DevOps Engineer, IaC

Description

About the Role

As a Staff Dev Ops Engineer, you’ll own how code gets from commit to production at Ninja One — designing and continuously improving the release and deployment pipelines that let engineering teams ship quickly, safely, and often. This role sits at the intersection of CI/CD, deployment automation, and Infrastructure as Code, and it’s built for someone who thinks in modules, state files, and plan/apply workflows, not manual console changes.

Terraform is our IaC standard, and you’ll be the architect behind it — building a cloud-agnostic foundation that scales across teams today and extends to a multi-cloud future (AWS now, Azure/GCP as we grow). You’ll operate at both a strategic and hands‑on level: setting deployment and IaC standards org-wide, mentoring engineers, and partnering closely with Development, QA, Security, and IT to keep our release process fast, secure, and resilient.

This is a high‑ownership role for someone who wants to own the "last mile" of software delivery — turning builds into safe, repeatable production deployments backed by clean, modular infrastructure code — and who’s excited to shape that strategy as we expand into new regions and cloud providers.

We are flexible on remote working from home, if you are located in the USA and reside in one of the following states - CA, CO, CT, FL, GA,
* IL, KS, MA, MD, ME, NJ, NC, NY, OH, OR, TN, TX, VA, and WA. We have physical offices in Austin, TX and Tampa, FL, if you prefer a hybrid option.

• Onsite interviews may be required for this role.

We hire the best software engineers, but experience in our stack can’t hurt:
Ninja One is built on Java, Kotlin, C++, Golang and Postgres; supporting millions of user endpoints and running as a scalable cloud service in AWS. Knowing large-scale datastore bottlenecks, asynchronous application design and client-server architecture will help you.

• Own the CD/Release Pipeline:
  Design, build, and continuously improve delivery pipelines — from artifact promotion through progressive rollout (blue/green, canary, rolling) to production, with automated health checks, gating, and rollback. Build the CI/CD framework with particular depth on the CD half: release orchestration, environment promotion, deployment gating, automated rollback. Automate release management across services and regions — deployment scheduling, change tracking, feature-flag-driven rollout, coordinated multi-service releases.
• Lead Terraform/IaC Strategy & Architecture:
  Serve as technical authority on the Terraform codebase: module design, remote state management (backends, locking), workspace/organization strategy, versioning, provider pinning, RBAC for infra changes, and secrets management — built to scale across dozens of teams without conflict. Define the cloud-agnostic architecture (abstraction layers, reusable module libraries, naming/tagging conventions) that lets this extend from AWS to Azure/GCP as the company grows multi-cloud.
• Establish Governance & Guardrails:
  Implement policy-as-code and automated compliance/security/cost scanning (Sentinel, OPA, Checkov, Infracost, or similar) directly into the Terraform pipeline so infra changes are safe, auditable, and cost-aware by default.
• Drive Org-Wide Adoption:
  Partner with every engineering team to migrate existing infrastructure onto the new Terraform architecture; build documentation, golden-path templates, and training so teams outside Dev Ops/Deployment Engineering can safely author their own IaC.
• Drive Cross-Cloud Infrastructure Delivery:
  Design, develop, and deploy secure, compliant infrastructure in AWS (current primary cloud) via Terraform, shaping module/architecture strategy so the standard extends cleanly to Azure/GCP as…