Staff DevOps Engineer

Staff DevOps Engineer

Job Description

We are looking for a self-motivated Staff DevOps Engineer to join our API Gateway team to help us drive results throughout our organization. The ideal candidate will have a blend of patience, empathy, development and operational experience to drive collaboration with other DevOps engineers and cross functional teams to identify and build best practices, monitoring solutions and operational excellence within the teams they are assigned. Specific emphasis in this role should be put on using AI to automate the most common DevOps tasks.

Responsibilities:

• Automate the deployment, configuration and management of cloud infrastructure (primarily in AWS) using agentic AI
• Work as part of a product delivery team, and work closely with application development teams to ensure on time product delivery, secure, high availability and performance of product functions, and operation cost effectiveness.
• Help with product deployment, monitoring and troubleshooting, including building dashboards and alerts, and automating support tasks when feasible.
• Stay on top of the most relevant, industry leading technologies and techniques to ensure a streamlined, efficient and productive development and operational environment.
• Turn requirements gathering sessions into outcomes.
• Bringing in other business functions as necessary to build holistic pipelines.
• Operational support of enterprise API Gateway

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, or related field
• 4 or more years of experience in IT industry, preferably five years.
• 2+ years’ experience with AWS services, certification preferred.
• 2+ years’ experience with Kubernetes.
• 2+ years’ hands-on experience with Python, JavaScript, or Go.
• 2+ years’ experience building and managing Docker containers.
• 2+ years’ experience with enterprise grade API Gateway (Mulesoft, Apigee, Kong, Tyk)
• 2+ years’ experience building CI/CD pipelines from scratch.
• Demonstrated experience building Generative and Agentic AI based solutions
• Experience with MCP
• Experience building cloud infrastructure as code, with tools like Terraform.
• Strong understanding of DevOps principles.
• Strong understanding of security within the DevOps space, and be able to
• Knowledge and experience in zero downtime deployment strategies.
• Experience working in and reporting on large or complex projects.
• Comfort with collaboration, open communication and reaching across functional borders.
• Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written across all levels of the organization.