Sr Software Engineer, DevOps

Trans Core (TRN), a subsidiary of ST Engineering, is seeking a talented Sr Dev Ops Engineer to join our Smart Mobility team in Austin, Texas.

Trans Core is building Smart Mobility, a cloud-native mobility platform that lets people move through tolling, parking, and transit from their phone, and connects the agencies, partners, and consumer apps behind it. We are looking for a Senior Dev Ops Engineer to build and run the delivery pipelines, cloud infrastructure, and observability that get that platform to production safely and repeatedly.

This is a hands-on senior individual contributor role. You will own infrastructure as code across the full environment pipeline, build the CI/CD that engineering ships through, and make the platform observable and recoverable. The environment is being stood up now, so you are building the foundation rather than inheriting one.

This role reports to the Director, Dev Ops & Release Engineering, as part of a shared services Dev Ops team and partners with the Smart Mobility Architecture function, which owns target-state infrastructure design and standards, and with the Platform Engineering organization, whose shared capabilities you consume rather than duplicate.

You are the Dev Ops counterpart to the Smart Mobility software, mobile, and QA Automation engineers. Where they own application code and test suites, you own the path that code takes to production and the infrastructure it runs on.

Ideally this position will be based in Austin, Texas, but we will consider Atlanta, GA, Nashville, TN or Harrisburg, PA. Will consider remote applicants for the right skillset. Position may be hybrid, with a blend of in-office and remote work. Occasional travel may be required based on business needs. Relocation is available for the right candidate.

• Pipeline ownership: Design, build, and maintain build, test, and deployment pipelines in Azure Dev Ops, with quality and security gates enforced in the pipeline rather than by convention.
• Deployment strategy: Implement repeatable, low-risk deployments across the environment pipeline, including blue-green or canary patterns, automated rollback, and database migration handling.
• Release enablement: Automate versioning, artifact management, and environment promotion so releases are routine and auditable.
• Test integration: Work with QA Automation to wire smoke, regression, API, and performance suites into the pipelines and make the results visible at the gate.

• Infrastructure as code: Own the Azure infrastructure definition in Terraform or Open Tofu, including module structure, state management, and drift detection, with no manual portal changes as the standard.
• Environment pipeline: Build and maintain the Dev, QA, UAT, Staging, Production, and Pilot environments so they are consistent, reproducible, and cheap to rebuild.
• Container platform: Operate containerized workloads on Azure, including registries, Kubernetes or Azure Kubernetes Service, autoscaling, and resource right-sizing.
• Cost discipline: Track and report cloud spend by environment and service, and drive out waste as the platform grows.

• Observability: Build the logging, metrics, tracing, and alerting layer so failures are detected and diagnosed quickly, and so service level objectives can be measured rather than asserted.
• Telemetry standards: Own the Open Telemetry standard for the platform, including instrumentation guidance, collector and exporter configuration, and sampling, so traces, metrics, and logs land usefully in Dynatrace and the Grafana…