DevOps Engineer, Senior

Role Summary

Solar Winds IT Operations is evolving from “ticket takers” to a modern Platform & Operations Engineering organization. Our mission is to give engineers secure and reliable platforms so they can focus on building and shipping products. We are looking for a Senior Dev Ops Engineer to strengthen our IT Dev Ops team. In this role, you will own and evolve the internal platforms that power engineering: CI/CD, Git Hub, AWS/Azure/GCP environments, and the next generation of developer workstations using Azure Dev Box.

This is a senior individual contributor role with broad scope across tools, infrastructure, and process.

• Work closely with engineering teams to understand their workflows and pain points, and turn them into platform features instead of one‑off fixes.
• Provide guidance and patterns for teams using CI/CD, infrastructure, and cloud resources, balancing freedom with sensible defaults and controls.
• Design, implement, and operate self‑hosted build platforms (Team City, Git Hub Actions runners, EKS‑backed workloads) in AWS and Kubernetes.
• Own and improve our artifact and package management stack (JFrog Artifactory, Xray) including lifecycle, retention, and performance.
• Treat our internal infrastructure as products: define golden paths for repositories, CI/CD, and dev/test environments and make them easy to adopt.
• Build and maintain Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Cloud Formation, etc.) for AWS, Azure, and VMware/private‑cloud resources.
• Automate repetitive operations and standard requests (environment provisioning, access, account setup) instead of scaling by tickets.
• Integrate and operationalize security tools (Git Hub Advanced Security, Xray, Sign Path, Azure Artifact Signing, etc.) as part of paved‑road workflows.

• Lead by example on planning, documentation, and change management: every significant change has a clear plan, ticket, and runbook or documentation update.
• Break down and deliver complex work incrementally; communicate progress and risks clearly to peers and leadership.
• Mentor other engineers in automation, reliability practices, and platform thinking; help raise the bar for the whole team.

• Strong experience as a Senior Dev Ops / Platform / SRE engineer supporting development teams in a cloud‑centric environment.
• Deep hands‑on knowledge of AWS (IAM, VPC, EC2/EKS, networking basics) and solid experience with Kubernetes in production.
• Proficiency with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform strongly preferred) and configuration management.
• Familiarity with Git Hub administration at organization/enterprise level (policies, protections, runners, security features).
• Demonstrated track record of owning services end to end: design, implementation, documentation, and steady‑state operations.
• Excellent communication skills; able to translate between engineering needs and IT/operations constraints.

Solar Winds is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer. Solar Winds will consider all qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, disability, veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law.