Senior DevOps Engineer

• Company:
  Digi Cert
• Position:
  Senior Dev Ops Engineer
• Location:
  
  United States - Remote

Digi Cert is a global leader in intelligent trust. We protect the digital world by ensuring the security, privacy, and authenticity of every interaction. Our AI-powered Digi Cert ONE platform unifies PKI, DNS, and certificate lifecycle management, to secure infrastructure, software, devices, messages, AI content and agents. Learn why more than 100,000 organizations, including 90% of the Fortune 500, choose Digi Cert to stop today’s threats and prepare for a quantum-safe future at

We are seeking a Senior Dev Ops Engineer who will play a role in updating the state of our infrastructure, automation, and operational excellence. This role requires a deep understanding of systems, networking, monitoring, and security, with a strong bias toward automation, reliability and scale. The ideal candidate will be a technical leader, helping to shape the direction of infrastructure and tooling.

• Implementation of infrastructure automation, monitoring, and system reliability practices committed to providing 100% service availability.
• Able to perform forensic system administration, troubleshooting unfamiliar Linux systems and services.
• Demonstrates a Sec Ops mindset with a focus on secure automation and hardened Linux system administration.
• Champion the use and advancement of Dev Ops best practices including CI/CD, infrastructure as code, and zero-touch provisioning.
• Utilize best practices in release management, incident management, capacity planning, and operational readiness.
• Instrumentation of services with visualization to speed triage (lower MTTR) allowing no direct access to systems.
• Exerts technical influence horizontally—up and laterally to fellow seniors, and down to the team.
• Acts as a mentor to Dev Ops and engineering team members; share knowledge and foster a culture of learning and continuous improvement.
• Proactively identify and implement opportunities to increase system resiliency.
• Implement technical direction around infrastructure, cloud, networking (BGP), and automation strategy.
• Participate in on-call rotation, demonstrating strong customer empathy and responsiveness to incidents.
• Own and improve standard operating procedures and system documentation.
• Research, prototype, and implement new technologies across cloud, virtualization, and hardware platforms.

• Strong Linux systems administration background with a deep understanding of how Linux interacts with hardware (CPU, memory, disk, networking).
• Advanced proficiency in scripting and automation using Ansible, Bash, Python, Packer, and Terraform.
• Hands-on experience with AWS services (EC2, IAM, VPC, etc.) and provisioning tools like Terraform and Packer.
• Experience with datacenter operations including racking, stacking, and remote system management.
• Proven ability to manage and configure systems at scale with zero-touch provisioning approaches.
• Experience managing monitoring systems and developing custom dashboards for observability.
• Solid understanding of networking within a linux environment (Router -> Switch -> Server -> Virtualization -> Linux -> Service) ; BGP and DNS experience is a plus.
• Passion for operational excellence, security, and performance.
• Ability to self-manage, communicate effectively, and collaborate with diverse technical teams.
• Willingness and ability to learn new technologies as required.

• Experience with Kentik, Splunk, or similar network visibility and observability platforms.
• Familiarity with modern CI/CD tools and pipeline architecture.
• Willingness and ability to learn new languages as required.
• Experience in designing, developing, and maintaining RESTful APIs following…