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Job Summary
Responsible for bridging software development and IT operations, for engineering teams to deliver applications faster, more reliably, and with higher quality. Automates CI/CD and infrastructure, establishes best practices in monitoring, reliability, and incident response for all systems.
Major Tasks, Responsibilities and Key Accountabilities
Design and operate cloud infrastructure to host front-ends, API layers, and platform integrations, ensuring high availability, security, and scalability. Containerize services and operate container orchestration platforms and manage container registries.
Collaborate closely with product, frontend, backend, QA, and vendor support specialists to enable page-level launches and maintain performance SLAs.
Build and maintain infrastructure as code to provision and manage production and non-production environments.
Create and maintain robust CI/CD pipelines for frequent, safe deployments of page-level changes and backend services.
Harden platform and application security, manage secrets, and support compliance efforts.
Build observability, monitoring, logging, tracing, and alerting.
Automate repeatable runbooks and incident response; participate in on-call rotations and post-incident reviews.
Implement deployment strategies that support page-by-page migration, including rollback safety, canary/blue-green releases, and feature-flag-driven launches.
Nature and Scope
Consults with senior management on solution development for complex strategic and technical business issues. Independently solves unique and complex problems that have a broad impact on the business. Assignments are large scope, high impact, high cost, and high importance.
Establishes operational plans for assigned area. Acts as a strategic advisor and uses expert skills to contribute to the development of strategic company objectives. Receives general administrative and business direction as needed. Typically operates with broad latitude in a complex environment.
Guides and mentors staff at all levels, provides advice to senior management on complex and strategic issues, and may lead or manage complex projects with dotted line responsibility.
Work Environment
Located in a comfortable indoor area. Any unpleasant conditions would be infrequent and not objectionable.
Most of the time is spent sitting in a comfortable position and there is frequent opportunity to move about. On rare occasions there may be a need to move or lift light articles.
Typically requires overnight travel less than 10% of the time.
Education and Experience
Typically requires a bachelor’s degree and 10+ years of experience in a related field OR MS/MA and generally 8+ years of experience in a related field. Maintains expert knowledge in area of responsibility with a strong understanding in adjacent areas for the development of creative solutions.
Preferred Qualifications
Strong experience with AWS, Azure, or GCP — including core services (compute, networking, load balancers, CDN, databases). Azure experience preferred.
Hands-on experience containerizing applications (Docker) and operating Kubernetes in production (EKS/AKS/GKE).
Proven experience building and operating CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, CircleCI, etc.).
Experience implementing deployment strategies such as canary, blue/green, rolling, and feature-flag driven releases.
Experience with performance tuning and capacity planning for web applications.
Experience with Azure middleware and platform services (Azure App Service, Azure API Management, Azure Functions, Service Bus, Logic Apps.
Strong Linux administration, networking, and security fundamentals (firewalls, VPC/VNet, IAM, TLS, secrets management).
Demonstrated skills in observability and incident management (metrics, logs, tracing, alerting, runbooks).
Solid scripting and programming skills (Bash, Python, Node.js/TypeScript or similar) to automate tasks and build tooling.
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