DevOps Engineer III

Robert Half • San Ramon, CA

10d • $104,000 - $153,000

About The Position

Robert Half is seeking a highly skilled DevOps Engineer III to analyze, design, build, configure, automate, validate, support, and continuously improve enterprise application environments supporting PeopleSoft, MuleSoft, MOVEit, and other HRFS platforms. This role requires strong expertise in AWS cloud services, infrastructure automation, DevOps practices, disaster recovery, and enterprise application support. The successful candidate will serve as a technical leader responsible for environment architecture, operational excellence, platform reliability, automation, security, and disaster recovery readiness across critical business systems. Experience supporting managed file transfer (MOVEit or similar platforms), enterprise integrations, and highly available cloud architectures is highly desirable. The DevOps Engineer III will also evaluate emerging technologies, participate in architecture decisions, and create and maintain operational, disaster recovery, configuration, and validation documentation.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or related field, or equivalent experience.
• 5+ years of experience supporting enterprise infrastructure, cloud platforms, DevOps engineering, or software development.
• Strong experience administering Windows and Linux server environments.
• Experience supporting large-scale enterprise applications in production environments.
• Intermediate to advanced experience with VMware or comparable virtualization technologies.
• Strong troubleshooting, analytical, and problem-solving skills.
• Demonstrated ability to manage multiple priorities and make sound technical decisions.
• Excellent verbal, written, and presentation skills.
• Proven ability to work effectively with technical teams, business partners, and executive leadership.

Nice To Haves

• Experience supporting managed file transfer (MOVEit or similar platforms), enterprise integrations, and highly available cloud architectures is highly desirable.

Responsibilities

• Maintain and support production and non-production application environments.
• Provide PeopleSoft admin support and maintain the infrastructure for PeopleSoft and other systems/platforms.
• Install and refresh production and non-production environments.
• Issue resolution in these environments raised by application and testing teams. Coordinating migration of customizations, updates, and bug fixes across PeopleSoft instances and user security maintenance.
• Peoplesoft environment refreshes, uptime/downtime. If needed, creating new and decommissioning environments.
• Integration broker setup and troubleshooting.
• Proactively monitor system health, availability, performance, and capacity.
• Troubleshoot complex infrastructure and application issues and implement corrective actions.
• Perform scheduled health checks and operational reviews.
• Participate in a 24x7 on-call rotation supporting critical business applications.
• Support planned maintenance activities, releases, and unplanned outage remediation.
• Apply operating system, application, and security patches across Windows and Linux platforms.
• Review security vulnerabilities and collaborate with vendors and internal teams to implement mitigation plans.
• Ensure disaster recovery readiness, high availability, backup validation, and operational resiliency.
• Develop, maintain, and enhance operational documentation, architecture diagrams, support procedures, and disaster recovery runbooks.
• Support software compliance and annual audit activities.
• Design, build, configure, and deploy new application and infrastructure environments.
• Develop and maintain Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) solutions and automation frameworks.
• Create and maintain medium-to-complex automation scripts supporting cloud infrastructure provisioning, environment builds, deployments, monitoring, and operational processes.
• Drive continuous improvement through automation, standardization, and operational efficiency initiatives.
• Support CI/CD pipelines and DevOps best practices.
• Design scalable, secure, highly available, and maintainable infrastructure solutions.
• Architect environments that align with business, security, compliance, and operational requirements.
• Design disaster recovery and resiliency solutions with defined RPO/RTO objectives.
• Evaluate software, hardware, and cloud technologies and perform proof-of-concept activities.
• Design integrations between business applications and supporting infrastructure platforms.
• Develop sizing, capacity planning, performance, and scalability recommendations.
• Conduct design reviews and provide technical guidance to engineering teams.
• Provide technical leadership and mentorship to DevOps Engineers and support staff.
• Lead technical discussions related to architecture, automation, operational strategy, and cloud adoption.
• Participate in vendor evaluations, product selections, and technology roadmaps.
• Establish and promote DevOps, cloud, security, and operational best practices.
• Collaborate effectively with application teams, infrastructure teams, security teams, vendors, and business stakeholders.

Benefits

• group health insurance benefits (medical, vision, dental)
• FSA and HSA healthcare accounts
• life and accident insurance
• adoption and fertility assistance
• paid parental leave of up to 6 weeks
• short/long term disability
• paid time off for vacation, personal needs, and sick time
• up to 11 paid holidays per calendar year
• company 401(k) savings and investment plan or deferred compensation plan (if eligible), with an employer match of 100% on the first 3% of your contributions for eligible employees

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: Associate degree