Senior DevOps Engineer

For over four decades, PAR Technology Corporation (NYSE: PAR) has been a leader in restaurant technology, empowering brands worldwide to create lasting connections with their guests. Our innovative solutions and commitment to excellence provide comprehensive software and hardware that enable seamless experiences and drive growth for over 100,000 restaurants in more than 110 countries. Embracing our "Better Together" ethos, we offer Unified Customer Experience solutions, combining point-of-sale, digital ordering, loyalty and back-office software solutions as well as industry-leading hardware and drive-thru offerings.

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PAR Technology is seeking a hands-on Senior Dev Ops Engineer to embed security into every stage of how we build, ship, and operate software. Sitting at the intersection of platform engineering and security, this role owns the tooling, automation, and guardrails that enable product teams to move quickly without compromising the trust of the restaurant and retail brands that rely on PAR.

You will design secure CI/CD pipelines and cloud infrastructure, identify and remediate risk before it reaches production, and help raise the security and reliability bar across the engineering organization.

Remote
- New York, Texas, Philadelphia, Florida, North Carolina, Minnesota, Colorado, Georgia, Illinois

Director, Dev Ops

• 6-12 years of experience across Dev Ops, platform engineering, security engineering, or a related field, including at least 3 years focused on Dev Sec Ops  or application/cloud security in production environments.
• Deep hands-on experience with CI/CD platforms such as Git Hub Actions, Git Lab CI, Jenkins, or Azure Dev Ops, including embedding security tooling into delivery pipelines.
• Strong cloud engineering experience with AWS and/or Azure, including IAM, networking, encryption, logging, and monitoring services.
• Production experience with Kubernetes and containers, including securing clusters and workloads at scale.
• Proficiency with infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform or Cloud Formation and at least one scripting or programming language such as Python, Go, or Bash.
• Solid networking fundamentals, including TCP/IP, DNS, HTTP/HTTPS, TLS, routing, firewalls, security groups/NACLs, segmentation, and troubleshooting tools such as tcpdump, dig, and Wireshark.
• Hands‑on cloud networking experience with VPC/VNet design, load balancing, ingress controllers, private connectivity, service mesh technologies, and zero‑trust network patterns.
• Experience operating observability platforms such as Prometheus, Grafana, ELK/Open Search, or Datadog and using telemetry to improve reliability and security outcomes.
• Working knowledge of application security, including the OWASP Top 10, dependency and software supply-chain risk, secrets hygiene, and secure SDLC practices.
• Experience with security scanning and monitoring tools such as Snyk, Trivy, Sonar Qube, Wiz, Prisma Cloud, Falco, or equivalent platforms.
• Clear, pragmatic communication skills with the ability to explain risk and trade‑offs to engineers and leaders and influence without direct authority.

• Security certifications such as CISSP, CKS, OSCP, AWS Certified Security
  - Specialty, Azure security certifications, or GIAC; networking certifications such as CCNA or AWS Certified Advanced Networking
  - Specialty.
• Experience with multi‑region, highly available architectures, disaster recovery, and chaos engineering practices.
• Experience in payments, fintech, retail, or another PCI DSS-regulated environment.
• Exposure to zero‑trust architectures, SIEM/SOAR…