Job Specifications
Role: Senior DevOps Engineer
Location: New York, NY
Job Type: Fulltime - Onsite
We are seeking an experienced Senior DevOps Engineer to take ownership of designing, building, and maintaining our hybrid infrastructure, spanning both cloud and on-premises environments. In this hands-on role, you will manage IoT devices at scale, build tooling for deployment and monitoring, and lead key modernization projects from initial architecture through production rollout. You will work closely with cross-functional teams to deliver secure, reliable, and scalable systems, while mentoring teammates and driving best practices across the engineering organization.
Job Responsibilities:
Design, build, and maintain infrastructure across both cloud and on-premise environments, ensuring reliability, security, and scalability.
Develop tools to improve deployment, management, and monitoring of customer-premise equipment, IoT devices, and backend systems.
Lead system architecture and modernization initiatives from design through production operation.
Enhance overall observability and monitoring for infrastructure and IoT devices using custom tooling and off-the-shelf solutions.
Implement secure connectivity solutions enabling robust device-to-cloud communication.
Mentor and guide team members, promoting best practices in monitoring, system design, and infrastructure engineering.
Collaborate with DevOps and development teams to tightly integrate infrastructure with CI/CD pipelines for seamless deployments and upgrades.
Required Qualifications/Skills:
5+ years of experience in Infrastructure Engineering, SRE, or DevOps roles.
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience.
Strong experience managing servers and/or IoT devices at scale.
Software development skills for building infrastructure automation (Python required).
Hands-on expertise with AWS services.
Demonstrated experience managing and securing hybrid (Cloud + On-Premises) environments.
Familiarity with IaC (Infrastructure as Code) tools such as Terraform, Ansible, CDK, etc.
Strong Linux systems knowledge and networking fundamentals (Docker, firewalls, load balancers, VPNs).
Background in monitoring, alerting, and troubleshooting large-scale distributed systems.
Ability to thrive in fast-paced, production-critical environments.
Excellent communication skills and a collaborative, proactive mindset.
Preferred Qualifications:
Experience with AWS IoT services (e.g., Greengrass v2).
Knowledge of secure infrastructure design best practices.
Experience managing and supporting edge devices at scale.
Why Join Us?
Opportunity to lead impactful modernization initiatives.
Work with cutting-edge cloud, IoT, and hybrid infrastructure technologies.
Collaborative, forward-thinking engineering culture.
High autonomy and ownership of system design and improvements.
About the Company
Softcom Systems Inc is headquartered in Princeton, NJ serving the US market for the last 20 years. Apart from United States, we also serve the global market from our Canada, London and India offices. Our service offerings include:
* Application Development, Maintenance and Support
* Digital Consulting - Social, Mobile, Big Data, Cloud, Agile
* Business Intelligence and Analytics
* Digital Testing which includes Independent, Managed & Specialized testing services
* Enterprise solutions - SAP
* CRM solutions - Salesforce
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