Senior Software Engineer- DevOps

Four Sea Group, Inc. • Aurora, CO, SD

3d • $140,000 - $232,000 • Onsite

About The Position

Four Sea Group is seeking a Senior Software Engineer specializing in DevOps to define and advance secure, reliable, and repeatable software-delivery and infrastructure capabilities for complex customer programs. The role contributes to rapidly maturing and deploying mission-critical software by establishing and improving approaches for infrastructure provisioning, continuous integration and deployment, containerization, monitoring, configuration management, and embedded security. The engineer develops reusable automation and technical standards while addressing difficult problems across software development, infrastructure, integration, test, and cybersecurity teams.

The ideal candidate has deep Terraform expertise and strong AWS, Kubernetes, Linux, CI/CD, and automation experience. Depending on experience and demonstrated scope, the engineer may own major platform or infrastructure areas, define reusable technical approaches and standards, guide other engineers, or serve as a technical authority on complex DevOps and software-delivery challenges. The role requires independent technical judgment and systems thinking, balancing reliability, security, scalability, schedule, cost, and mission requirements.

The position requires in-person work in Aurora and is not eligible for virtual work.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Computer Engineering, Information Technology, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• Typically 8+ years of relevant software engineering, DevOps, platform engineering, cloud engineering, infrastructure automation, or automated software-delivery experience; level is determined by demonstrated technical scope, complexity, autonomy, and leadership.
• Active DoD TS/SCI with CI Poly security clearance at the time of application.
• Current Security+ certification.
• Strong hands-on experience using Terraform to provision and manage infrastructure.
• Strong experience administering and supporting AWS environments.
• Advanced experience deploying, administering, and troubleshooting Kubernetes environments.
• Linux administration and troubleshooting experience.
• Advanced experience designing, implementing, and maintaining CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, GitLab CI, Bamboo, or comparable technologies.
• Strong scripting and automation experience using Bash, Python, PowerShell, or a comparable language.
• Experience automating software builds, testing, security scans, quality checks, deployments, infrastructure provisioning, and system-management activities.
• Experience with Git-based version control and collaborative software-development workflows.
• Experience defining or implementing build, deployment, provisioning, and monitoring standards in a complex software-delivery environment.
• Experience integrating automated testing, code-quality, code-coverage, static-analysis, or security tools into delivery pipelines.
• Strong understanding of DevSecOps principles and integration of security controls into software-delivery workflows.
• Experience with at least three of the following: Flux, Helm, DynamoDB, NATS, Big Bang, Grafana, Prometheus, Loki, Jenkins, GitLab, or Bamboo.
• Ability to independently own a major DevOps, platform, infrastructure, or software-delivery area and determine technical approaches.
• Ability to independently resolve difficult issues across infrastructure, pipelines, deployments, containers, cloud platforms, applications, networking, monitoring, and security controls.
• Ability to assess system or application performance, identify bottlenecks or operational risks, and implement solutions in collaboration with development teams.
• Ability to communicate technical decisions, risks, dependencies, and tradeoffs across engineering and program teams.
• Experience providing technical guidance or coordinating work across multiple engineering disciplines.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to work in person in Aurora; the position is not eligible for virtual work.

Nice To Haves

• Advanced Terraform experience, including developing or maintaining reusable modules, standards, or provisioning patterns.
• Experience implementing GitOps workflows using Flux or comparable technologies.
• Experience developing and maintaining Helm charts or Helm-based deployment patterns.
• Experience administering or supporting DynamoDB.
• Experience configuring or supporting NATS.
• Experience with Big Bang or comparable secure Kubernetes platform environments.
• Experience implementing observability and monitoring solutions using Grafana, Prometheus, Loki, or comparable technologies.
• Experience defining or supporting security, backup, redundancy, and recovery strategies for mission-critical systems.
• Experience developing software or infrastructure capabilities for U.S. Government, defense, intelligence, or other secure mission environments.
• Experience improving system efficiency and reducing manual intervention through automation.
• Experience supporting production systems, troubleshooting incidents, analyzing performance, and restoring degraded services.
• Experience providing technical guidance or mentoring software, DevOps, platform, or infrastructure engineers.
• Experience defining reusable DevOps, infrastructure, platform, or deployment standards used across a broader engineering team or program.
• Experience architecting solutions to complex or ambiguous infrastructure and software-delivery problems across multiple technical domains.
• Experience serving as a trusted technical resource for engineering, program, cybersecurity, or customer stakeholders.
• Experience working across software development, integration, test, infrastructure, and cybersecurity teams.
• Experience with SAFe or another scaled Agile framework.

Responsibilities

• Define and improve secure, reliable, and repeatable software-delivery and infrastructure capabilities.
• Establish and improve technical approaches for infrastructure provisioning, CI/CD, containerization, monitoring, configuration management, and embedded security.
• Develop reusable automation and technical standards.
• Own major platform, infrastructure, or software-delivery areas and determine appropriate technical approaches.
• Resolve complex issues spanning infrastructure, pipelines, deployments, containers, cloud platforms, applications, networking, monitoring, and security controls.
• Evaluate system or application performance, identify bottlenecks and operational risks, and implement solutions with development teams.
• Communicate technical decisions, risks, dependencies, and tradeoffs across engineering and program teams.
• Provide technical guidance or coordinate work across engineering disciplines.

Benefits

• Employee ownership through a 100% ESOP-owned company.
• Competitive compensation.
• Strong employer-funded retirement plan.
• Generous PTO and flexible time-off options.
• Comprehensive health, dental, vision, life, short-term disability, and long-term disability benefits.
• Generous medical stipend.
• Opportunities to work with experienced engineers and technical leaders, with room to grow as a technical expert, mentor, program contributor, or future leader.

What This Job Offers

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