Sr. DevOps Engineer

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Santander is a global leader and innovator in the financial services industry and is evolving from a high-impact brand into a technology-driven organization. Our people are at the heart of this journey and together, we are driving a customer‑centric transformation that values bold thinking, innovation, and the courage to challenge what’s possible. This is more than a strategic shift. It’s a chance for driven professionals to grow, learn, and make a real difference.

If you are interested in exploring the possibilities, we want to talk to you!

The Sr. Dev Ops Engineer is responsible for developing and implementing continuous improvement solutions for Santander’s CICD pipelines. The cross‑functional role will collaborate across the IT Enterprise to automate and re‑engineer application, database, and infrastructure processes.

• Supporting developer needs for CICD: code repositories, branches, build and release definitions
• Process re‑engineering for continuous improvement
• Communicating and collaborating with other teams across the organization
• Advanced interpersonal communication skills
• Performs other duties and special projects as assigned
• May assist in other related departments as required by business needs

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Bachelor’s Degree in a related field or equivalent demonstrated through a combination of work experience, training, military service, or education – Required

• 9+ Years Experience with data center networking, and/or cloud networking, as well as concepts and fundamentals of shared storage, clustering, and failover – Required
• Minimum five (5) years of scripting or related experience, e.g., Power Shell
• Minimum five (5) years of programming or related experience
• Minimum five (5) years of database development or related experience
• Basic knowledge of infrastructure virtualization, cloud technologies, and networking
• Demonstrate knowledge of source code management
• Show knowledge of automated build, deploy, and testing of code
• Display knowledge of infrastructure orchestration and configuration management
• Highly collaborative across all IT departments
• Ability to maintain confidentiality

• No Certifications listed for this job

• Scripting and automation development, especially with Power Shell and Python
• Programming/software development experience: .NET
• Database CI/CD automation and development
• Automated testing automation and development to enable CI/CD
• Cloud platform automation and Dev Ops familiarity: AWS
• Ansible playbook development and automation
• Containerization and container orchestration automation and development
• Confluent (Kafka) automation and development
• Familiar with CoPilot and can use it to accelerate development
• Experience with Devin AI tooling and having used it for software development is a plus

Applicants must be legally authorized to work in the United States on a full‑time basis without requiring employer sponsorship to commence employment.

Minimum: $ USD

Maximum: $ USD

Your contribution matters and it’s recognized. You can expect a fair and competitive rewards package that reflects the impact you create and the value you deliver. We know rewards go beyond numbers. Offering more than just a paycheck, our benefits are designed to support you, your family and your well‑being, now and into the future.

We embrace a strong risk culture and all of our professionals at all levels are expected to take a proactive and responsible approach toward risk management.

At Santander, we value and respect differences in our workforce. We actively encourage everyone to apply. Santander is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, genetics, disability, age, veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law.

Frequent minimal physical effort such as sitting, standing and walking is required for this role. Depending on location, occasional moving and lifting light equipment and/or furniture may be required.