Senior DevOps Engineer

Why Ryan?

• Hybrid Work Options

• Award-Winning Culture

• Generous Personal Time Off (PTO) Benefits

• 14-Weeks of 100% Paid Leave for New Parents (Adoption Included)

• Monthly Gym Membership Reimbursement OR Gym Equipment Reimbursement

• Benefits Eligibility Effective Day One

• 401K with Employer Match

• Tuition Reimbursement After One Year of Service

• Fertility Assistance Program

• Four-Week Company-Paid Sabbatical Eligibility After Five Years of Service

Duties and Responsibilities, as They Align to Ryan’s Key Results

Key Responsibilities

People

• Champion a DevOps culture focused on an automation-first mindset, continuous improvement, collaboration, and transparency.

• Partner with development teams to improve reliability, performance, and deployment practices.

Client

Internal Developer Portal (IDP)

• Architect and implement an Internal Developer Portal to provide self-service infrastructure, application templates, and deployment workflows.

• Enable “golden paths” for engineering teams to accelerate onboarding and reduce cognitive load.

• Integrate the IDP with continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) systems, cloud infrastructure, identity management, and observability platforms.

• Maintain service catalogs, documentation standards, and ownership metadata.

• Continuously improve developer experience through feedback and platform enhancements.

Value

Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) Platform Engineering

• Design, implement, and maintain fully automated CI/CD pipelines for Java, .NET, and Node.js applications.

• Build standardized deployment workflows across Amazon Web Services (AWS) and/or Microsoft Azure environments.

• Implement automated testing, security scanning, and quality gates within pipelines.

• Establish reusable pipeline templates and shared libraries to enforce best practices.

• Optimize build and deployment performance, reliability, and observability.

Cloud and Infrastructure Automation

• Design and manage cloud infrastructure in AWS and/or Azure using infrastructure as code, with Terraform required.

• Build reusable Terraform modules and enforce governance through policy-as-code.

• Implement secure, scalable networking and cloud-native architecture patterns.

• Ensure high availability, scalability, and disaster recovery readiness.

DevOps and Platform Best Practices

• Implement monitoring, logging, and alerting strategies for both infrastructure and applications.

• Integrate DevSecOps practices, including vulnerability scanning and secrets management.

• Lead proof-of-concept initiatives to evaluate and introduce new tools, platforms, and automation processes.

Required Qualifications

• 10 or more years of progressive experience in software engineering, DevOps, cloud engineering, or platform engineering.

• Demonstrated evolution from software development into cloud infrastructure and automation.

• Six or more years of hands-on experience with CI/CD tools, such as Harness, CloudBees, Jenkins, and Azure DevOps, and modern software delivery practices.

• Deep development expertise in Java and/or Node.js application environments.

• Strong hands-on experience with AWS and/or Azure, including networking, serverless, and other managed cloud infrastructure.

• Advanced proficiency with Terraform and infrastructure as code principles.

• Experience designing scalable cloud-native architectures.

• Strong knowledge of Windows Server and Microsoft SQL Server, including SQL Server Availability Groups.

• Strong scripting skills using Python, PowerShell, Bash, or similar technologies.

• Experience with automation technologies such as Terraform, Ansible, and AWS CloudFormation.

• Strong understanding of secure software delivery, Git branching strategies, and DevSecOps practices.

• Experience with containerization technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes.

• Experience leading technical evaluations and proof-of-concept initiatives for new tools and processes.

• Excellent collaboration skills with the ability to work cross-functionally across engineering, security, and operations teams.

• Clear, transparent communication style with a bias toward documentation and shared ownership.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience building or implementing a commercial Internal Developer Portal, such as Harness IDP, Port, or a similar platform.

• Experience implementing platform engineering concepts and developer self-service models.

• Familiarity with service mesh, application programming interface (API) gateways, or cloud-native networking.

• Experience implementing security automation and compliance guardrails.

• Knowledge of observability platforms, including Datadog, Prometheus, Elasticsearch, Logstash, and Kibana (ELK), and cloud-native tools.

• Experience in multicloud or hybrid cloud environments.

Education and Experience

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in computer science, engineering, mathematics, information systems, or a related technical field.

Certificates and Licenses

• Valid driver’s license required.

• AWS and/or Azure certifications preferred; professional-level or specialty certifications preferred.

• Additional certifications in DevOps, Kubernetes, or cloud technologies are a plus.

Supervisory Responsibilities

This position has no supervisory responsibilities.

Work Environment

• Standard indoor working environment.

• Occasional long periods of sitting while working at a computer.

• Position requires regular interaction with employees at all levels of the Firm, as well as interaction with external vendors and clients as necessary.

• Independent travel requirement: up to 10%.

Compensation Pay Transparency

• For certain California based roles, the base salary hiring range for this position is $124,000.00 - $163,900.00

• For other California based roles, the base salary hiring range for this position is $114,000.00 - $150,700.00

• For Colorado based roles, the base salary hiring range for this position is $109,000.00 - $144,100.00

• For Illinois based roles, the base salary hiring range for this position is $114,000.00 - $150,700.00

• For other Illinois based roles, the base salary hiring range for this position is $109,000.00 - $144,100.00

• For Maryland based roles, the base salary hiring range for this position is $109,000.00 - $144,100.00

• For Massachusetts based roles, the base salary hiring range for this position is $114,000.00 - $150,700.00

• For other Massachusetts based roles, the base salary hiring range for this position is $109,000.00 - $144,100.00

• For New Jersey based roles, the base salary hiring range for this position is $124,000.00 - $163,900.00

• For New York based roles, the base salary hiring range for this position is $124,000.00 - $163,900.00

• For other New York based roles, the base salary hiring range for this position is $103,000.00 - $136,400.00

• For Washington based roles, the base salary hiring range for this position is $114,000.00 - $150,700.00

Equal Opportunity Employer: disability/veteran

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