- Company Name
- Inside Higher Ed
- Job Title
- DevOps Engineer
- Job Description
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**Job Title**
Senior DevOps Engineer
**Role Summary**
Senior DevOps Engineer responsible for designing, automating, and maintaining cloud infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, and internal APIs across Google Cloud Platform, Google Workspace, and other public clouds. Focuses on secure, scalable, and reliable delivery of services for academic and administrative workloads.
**Expectations**
- Lead end‑to‑end design and deployment of DevOps solutions.
- Drive continuous improvement of release processes and infrastructure reliability.
- Mentor junior engineers and foster cross‑functional collaboration.
**Key Responsibilities**
- Design, implement, and maintain CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, Jenkins, GitLab CI).
- Automate infrastructure provisioning with IaC tools (Terraform, Pulumi, CloudFormation).
- Build, deploy, and manage containerized workloads using Docker and orchestrators (Kubernetes, ECS, GKE).
- Develop and expose REST/GraphQL APIs (Python, Go, Node.js) and integrate them with internal systems.
- Manage Google Workspace integration—API access, Directory provisioning, automation scripts.
- Monitor system health with Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, or Datadog; enforce observability.
- Implement security controls: IAM, secrets management, compliance enforcement.
- Collaborate with Security, Engineering, and IT teams for risk mitigation.
- Participate in 24x7 on‑call rotation, incident response, root‑cause analysis, and DR testing.
- Produce clear documentation of infrastructure, processes, and API contracts.
**Required Skills**
- • 5+ years of DevOps / SRE / Platform Engineering experience.
- • Hands‑on with GCP (preferred), AWS, or Azure; Cloud-native tooling expertise.
- • Strong API development in Python, Go, or Node.js.
- • Proficiency with CI/CD tools (GitHub Actions, Jenkins, GitLab CI).
- • Experience in IaC (Terraform, Pulumi, CloudFormation, Ansible).
- • Containerization (Docker) and orchestration (Kubernetes, ECS, GKE).
- • Linux administration, networking, and cloud security fundamentals.
- • Proven integration and automation of Google Workspace (Directory API, Service Automation).
- • Observability stack skills (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, Datadog).
- • Strong troubleshooting, debugging, and documentation capabilities.
**Required Education & Certifications**
- • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field *or* equivalent professional experience.
- • 8 years of combined education and professional experience overall.
- • Preferred: GCP, Google Workspace Administrator, or related cloud certification.
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