Senior DevOps Engineer

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The Senior Dev Ops Engineer is a senior member of the Information Technology organization, responsible for applying modern Dev Ops practices to a large, existing production environment.

This role is not greenfield. You will work within a mature, heterogeneous infrastructure, on-premises and cloud, progressively introducing automation, standardization, and reliability improvements without disrupting active production.

You will partner closely with Pipeline, Production Technology, Security, and Engineering teams to influence how infrastructure is designed, delivered, and operated, acting as a technical driver for Dev Ops principles across the studio.

• Apply Dev Ops principles to an existing, production-critical IT environment, balancing modernization with stability
• Design, implement, and operate a global Linux ecosystem supporting workstations, servers, and animation production pipelines
• Partner with Pipeline, Production, and Technology teams to introduce infrastructure-as-code, automation standards, and repeatable deployment patterns
• Identify high-value manual, error-prone, or inconsistent operational processes and replace them with automated solutions using Terraform, Ansible, and Python
• Architect, provision, and maintain infrastructure across AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, and OCI, including compute, storage, networking, and virtualization
• Own end-to-end technical designs for infrastructure projects, including prioritization, implementation, documentation, and operational handoff
• Maintain a deep understanding of studio workflows and collaborate with Production Technology to evolve systems alongside production needs
• Design, build, and maintain CI/CD pipelines; guide development teams toward reliable build, test, and deployment practices
• Define and promote best-in-class CI/CD, source control, and branching strategies in collaboration with Engineering and Security teams
• Design, operate, and maintain render farm infrastructure, with a focus on configuration management and performance monitoring
• Present technical options to leadership, including architectural trade-offs, cost analysis, and risk considerations
• Act as a technical advocate for automation, observability, and reliability across IT and production-facing teams
• Participate in a 24×7 production on-call rotation, focusing on root-cause analysis and long-term remediation
• Mentor junior engineers and help raise the overall operational maturity of the IT organization

• 8+ years of experience as a Dev Ops Engineer, Site Reliability Engineer, or equivalent role supporting production systems
• Strong hands-on experience with infrastructure automation and configuration management (Terraform, Ansible, Puppet, or similar)
• Proficiency in scripting and programming for systems integration and automation (Python required; Bash, Go, or similar preferred)
• End-to-end experience designing and operating CI/CD pipelines in production environments
• Demonstrated experience architecting and operating infrastructure in one or more major cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP, and/or OCI)
• Solid Linux systems administration experience, including application…