DevOps Engineer (Technology)

DaVita Kidney Care • 01548 - Texas Remote, TX

3d • $115,000 - $183,000

About The Position

This role will ensure quality is embedded throughout the delivery lifecycle rather than treated as a final checkpoint, enabling stronger release confidence, earlier issue identification, and more consistent operational readiness. The DevOps QA Engineer will design, develop, and maintain scalable automated test scripts, frameworks, and reusable automation assets to support functional, regression, integration, API, cloud, and end-to-end testing across IAM application releases. This role will integrate automated testing, quality gates, and validation checkpoints into CI/CD pipelines to provide earlier quality feedback and support reliable, repeatable cloud and application deployments. The engineer will validate applications and services deployed to cloud-based environments, including configuration, connectivity, scalability, resilience, security controls, and operational readiness. They will partner with development, DevOps, product, infrastructure, security, and operations teams to define test strategies, acceptance criteria, quality gates, and release readiness expectations. Manual and automated testing will be executed as needed to validate new features, enhancements, defect fixes, configuration changes, and production readiness. The role involves identifying, documenting, prioritizing, and tracking defects through resolution while clearly communicating risks, impacts, dependencies, and recommended remediation steps. Support will be provided for deployment activities by validating build quality, monitoring test results, reviewing logs, and assisting with troubleshooting throughout release cycles. The engineer will create, maintain, and improve test data, test environments, and reusable testing assets to increase efficiency, consistency, and coverage. API, integration, performance, reliability, and resiliency testing will be performed to confirm applications meet functional, technical, security, and operational requirements. Test results, pipeline failures, system logs, and monitoring alerts will be analyzed to identify root causes, surface trends, and recommend corrective actions. This role champions shift-left testing, continuous testing, and quality engineering best practices across the software development lifecycle. Clear testing documentation, including test plans, test cases, automation coverage, execution results, defect reports, and release validation evidence, will be maintained. Automation tools, cloud testing practices, frameworks, processes, and quality metrics will be continuously evaluated to improve automation maturity, delivery speed, release reliability, and overall software quality.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field (or equivalent practical experience).
• Experience in DevOps, QA Automation, Cloud Engineering, or related software delivery roles.

Nice To Haves

• Certifications in cloud platforms or DevOps (e.g., AWS Certified Solutions Architect / SysOps, Azure DevOps Engineer, HashiCorp Certified Terraform Associate).

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain scalable automated test scripts, frameworks, and reusable automation assets to support functional, regression, integration, API, cloud, and end-to-end testing across IAM application releases.
• Integrate automated testing, quality gates, and validation checkpoints into CI/CD pipelines to provide earlier quality feedback and support reliable, repeatable cloud and application deployments.
• Validate applications and services deployed to cloud-based environments, including configuration, connectivity, scalability, resilience, security controls, and operational readiness.
• Partner with development, DevOps, product, infrastructure, security, and operations teams to define test strategies, acceptance criteria, quality gates, and release readiness expectations.
• Execute manual and automated testing as needed to validate new features, enhancements, defect fixes, configuration changes, and production readiness.
• Identify, document, prioritize, and track defects through resolution while clearly communicating risks, impacts, dependencies, and recommended remediation steps.
• Support deployment activities by validating build quality, monitoring test results, reviewing logs, and assisting with troubleshooting throughout release cycles.
• Create, maintain, and improve test data, test environments, and reusable testing assets to increase efficiency, consistency, and coverage.
• Perform API, integration, performance, reliability, and resiliency testing to confirm applications meet functional, technical, security, and operational requirements.
• Analyze test results, pipeline failures, system logs, and monitoring alerts to identify root causes, surface trends, and recommend corrective actions.
• Champion shift-left testing, continuous testing, and quality engineering best practices across the software development lifecycle.
• Maintain clear testing documentation, including test plans, test cases, automation coverage, execution results, defect reports, and release validation evidence.
• Continuously evaluate automation tools, cloud testing practices, frameworks, processes, and quality metrics to improve automation maturity, delivery speed, release reliability, and overall software quality.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, vision, 401(k) match, paid time off, PTO cash out
• Family resources, EAP counseling sessions, Headspace®, backup child and elder care, maternity/paternity leave
• Professional development programs, on-demand virtual leadership and development courses through DaVita’s online training platform StarLearning

What This Job Offers

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