Senior Engineer - DevOps, Onsite

Bass Pro Shops is seeking a Senior Dev Ops Engineer to join our platform engineering team. This is a high-ownership, high-impact role at the center of how we build, ship, and operate software  will be responsible for managing and continuously improving software delivery across hundreds of CI/CD pipelines, operating a multi-regional Azure Kubernetes footprint, and ensuring our platform is secure, observable, and resilient.

You'll work across the full spectrum of platform engineering - from pipeline security scanning and Git Ops delivery to distributed data infrastructure and global traffic management. If you want to own a platform that touches everything and has real engineering depth, this is the role.

This role is required to be onsite in Springfield, Missouri.

Responsibilities

Software Delivery & Pipelines

* Own and maintain hundreds of Git Hub Actions CI/CD pipelines across multiple teams and repositories

* Integrate and manage security scanning tooling (SAST, container image scanning, dependency scanning, secrets detection) across the full pipeline estate; enforce scan gates and triage findings at scale

* Implement and maintain Git Ops workflows using FluxCD and/or ArgoCD; manage fleet-level configuration drift, reconciliation, and progressive delivery

* Package and version applications using Helm charts; maintain internal chart libraries and manage release workflows

* Drive improvements in build performance, deployment strategies (blue/green, canary, rolling), and rollback capabilities

Infrastructure & Kubernetes

* Manage and operate Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) clusters across environments - including cluster lifecycle, RBAC, network policies, autoscaling, and workload placement

* Author and maintain Infrastructure as Code using Terraform - modules covering Azure networking (VNets, subnets, NSGs, private endpoints, peering), compute, storage, AKS, and managed services

* Manage container image build pipelines, Azure Container Registry (ACR), base image governance, and automated vulnerability scanning

* Manage secrets and sensitive configuration through Azure Key Vault; enforce least-privilege access across pipelines and services

Multi-Regional & Traffic Management

* Architect and operate multi-regional Azure footprints including cross-region failover, geo-replication, and latency-aware traffic design

* Configure and manage Akamai edge policies - CDN, WAF, DDoS mitigation, TLS offload, and API Gateway rules

* Implement and maintain Azure Traffic Manager for DNS-level global load balancing, health probing, and regional failover

Distributed Systems

* Design and operate Apache Kafka infrastructure - broker configuration, topic and partition management, consumer group tuning, schema governance, and multi-cluster replication

* Manage Mongo

DB deployments (replica sets, sharding, backup/restore strategies) on Kubernetes and/or Azure-managed equivalents

* Support Redis deployments - clustering, eviction policies, persistence, and high availability configuration

Observability & Security

* Build and maintain observability pipelines using the Elastic Stack and Open Telemetry - log aggregation, distributed tracing, and metrics from infrastructure through application layers

* Support and enforce security and compliance postures aligned with PCI DSS and CIS Benchmark standards at the infrastructure, Kubernetes, and pipeline layers

* Participate in on-call rotations and incident response; conduct post-mortems and drive reliability improvements

Required Qualifications

* 5-8 years of experience in a Dev Ops, platform engineering, or site reliability role

* Proven experience managing and securing CI/CD pipelines at scale (100+ pipelines) using Git Hub Actions, including integration of security scanning tools (Trivy, Dependabot, or equivalent)

* Deep hands-on experience with AKS and Kubernetes - RBAC, network policies, resource management, cluster upgrades, and multi-environment operations

* Strong Terraform skills - module authoring, state management, workspace strategy, and Azure resource coverage

* Production experience with FluxCD or ArgoCD in a Git Ops delivery model

* Proficiency with Helm - authoring charts, managing dependencies, and release workflows

* Solid understanding of Azure networking - VNets, NSGs, route tables, private endpoints, DNS, and peering

* Experience with Azure Key Vault and secrets management patterns across pipelines and workloads

* Hands-on experience with Elastic Stack and Open Telemetry for observability

* Proficiency in Linux administration and scripting - Bash, Shell, and Python

* Working knowledge of PCI DSS and CIS Benchmark hardening standards applied to cloud and container environments

* Experience with multi-regional Azure architectures and global traffic routing patterns

* Hands-on experience with Apache Kafka, Mongo

DB, and Redis in production environments

Preferred Qualifications

* Experience with Akamai edge platform - property configuration, WAF policies, and API Gateway

* Experience with Azure Traffic Manager and/or…