Senior DevSecOps Engineer

PCG•Lenexa, KS

About The Position

The Senior DevOps Engineer is an experienced individual contributor who advances the organization’s DevOps capabilities into modern cloud engineering, platform engineering, reliability engineering, and AI-enabled operations. The role serves as a technical escalation point for DevOps Engineers, designs repeatable and secure automation patterns, improves developer experience through self-service platforms, and partners with application, infrastructure, security, and operations teams to improve delivery speed, reliability, scalability, and operational maturity across non-production and production environments. The position leads complex technical problem resolution, develops and maintains secure CI/CD pipelines and Infrastructure as Code, contributes to cloud and platform engineering, and applies Site Reliability Engineering practices. It improves observability, supports resilient deployment and operational patterns across cloud, on-premises, hybrid, and enterprise application environments, and integrates security and compliance controls into automation and platform services. The role also uses AI-enabled tools responsibly, supports containerization and cloud-native practices where appropriate, maintains technical documentation and operational standards, and evaluates tools and practices that improve delivery and operations. Participation in incident response, release support, and after-hours escalation may be required for critical issues.

Requirements

5–7 years of progressive experience in DevOps, systems engineering, cloud engineering, platform engineering, infrastructure automation, software delivery, or related information technology roles.
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent combination of education and relevant experience.
Demonstrated experience designing, supporting, and improving CI/CD pipelines, automation frameworks, cloud or hybrid infrastructure, and operational tooling.
Experience with enterprise applications, databases, middleware, ERP platforms, or business-critical systems in development, test, staging, or production environments.
Experience mentoring engineers, leading technical improvements, creating standards, and influencing adoption of modern delivery and reliability practices without direct people-management responsibility.
Strong understanding of modern DevOps practices, Agile delivery, release management, infrastructure automation, and operational support models.
Hands-on experience with CI/CD tools such as Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, GitLab CI, or similar platforms.
Ability to write, troubleshoot, and maintain automation using PowerShell, Python, Bash, SQL, YAML, JSON, or similar scripting and configuration languages.
Working knowledge of cloud platforms and services, preferably Microsoft Azure, including compute, storage, networking, identity, security, monitoring, and cost optimization concepts.
Experience with Infrastructure as Code and configuration management tools such as Terraform, Bicep, ARM templates, Ansible, or equivalent technologies.
Understanding of platform engineering principles, including reusable templates, internal developer platforms, self-service workflows, paved-road patterns, and developer experience improvements.
Knowledge of Site Reliability Engineering practices, including observability, incident response, post-incident reviews, reliability targets, capacity planning, and toil reduction.
Familiarity with monitoring, logging, tracing, and alerting tools such as Azure Monitor, Application Insights, Log Analytics, Grafana, Prometheus, OpenTelemetry, Splunk, LogicMonitor, or similar solutions.
Working knowledge of containers, orchestration, artifact repositories, deployment packaging, and cloud-native application patterns.
Understanding of DevSecOps practices, including secure pipeline design, secrets management, identity and access controls, vulnerability scanning, and compliance automation.
Ability to apply AI-assisted tools for engineering, operations, documentation, and troubleshooting while maintaining appropriate security, validation, and governance practices.
Strong analytical, troubleshooting, communication, and documentation skills, with the ability to work independently on complex technical initiatives.
Demonstrable adaptability and flexibility in a fast-paced work environment.
Adherence to high standards of safety, quality, reliability, and professionalism.
Local to the KC metro area.

Nice To Haves

Preferred certifications may include Microsoft Azure Administrator, Azure DevOps Engineer Expert, Azure Solutions Architect, HashiCorp Terraform Associate, Kubernetes, SRE, Agile, DevOps, or related industry certifications.

Responsibilities

Serve as the senior technical escalation point for DevOps Engineers and project teams, mentoring on automation, cloud platform design, deployment reliability, observability, and operational best practices.
Lead root cause analysis for complex environment, deployment, infrastructure, performance, and reliability issues, and communicate impact, mitigation, and corrective actions.
Design, implement, and maintain secure, repeatable, observable CI/CD pipelines for application, infrastructure, database, and configuration changes.
Engineer Infrastructure as Code and automation to provision, configure, and manage cloud and hybrid environments.
Contribute to cloud engineering initiatives involving scalable, secure, and cost-aware compute, storage, networking, identity, monitoring, and backup/recovery solutions.
Build reusable templates, deployment patterns, self-service workflows, shared tooling, and documentation to improve platform engineering and developer experience.
Apply Site Reliability Engineering practices, including service-level indicators and objectives, error budgets, incident response, post-incident reviews, capacity planning, and toil reduction.
Implement and maintain logging, metrics, tracing, dashboards, alerting, and telemetry to improve detection, diagnosis, and recovery.
Partner with development, infrastructure, database, security, and service desk teams to develop resilient deployment and operational patterns.
Automate environment provisioning and refreshes, patching, release readiness, configuration consistency, service account management, and test data management.
Integrate security and compliance controls into pipelines, automation frameworks, and platform services, including secrets management, identity and access controls, vulnerability checks, policy enforcement, and audit readiness.
Use AI-enabled engineering and operations tools responsibly to support troubleshooting, repetitive-task automation, documentation, telemetry analysis, and developer productivity while maintaining data security and human review.
Support containerization and cloud-native practices where appropriate, including Docker, Kubernetes, orchestration, artifact management, image scanning, and deployment standardization.
Create and maintain technical documentation, runbooks, knowledge base articles, architecture diagrams, and operational standards.
Research, evaluate, and recommend tools, patterns, and practices to improve software delivery, reliability, cloud operations, developer experience, and operational efficiency.
Participate in incident response, release support, and after-hours escalation as needed for critical environment, deployment, or production-impacting issues.
Complete all other duties as assigned.