Sr DevOps Engineer

Ascensus•Needham, MA

2d•$150,000 - $200,000

About The Position

Ascensus is seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer to provide technical leadership and architectural direction for DevOps, CI/CD, and cloud-native engineering practices across multiple agile teams. The role partners with architects, engineers, security, and infrastructure teams to design scalable, secure, highly automated delivery platforms that help teams ship software faster and more reliably. It combines strategic leadership with hands-on engineering, including setting standards, guiding teams, solving complex engineering problems, and leading proofs of concept. The engineer will champion DevOps and DevSecOps culture while improving developer experience, platform reliability, and operational excellence.

Requirements

10 or more years of hands-on experience in DevOps, Platform Engineering, Build & Release, or Engineering Operations roles.
Proven experience designing and supporting DevOps architecture in enterprise-scale production environments.
Strong experience with Agile/Scrum, Continuous Integration, and Continuous Delivery.
Hands-on experience deploying and troubleshooting applications in Linux and Windows environments.
Advanced automation and scripting experience using PowerShell, Python, or similar languages.
Strong experience with CI/CD tools such as GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, or Jenkins.
Deep expertise in Docker and Kubernetes.
Strong experience with Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform.
Proficiency with configuration management tools such as Ansible, Puppet, or Chef.
Solid understanding of microservices and cloud-native architectures; networking, load balancing, caching, and service discovery; security, secrets management, and certificate management; and high availability, resiliency, and disaster recovery.
Hands-on experience with AWS cloud services.
Excellent communication skills and the ability to influence and guide technical direction across teams.

Nice To Haves

Experience with observability and monitoring platforms such as Prometheus, Grafana, ELK/OpenSearch, or Datadog.
Experience with NGINX/NGINX Plus, Consul, and Redis.
Exposure to Site Reliability Engineering practices and reliability metrics.
Experience supporting large enterprise platforms such as BPM, CRM, portals, or content management systems.
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent professional experience.
Java ecosystem experience, including JDK, Spring Boot, or Struts.
Experience with JavaScript frameworks such as Angular, React, or Node.js.
Experience with monolith, microservices, and event-driven architectures.
Experience with Test-Driven Development and automated testing frameworks.

Responsibilities

Provide architectural oversight and technical direction for DevOps, CI/CD, and platform engineering across multiple scrum teams.
Partner with Application and Program Architects to align DevOps solutions with business and product strategy.
Define and evolve standards for build, deployment, infrastructure, and environment management.
Design reusable reference architectures, templates, and patterns for adoption across teams.
Lead the design and implementation of automated CI/CD pipelines for build, test, release, and deployment.
Establish best practices for source control, branching strategies, and release management.
Design Infrastructure as Code solutions for provisioning and managing environments.
Embed security and compliance controls in delivery pipelines.
Drive adoption of containerized and cloud-native architectures using Kubernetes-based platforms.
Ensure platforms meet standards for scalability, resiliency, performance, and cost efficiency.
Guide teams on service networking, API management, load balancing, and traffic management.
Support high availability, disaster recovery, and business continuity strategies.
Provide Level-3 support for complex production incidents and reliability challenges.
Partner with operations and engineering teams to improve observability, monitoring, and alerting.
Identify opportunities to improve system stability and operational maturity.
Mentor and coach engineers on DevOps practices, tools, and architectural decision-making.
Promote automation, ownership, continuous improvement, and quality.
Research emerging tools, technologies, and practices to improve the software delivery lifecycle.
Build consensus and introduce cost-effective solutions that improve delivery speed, quality, and reliability.
Optimize DevOps platforms and processes based on measurable outcomes.