Senior DevOps​/SRE Engineer

Atlanta, Austin, Chicago, Dallas, Houston

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Senior Dev Ops / SRE Engineers own the CI/CD pipelines, Git Ops infrastructure, Kubernetes operations, and reliability engineering practices that keep the PE platform running at production quality on Microsoft Azure. You make it safe to deploy frequently and easy to recover when things go wrong. You work closely with Platform Engineering, Data Platform, and Product squads to ensure every team can ship confidently and operate their services without heroics.

• Design, build, and maintain CI/CD pipelines across all repositories using reusable Git Hub Actions workflows.
• Own the ArgoCD Git Ops configuration; manage application promotion from staging to production.
• Operate and upgrade the EKS cluster; manage node groups, Karpenter provisioners, and cluster add‑ons.
• Maintain the Terraform estate across all environments; review and apply infrastructure changes via Atlantis.
• Define and maintain SLOs, alerting rules, and Grafana dashboards for all platform services.
• Operate and maintain Hashi Corp Vault (and/or Azure Key Vault); manage auth backends, policies, and secret engine configuration.
• Implement and maintain supply chain security controls: image scanning, signing, SBOM generation, and OPA policy enforcement.
• Collaborate with the Security Engineer on network policy, egress controls, and compliance requirements.
• Participate in on‑call rotation; lead incident response and post‑incident review process.

• Automate repeatable operational work; reduce manual fixes through tooling and runbook automation.
• Document runbooks proactively and keep them current as systems evolve.
• Use AI tooling to draft infrastructure code and runbook content, validating outputs against security and compliance standards before merging.
• Partner with product and engineering teams to tune reliability practices (SLOs, alerting thresholds, deployment safety checks) and to remove friction from developer workflows.
• Communicate clearly during incidents: calm, factual, and action‑oriented.

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or a related field (or equivalent practical experience).
• 6+ years of experience in Dev Ops, SRE, Platform Engineering, or Production Operations roles supporting cloud‑hosted, multi‑service platforms.
• Demonstrated experience owning production CI/CD, Git Ops, and Kubernetes operations for multi‑service platforms.
• Experience operating and upgrading…