Sr Dev Ops Engineer

Engie•Boston, MA

3d•$111,000 - $156,000

About The Position

The Role: This role reports to VP, Enterprise Architecture Preferred candidate to be located in Spokane, WA or Boston, MA. This senior technical role spans infrastructure, reliability, software delivery, and cost optimization, focusing on designing and maintaining hybrid environments (cloud and on-prem) with scalability, security, and resilience. It drives automation, CI/CD, and rapid incident resolution while championing FinOps principles to balance performance and cost through cloud governance. Success depends on collaboration across teams and continuous improvement, with mentoring responsibilities included.

Requirements

Bachelor’s Degree required in one of the following fields; computer science or related field
Minimum 7 years of experience in Information Technology
At least 7 years of systems engineering, software engineering or DevOps engineering experience
Advanced knowledge and expertise in DevOps practices
Advanced experience using infrastructure automation tools such as Terraform, Git, Chef, Puppet, and Ansible
Advanced experience with vulnerability scanners and remediation.
Expert with cloud services (AWS or Azure)
Advance experience with containerization
Advanced knowledge with Microsoft Windows, Active Directory
Advance experience with VMWare, Enterprise Class Servers and Storage
Experience with ISO/SSAE16/NIST or equivalent compliance is preferred
Advanced knowledge of firewalls, load balancers, VLANs, managed switches and routers
Familiarity with ITIL framework
Strong communication and interpersonal skills with all levels of management
Excellent troubleshooting and analytical skills
Effectively work and contribute as part of a team
Ability to support/oversee multiple projects simultaneously
Up-to-date on latest industry trends; able to articulate trends and potential clearly and confidently
Expert in coding and scripting (i.e. PowerShell, Python, Perl, Ruby, etc.)
Client relations skills

Nice To Haves

Master’s Degree preferred in one of the following fields; computer science or related field
Azure/AWS Certifications preferred
Background with Agile, Scrum, and Lean are a plus
Ability to speak French and Spanish languages are a plus
Experience with Microsoft Office suite of products
May consider a combination of relevant experience with educational and other skills and abilities in lieu of educational requirements

Responsibilities

Maintain and patch systems, ensuring compliance and high availability.
Implement and test disaster recovery strategies for hybrid environments.
Optimize infrastructure resource allocation, performance, scalability, and fault tolerance across hybrid environments.
Automate repetitive tasks to reduce manual intervention.
Set up monitoring tools to track system health across cloud and on-prem environments.
Define and measure SLIs/SLOs for critical services.
Monitor application performance, latency, and resource utilization.
Create actionable alerts and dashboards for system and cost performance.
Automate incident response, monitoring, and alerting.
Diagnose and develop fixes to be implemented quickly and efficiently for production incidents.
Participate in a 24x7 on-call rotation for incident management.
Implement security best practices across the infrastructure stack.
Perform vulnerability assessments and manage access controls.
Ensure compliance with industry standards (GDPR, SOC 1, SOC 2, etc.).
Bridge gaps between development, infrastructure, IT support, operations, and other teams to ensure seamless delivery.
Provide technical guidance and mentorship to other DevOps Engineers.
Communicate technical insights effectively to stakeholders.
Foster a culture of knowledge sharing and collaboration.
Be an active contributor in the DevOps Community of Practice.
Design, deploy, and maintain infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code (e.g., Terraform) for cloud environments.
Manage identity and access solutions, including Microsoft Entra ID (Azure AD), and Okta.
Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines for efficient software delivery.
Collaborate with development teams to integrate automated testing and deployment.
Champion a culture of continuous integration, delivery, and improvement.
Monitor and analyze cloud usage and costs across AWS and Azure.
Implement cost optimization strategies (rightsizing, reserved instances, autoscaling).
Enforce mandatory tagging for cost allocation and governance.
Develop dashboards and reports to provide visibility into cloud spend for stakeholders.
Collaborate with finance and engineering teams to forecast budgets and track variances.
Establish governance policies for cloud resource provisioning and cost accountability.
Respond to cost anomalies and recommend corrective actions.
Advocate for FinOps principles within engineering teams to balance performance and cost.
Provision and manage on-premise infrastructure in data centers, including servers, storage, and networking.
Build and maintain virtual machine templates for consistent deployments.
Manage identity and access solutions, including Active Directory and Okta.
Implement cost optimization strategies (rightsizing).