The Role
The Staff DevOps Engineer will design and implement robust infrastructure, mentor engineers, improve platform reliability, and ensure service availability. The role involves automation, CI/CD, and cross-functional collaboration.
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At Cision, we believe in empowering every individual to make an impact. Here, your voice is heard, your ideas are valued, and your unique perspective fuels our collective success. As part of our global team, you'll thrive in an environment that champions curiosity, collaboration, and innovation, all while making meaningful contributions to the brands we accelerate.
Join us in shaping the future of communication and building authentic connections that matter. Whether you're solving complex problems or driving bold innovations, your growth is our success, and together, we’ll create the conversations of tomorrow.
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We’re looking for an accomplished Staff DevOps Engineer to help shape and evolve our cloud, DevOps, and SRE platforms. In this role, you will design and implement the tools, automation, and infrastructure that support reliable, secure, and scalable service delivery across our environments. You will play a key role in improving platform reliability, operational efficiency, scalability, and consistency, working across teams to deliver resilient and well-governed solutions. Reporting to the Cloud DevOps Manager, you will also mentor other engineers and help drive best practice across cloud infrastructure, automation, CI/CD, and site reliability engineering.
What you’ll do
- Lead the design, implementation, and ongoing improvement of reliable, scalable, performant, and secure production platforms and services.
- Work closely with cross-functional teams to build and maintain resilient infrastructure and deployment patterns.
- Provide technical leadership and mentorship to engineers across the organisation, promoting strong engineering standards and operational best practice.
- Participate in a 24x7 on-call rotation to support critical services and ensure platform availability.
- Drive standardisation, automation, and documentation to improve consistency, reduce operational overhead, and support knowledge sharing.
- Contribute across the full lifecycle of platform and service delivery, from design and build through to operation and optimisation.
Essential skills and experience
- 5+ years of experience in DevOps, SRE, platform engineering, or software engineering roles.
- Strong Kubernetes experience at scale, with deep understanding of containers and container orchestration.
- Hands-on experience with infrastructure as code tools such as Terraform, Ansible, or Puppet.
- Strong programming skills in at least one object-oriented language, along with effective scripting and automation capability.
- Strong understanding of security principles and best practices across infrastructure, platforms, and services.
- Significant hands-on experience in at least one major cloud platform, with broad exposure across AWS, GCP, or OCI.
- Strong monitoring, alerting, and observability experience using tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, or similar platforms.
- Solid understanding of networking fundamentals and distributed systems.
- Strong Linux and/or Windows systems administration experience.
- Experience with software delivery automation, CI/CD pipelines, and secure SDLC practices, including exposure to static and dynamic security testing.
- Good understanding of SRE concepts such as SLIs, SLOs, SLAs, toil reduction, availability, and observability.
- Experience managing and scaling Elasticsearch in production is strongly preferred.
Preferred skills
- Kafka
- MySQL and/or PostgreSQL
- Redis
- Networking
As a global leader in PR, marketing and social media management technology and intelligence, Cision helps brands and organizations to identify, connect and engage with customers and stakeholders to drive business results. PR Newswire, a network of over 1.1 billion influencers, in-depth monitoring, analytics and its Brandwatch and Falcon.io social media platforms headline a premier suite of solutions. Cision has offices in 24 countries throughout the Americas, EMEA and APAC. For more information about Cision's award-winning solutions, including its next-gen Cision Communications Cloud®, visit www.cision.com and follow @Cision on Twitter.
Cision is committed to fostering an inclusive environment where all employees can be their authentic selves and perform at their best. We believe diversity, equity, and inclusion is vital to driving our culture, sparking innovation and achieving long-term success. Cision is proud to have joined more than 600 companies in signing the CEO Action for Diversity & Inclusion™ pledge and named a “Top Diversity Employer” for 2021 by DiversityJobs.com.
Cision is proud to be an equal opportunity employer, seeking to create a welcoming and diverse environment. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, veteran status, or other protected statuses.
Cision is committed to the full inclusion of all qualified individuals. In keeping with our commitment, Cision will take the steps to assure that people with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodations. Accordingly, if reasonable accommodation is required to fully participate in the job application or interview process, to perform the essential functions of the position, and/or to receive all other benefits and privileges of employment, please contact [email protected]
Please review our Global Candidate Data Privacy Statement to learn about Cision’s commitment to protecting personal data collected during the hiring process.
Skills Required
- 5+ years in DevOps, SRE, or software engineering roles
- Strong Kubernetes experience
- Hands-on experience with infrastructure as code tools
- Proficiency in at least one object-oriented programming language
- Significant experience in one major cloud platform
- Experience in monitoring and alerting tools
- Strong Linux and/or Windows systems administration experience
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines
- Understanding of SRE concepts
Brandwatch Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Brandwatch and has not been reviewed or approved by Brandwatch.
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Flexible Benefits — Work is remote-optimized with hybrid options, flexible core hours, and a home-office stipend that support varied working styles. Feedback suggests this flexibility is a notable strength relative to other elements of the package.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Unlimited PTO plus additional wellness days and paid holidays/volunteer time provide generous time-away policies. Feedback suggests these policies are attractive on paper, with usage shaped by team norms.
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Wellbeing & Lifestyle Benefits — Medical, dental, vision, FSA, mental-health resources (EAP, Headspace), and learning access/stipends indicate a broad wellbeing offering. Feedback suggests these benefits can help offset cash-pay concerns for some roles.
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The Company
What We Do
Brandwatch is the world’s leading digital consumer intelligence company, allowing users to analyze and utilize conversations from across the web and social media. It is the perfect platform to make sense of your consumers, their needs, wants, and interests. With official access to Twitter, Reddit, and Tumblr's firehose, plus data coming from 100 million other sites, our historical archive includes over a trillion conversations, with 501 million new ones added every day. Our platform then combines queries and AI to help you parse and analyze the data that's useful to you. From there it can be chopped, sliced, and combined to find insights you can put into action.
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