Senior Devops Engineer
Sailes
Software Engineering
Alpharetta, GA, USA
Posted on Mar 9, 2026
We are looking for an experienced Senior DevOps Engineer to design, implement, and manage scalable, secure, and highly available infrastructure. The ideal candidate will have deep expertise in CI/CD pipelines, cloud platforms, automation, and modern DevOps/SRE best practices. You will collaborate closely with development, QA, and operations teams to ensure efficient delivery, reliability, and continuous improvement across our systems.
Key Responsibilities
Infrastructure & Cloud Management
Key Responsibilities
Infrastructure & Cloud Management
- Architect, deploy, and manage scalable cloud infrastructure (AWS/Azure/GCP)
- Implement IaC using Terraform / CloudFormation / Ansible
- Optimize cloud costs, resource utilization, and system performance
- Design high availability, disaster recovery, and backup strategies
- Build and maintain robust CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Azure DevOps)
- Automate release processes, testing, and environment provisioning
- Enable zero-downtime deployments and canary/blue-green rollout strategies
- Set up end-to-end observability (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK/EFK, CloudWatch, Datadog, New Relic)
- Proactively detect and troubleshoot system bottlenecks, incidents, and outages
- Establish SRE practices: SLIs, SLOs, error budgets, incident management
- Implement DevSecOps practices vulnerability scanning, patching, secrets management
- Manage IAM roles, security groups, authentication, and access policies
- Ensure compliance with security standards (SOC2, ISO, GDPR, HIPAA depending on org)
- Manage Dockerized applications and Kubernetes clusters (EKS, AKS, GKE, self-managed)
- Implement service mesh, autoscaling, and cluster maintenance strategies
- Work closely with developers to optimize application performance and reliability
- Mentor junior DevOps engineers and drive best practices
- Participate in on-call rotations and lead incident resolutions
- 5+ years of DevOps/SRE experience in cloud-based environments
- Strong hands-on experience with AWS/Azure/GCP
- Deep understanding of CI/CD systems and automation tools
- Solid scripting skills (Python, Bash, Shell, Go optional)
- Experience with Kubernetes, Docker, and microservices architecture
- Strong knowledge of networking, Linux administration, and system internals
- Familiarity with GitOps workflows (ArgoCD/FluxCD)
- Excellent problem-solving, communication, and collaboration skills