Senior DevOps Cloud Engineer

Energy Services Group•Norwell, MA

1d•Hybrid

About The Position

The Senior DevOps / Cloud Engineer will lead the design, implementation, and optimization of scalable, secure, and highly available cloud and on-prem infrastructure. This role partners closely with application development, security, and infrastructure teams to drive automation, reliability, observability, and cost efficiency across the organization. As a senior-level contributor, you will provide technical leadership, mentor engineers, influence architectural decisions, and own complex cloud and DevOps initiatives from design through production. The ideal candidate brings deep hands-on expertise in cloud platforms, virtualization, CI/CD, infrastructure as code, monitoring, and cloud cost optimization (FinOps) in hybrid environments. We are seeking a Mid-Senior DevOps Engineer with 8+ years of relevant experience who is eager to grow their skills and contribute to our dynamic team. This is a hybrid position, and we expect the candidate to work 2-3 days a week on-site at our office.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Engineering, or a related field; advanced degree preferred
7-8+ years of experience in DevOps, Cloud Engineering, or Infrastructure Engineering
5+ years designing, operating, and optimizing complex enterprise environments across Windows, Linux, and SQL-based systems
Strong expertise in enterprise data center technologies, including Storage platforms, Network switching and Security infrastructure
Deep experience with at least one major cloud provider (AWS preferred; Azure or GCP acceptable)
Strong hands-on experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CloudFormation)
Advanced knowledge of virtualization and container platforms: VMware (vSphere, ESXi, vCenter) and Docker/Kubernetes in production environments
Proficiency in scripting and automation using Python, PowerShell, Bash, and/or Go
Experience implementing observability and monitoring solutions, including Datadog
Excellent communication and leadership skills with the ability to manage priorities, influence stakeholders, and lead technical initiatives

Nice To Haves

Experience leading large-scale cloud migrations to AWS.
Strong SQL Server administration experience.
CI/CD expertise with Jenkins, GitLab CI, Git, Jira, or CircleCI.
Cloud cost optimization and FinOps experience (rightsizing, RI/Savings Plans, tagging, budgets).
Ability to establish DevOps and cloud governance standards.

Responsibilities

Lead collaboration with application development teams to design and implement reliable, automated CI/CD pipelines
Architect, implement, and maintain cloud-native and hybrid infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code best practices
Drive automation initiatives across provisioning, deployment, monitoring, and recovery processes
Design, implement, and maintain observability platforms, with a strong focus on Datadog for metrics, logs, traces, and alerting
Establish monitoring, SLOs, and alerting strategies to improve system reliability and reduce mean time to resolution (MTTR)
Own and optimize cloud cost efficiency, identifying savings opportunities and implementing cost controls without compromising performance
Implement and maintain configuration management using tools such as Ansible, Puppet, or Chef
Own and optimize VMware environments, ensuring high availability, scalability, and performance
Serve as a senior escalation point for production incidents, performing root cause analysis and driving long-term remediation
Partner with security teams to enforce infrastructure security, compliance, and best practices
Lead disaster recovery planning, testing, and continuous improvement efforts
Perform regular system performance tuning, capacity planning, and cost analysis
Mentor junior and mid-level engineers and contribute to technical standards and documentation
Create and maintain detailed architecture diagrams and operational documentation