DevOps Automation Engineer

Securin • Albuquerque, NM

4d • Onsite

About The Position

Securin is seeking a DevOps Automation Engineer to replace manual operational processes with AI-assisted, automated ones. This role involves looking across build, deploy, security, and infrastructure workflows to automate repetitive, human-in-the-loop tasks. You will work within the established DevOps stack (Terraform, Jenkins, SonarQube, and AWS) and use coding agents as a primary implementation tool. The company is investing in AI-assisted development to enable a small team to deliver more, and they are looking for someone who can leverage this while maintaining quality. They are open to alternative tools if a better option exists, provided migrations are methodical, well-communicated, and supportive of developers. This role also serves as a bridge to the India-based DevOps team, requiring regular partnership, alignment on standards, and helping the two sides operate as one team. The position is a hands-on senior individual contributor role with autonomy.

Requirements

• Candidates must reside in or be within commuting distance to Albuquerque, NM.
• Applicants must be legally authorized to work in the United States and must not require current or future employment visa sponsorship.
• Employment is contingent upon successful completion of a background check, including verification of prior employment.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 2+ years of hands-on AWS experience across core services (EC2, ECS/EKS, S3, IAM, VPC, RDS, CloudWatch), including a practical understanding of how they behave under failure.
• Production experience with infrastructure as code, using any mainstream tool (Terraform, OpenTofu, Pulumi, CloudFormation/CDK, or similar) — you've designed and owned infrastructure definitions, not only worked within someone else's modules.
• Experience owning CI/CD pipelines in production, with any mainstream tooling (Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, CircleCI, Azure DevOps, or similar) — the concepts matter more to us than the specific product.
• Strong system design fundamentals: the ability to reason about tradeoffs, failure domains, state, idempotency, and blast radius before writing code.
• Strong system troubleshooting skills: a methodical, evidence-driven approach to debugging distributed systems and CI/CD pipelines, including under time pressure.
• Strong programming principles — software engineering discipline (testing, version control, modularity, code review, readable code) applied to infrastructure and tooling.
• Proficiency in Python, Go, or a comparable language.
• Experience using coding agents for substantive implementation work, along with the judgment to evaluate agent output critically and review it to the same standard as your own.
• Willingness to work with a distributed team across time zones, including late-evening meetings a few times per week with our India DevOps team.
• A developer-as-customer mindset: the judgment to weigh a tooling change on its merits, and the discipline to migrate in careful, well-communicated stages rather than disruptive cutovers.
• Clear written communication — much of your work will be documented for colleagues in other time zones.

Nice To Haves

• Direct experience with Terraform — this is what we use today, alongside Jenkins and SonarQube.
• Direct experience with Jenkins, including shared libraries and reusable pipeline patterns.
• Direct experience with SonarQube or comparable static analysis and code-quality gating (Snyk, Semgrep, Checkmarx, CodeQL).
• Containers and orchestration at production scale (Docker, Kubernetes/EKS).
• Observability tooling (CloudWatch, Datadog, Prometheus/Grafana, OpenTelemetry) and experience building alerting that teams trust.
• Security and compliance automation — secrets management, policy as code, SOC 2 or similar audit evidence collection.
• Experience building internal developer platforms or self-service tooling.
• Prior experience bridging onshore and offshore engineering teams.
• Background in security or vulnerability management products.

Responsibilities

• Identify manual, repetitive, or error-prone operational processes and replace them with automated, AI-assisted workflows — and measure the time and toil recovered.
• Build and maintain infrastructure as code in Terraform: modules, state strategy, environment promotion, drift detection, and remediation.
• Own and extend Jenkins pipelines across build, test, security scan, artifact, and deploy stages, including shared libraries and reusable pipeline patterns.
• Integrate and tune SonarQube quality gates so that code quality and security findings surface what matters without creating noise.
• Use coding agents (e.g. Claude Code) as a primary implementation vehicle — decomposing problems, defining specs and guardrails, directing the work, and reviewing the results thoroughly.
• Design and troubleshoot systems end to end across AWS, including compute, networking, IAM, storage, and how these services behave under failure.
• Investigate and resolve production and pipeline incidents, then capture what you learned in runbooks and automation so the same issue doesn't return.
• Partner with the India DevOps team on shared standards, on-call practices, and clear handoffs, including attending late-evening meetings a few times per week to maintain meaningful overlap with their working hours.
• Evaluate whether our current tooling is still the right fit, and where a change is warranted, plan and execute the migration methodically — treating our developers as the users of the platform and keeping them supported and productive throughout.
• Document what you build, so the automation you create is understandable and maintainable by the whole team.

Benefits

• Medical Insurance Multiple plan options with low deductibles and competitive rates for individuals and families.
• Dental Insurance High and low plan options with 100% coverage for preventive care.
• Vision Insurance Coverage for exams, glasses, and contacts with generous allowances.
• Life & AD&D Insurance Company-paid basic life insurance; optional supplemental coverage for employees and dependents.
• Short-Term & Long-Term Disability Income protection up to 60% of earnings for qualifying disabilities.
• Flexible Enrollment with Rippling Easy online platform for managing benefits and life event changes.
• MaxFlex Unlimited PTO
• 401K Benefit

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior