DevOps / Platform Engineer – TS/SCI

Esri • St. Louis, MO

9h • $97,240 - $162,240 • Onsite

About The Position

Join Esri's Professional Services organization as a DevOps / Platform Engineer and help engineer the CI/CD platforms, automation, and infrastructure supporting secure software delivery. You will build modern developer tooling and delivery pipelines using technologies such as GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, Jenkins, Docker, Python, and Infrastructure as Code while supporting mission-critical environments. Esri offers a Relocation Assistance Program and can provide support with relocating to the St. Louis, MO area for this position.

Requirements

• 2+ years of professional DevOps, CI/CD, or platform automation
• Hands-on experience designing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Azure Pipelines, or similar)
• Experience working with YAML-based pipeline configurations and infrastructure definitions
• Exposure to automation and scripting (Python and/or JavaScript preferred)
• Experience with infrastructure automation tools such as Ansible, AWS CDK, Terraform or similar IaC frameworks
• Ability to write and optimize Docker files and support container-based deployments
• Understanding of artifact management, dependency management, and secure build practices
• Familiarity with SBOM tools and artifact signing concepts
• Exposure to cloud platforms (AWS and/or Azure) especially compute services and storage services (S3, Blob Storage)
• US citizenship with Active or Current (within 2 years of active) Top Secret Security Clearance with SCI eligibility
• Bachelor's in Computer Science, Mathematics, DevOps, Geographic Information Systems (GIS), or STEM related field

Nice To Haves

• Master's in Computer Science, Mathematics, DevOps, Geographic Information Systems (GIS), or Stem related field
• Experience automating backend systems and operational workflows
• Familiarity with release engineering and deployment strategies (blue/green, canary, etc.)
• Experience integrating security scanning into pipelines (SAST/DAST, container scanning)
• Exposure to Kubernetes-based delivery environments
• Exposure to DevSecOps practices and secure development pipelines
• CompTIA Security + certification
• Experience working in Agile or Scrum development environments

Responsibilities

• CI/CD pipeline engineering
• GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps and Jenkins
• Docker-based build environments
• Python automation
• Infrastructure as Code
• Terraform/Ansible
• Build and artifact infrastructure
• SBOM and vulnerability scanning
• DevSecOps
• Cloud automation
• Kubernetes-based delivery environments

Benefits

• Relocation Assistance Program
• medical
• dental
• vision
• basic and supplemental life insurance for employees (and their families)
• 401(k) and profit-sharing programs
• minimum accrual of 80 hours of vacation leave
• twelve paid holidays throughout the calendar year
• opportunities for personal and professional growth

What This Job Offers

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