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Summary: We are seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer to join our Platform DevOps team, focusing on improving the software development lifecycle for engineering teams. The role involves designing and operating scalable CI/CD systems, cloud infrastructure, and developer tooling, collaborating closely with Software Engineering and Site Reliability Engineering teams.
Responsibilities:
- Design, build, and maintain CI/CD pipelines across multiple engineering teams.
- Support and optimize CircleCI and hybrid CI environments, including self-hosted runners and executors.
- Collaborate with Software Engineering and SRE teams to enhance build, test, and deployment workflows.
- Develop automation and tooling using Go, or be willing to work with Go and AI-assisted coding tools such as Claude.
- Provision and manage infrastructure configurations using Terraform.
- Build and maintain containerized workloads with Docker and Kubernetes.
- Implement CI/CD security best practices, including secrets management and vulnerability scanning.
- Troubleshoot build failures, infrastructure issues, and deployment bottlenecks.
- Enhance reliability, scalability, and developer experience across the software delivery lifecycle.
- Contribute to architectural decisions and technical standards across the platform.
Required Skills:
- 5+ years of experience in DevOps, Platform Engineering, Site Reliability Engineering, or a related role.
- Strong experience with CircleCI or a similar SaaS CI/CD platform (e.g., GitHub Actions, GitLab CI).
- Solid understanding of CI/CD design patterns and best practices.
- Software engineering background with coding proficiency.
- Comfortable with Go or a strong willingness to learn quickly.
- Experience in AWS-based environments or similar cloud platforms.
- Hands-on experience with Terraform.
- Practical experience with Docker and Kubernetes in production.
- Experience supporting developer and SRE workflows.
- Familiarity with Git and version control workflows.
Preferred Skills:
- Experience with Chainguard container images.
- Experience with GitOps tools such as Argo CD or Flux.
- Familiarity with CI/CD security concepts, including IAM, OIDC, and supply chain security.
- Exposure to observability tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, and OpenTelemetry.
Advantages:
- Experience building internal developer platforms or self-service tooling.
- Experience improving build performance and developer productivity.
- Knowledge of secure software supply chain practices.
- Experience operating cloud-native SaaS platforms at scale.
SolarWinds is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer. SolarWinds will consider all qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, disability, veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law.
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Skills Required
- Experience operating Kubernetes in production
- Experience in AWS and/or Azure environments
- Experience with multiple programming languages in large-scale systems
- Experience building or operating Internal Developer Portals
- Experience running distributed test infrastructure
- Familiarity with CI/CD integration patterns
SolarWinds Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about SolarWinds and has not been reviewed or approved by SolarWinds.
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Healthcare Strength — Health coverage is described as comprehensive, with some locations covering healthcare, dental, and vision at 100% and generally well-regarded plan quality. Feedback suggests wellness resources, counseling, and fitness reimbursements further strengthen the offering.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Paid time off, holidays, and a sabbatical after five years are part of the package. Feedback suggests global parental leave minimums add meaningful family support to the overall time-off mix.
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Pay Growth & Progression — Compensation is considered solid by many, with consistent raises noted alongside base pay. Feedback suggests bonuses and structured increases contribute to a sense of ongoing pay growth.
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What We Do
SolarWinds is a leading provider of powerful and affordable IT management software. Our products give organizations worldwide—regardless of type, size, or complexity—the power to monitor and manage their IT services, infrastructures, and applications; whether on-premises, in the cloud, or via hybrid models. We continuously engage with technology professionals—IT service and operations professionals, DevOps professionals, and managed services providers (MSPs)—to understand the challenges they face in maintaining high-performing and highly available IT infrastructures and applications. The insights we gain from them, in places like our THWACK® community, allow us to solve well-understood IT management challenges in the ways technology professionals want them solved. Our focus on the user and commitment to excellence in end-to-end hybrid IT management has established SolarWinds as a worldwide leader in solutions for network and IT service management, application performance, and managed services.
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