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Senior DevOps Engineer
Posted on 30 October 25 by Megan Melcher
- Grand Rapids, Michigan
- $ - $
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Job Description
Description: We are seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer to help accelerate our DevOps capabilities and support multiple agile teams in delivering high-quality features and services. This role is hands-on and focused on implementing automation, improving CI/CD pipelines, and enhancing resiliency across a multi-cloud environment. A large focus for this role will be in supporting automation efforts and key initiatives within DevOps to improve developer experience and increase our speed and agility.
Responsibilities/skills:
- Design and implement automation that improves developer experience, accelerates delivery, and increases platform resiliency.
- Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines leveraging GitHub Actions and Azure DevOps for secure, scalable, and repeatable delivery patterns.
- Implement GitOps practices using Argo CD and Kubernetes for deployment automation
- Develop scripts and tooling (PowerShell, Python, Bash) to automate repetitive tasks and optimize workflows.
- Create templates and automation to enable developer self-service for repos, pipelines, and containers.
- Support agile teams with repo/pipeline setups and partner with teams to ensure successful deployments to production.
- Troubleshoot build and deployment issues across development teams and provide hands-on support.
- Collaborate with platform and architecture teams on multi-cloud strategies (Azure and GCP).
- Implement additional capabilities within RedHat OpenShift to improve utilization of K8S (e.g., Advanced Cluster Management, Custom Metrics Autoscaler).
- Support critical release activities and ensure smooth, reliable deployments; willing to support releases up to 2–3 nights per week.
- Contribute to documentation and guardrails that improve efficiency, security, and reliability.
Qualifications:
- 5+ years of experience in DevOps or platform engineering roles with strong software engineering fundamentals.
- Strong engineering mindset—not just manual DevOps experience.
- Expertise in:
- Kubernetes (K8S) and GitOps (Argo CD preferred)
- RedHat OpenShift experience
- GitHub Actions and Azure DevOps Pipelines
- Azure PaaS services; GCP experience is a plus
- Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, YAML)
- Strong scripting skills (PowerShell, Python, Bash).
- Well versed in building, running, debugging apps in C#/.NET, Java, Node.js, TypeScript, etc.
- Experience supporting distributed systems in a multi-cloud environment; multi-cloud active-active experience preferred.
- Solid understanding of CI/CD principles and agile delivery practices; working in a SAFe agile environment is a plus.
- Excellent collaboration and troubleshooting skills.
- Ability to work independently and deliver solutions in a fast-paced environment.