Senior DevOps Engineer

Carnival Corporation•Seattle, WA

7d•Hybrid

About The Position

Holland America Line is seeking a Senior Engineer, DevOps to drive the company's DevOps and platform engineering implementation. This role will transform infrastructure and application delivery from manual processes to automated, repeatable, and scalable practices. The ideal candidate is a hands-on engineer with deep expertise in Infrastructure as Code (IaC), CI/CD pipelines, containerization, and immutable infrastructure patterns. This position is part of the Cloud and DevOps Platforms function within Infrastructure and Operations. The role leads a team of 3-5 FTEs and/or contract resources responsible for building automation, tooling, and standards for the company's commercial, business, and fleet application environments. This includes automated provisioning on virtualization and container platforms, including native Kubernetes capabilities. The platform team provides a 'paved road' for application teams, owning CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure as code, cloud automation, deployment tooling, and defining standards and guardrails. Application teams retain ownership of their code and production support, while a managed services partner operates the platform according to defined standards. The Senior Engineer will champion DevSecOps and shift-left practices, integrating security and compliance into automated pipelines, and fostering shared ownership across development, operations, and security teams. This role will manage competing priorities and deadlines, ensuring all recommendations comply with corporate policies and procedures, while upholding the company's culture essentials.

Requirements

Minimum 5 years in a corporate technology environment
Demonstrated hands-on experience building and operating CI/CD pipelines and Infrastructure as Code in production environments
Strong Linux and container/Kubernetes experience
Experience with public cloud platforms
Experience with VMware platforms and their container/Kubernetes capabilities
Experience implementing DevSecOps practices and automated compliance/security validation
Strong focus on Operational Excellence
Experience defining standards for and working alongside a managed services partner

Nice To Haves

Minimum of 5 years of hands-on experience in DevOps, platform engineering, site reliability, or infrastructure automation roles
Prior experience leading or mentoring a small technical team is preferred but not required
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) experience highly desirable
5+ years in the cruise line or hospitality industry is highly desirable

Responsibilities

Designs, builds, and implements the target DevOps operating model.
Delivers Infrastructure as Code and automated provisioning so environments are version-controlled, repeatable, and disposable, and establishes centralized secrets management, configuration management standards, and policy-as-code guardrails for security, cost, and compliance.
Replaces manual “ClickOps” processes and one-off solutions with standardized deployment pipelines, golden-path reference templates, and defined lifecycle management, including upgrade paths, version tracking, and integration into the broader delivery ecosystem.
Partners with business owners, IT product managers/business analysts, and infrastructure teams to scope and prioritize automation work.
Leads and manages a small team (3-5 FTEs and/or contract resources) responsible for DevOps and platform engineering, including setting expectations, offering feedback, nurturing professional growth, monitoring performance, resolving conflicts, and fostering cross-departmental collaboration.
Promotes continuous improvement and a shared-responsibility culture between development and operations to drive successful project execution.
Builds and operates CI/CD pipelines and platform automation to provide premium service to customers.
Automates provisioning, deployment, and scaling on the virtualization and container platform, including software-defined networking, load balancing, and the native Kubernetes/container stack.
Establishes monitoring, alerting, and performance optimization frameworks, including SLO/SLI-based reliability measurement and self-healing and high-availability patterns, and produces consistent, structured operational data for AIOps and AI-driven insights.
Performs proof-of-concepts for new business and technical use cases and serves as the L3 escalation point for platform and infrastructure issues, working with internal engineers and the managed services partner to resolve integration and performance issues.
Implements DevSecOps and shift-left practices: integrates security and compliance checks early in the development lifecycle and automates continuous validation of security policies within delivery pipelines.
Defines security policies and compliance measures in partnership with the Global Security team.
Develops comprehensive error handling, disaster recovery, and high-availability strategies within a robust security and compliance framework.
Represents DevOps on internal Architectural Review Boards and participates in code, configuration, and design reviews to ensure alignment with architectural and security standards.
Documents automation, pipelines, and platform processes in a standardized manner across Holland America IT, ensuring proper knowledge transfer.
Provides training, guidance, and support to engineering and operations teams on DevOps best practices, IaC, and containerization to reduce technical debt across the environment.