectures using Kubernetes‑based platforms. Ensure platforms meet standards for scalability, resiliency, performance, and cost efficiency. Guide teams on service networking, API management, load balancing, and traffic management. Support high availability, disaster recovery, and business continuity strategies. Reliability & Production Support

Provide Level‑3 support for complex production incidents and reliability challenges. Partner with operations and engineering teams to improve observability, monitoring, and alerting. Continuously identify opportunities to improve system stability and operational maturity. Mentorship & Culture

Mentor and coach engineers on DevOps practices, tools, and architectural decision‑making. Promote a culture of automation, ownership, continuous improvement, and quality. Model strong collaboration, communication, and engineering discipline. Innovation & Continuous Improvement

Research emerging tools, technologies, and practices to improve the software delivery lifecycle. Build consensus and introduce cost‑effective solutions that increase delivery speed, quality, and reliability. Continuously optimize DevOps platforms and processes based on measurable outcomes. Required Qualifications

10+ years

of hands‑on experience in DevOps, Platform Engineering, Build & Release, or Engineering Operations roles. Proven experience designing and supporting DevOps architecture in

enterprise‑scale production environments

. Strong experience with

Agile/Scrum

, Continuous Integration, and Continuous Delivery. Hands‑on experience deploying and troubleshooting applications in

Linux and Windows

environments. Advanced automation and scripting experience using

PowerShell, Python

, or similar languages. Strong experience with CI/CD tools such as

GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins

. Deep expertise in

Docker and Kubernetes

. Strong experience with

Infrastructure as Code

tools (e.g.,

Terraform

). Proficiency with configuration management tools such as

Ansible, Puppet, or Chef

. Solid understanding of:

Microservices and clou