DevOps Engineer, Senior

Role Summary SolarWinds IT Operations is evolving from “ticket takers” to a modern Platform & Operations Engineering organization. Our mission is to give engineers secure and reliable platforms so they can focus on building and shipping products. We are looking for a Senior DevOps Engineer to strengthen our IT DevOps team. In this role, you will own and evolve the internal platforms that power engineering: CI/CD, GitHub, AWS/Azure/GCP environments, and the next generation of developer workstations using Azure DevBox. This is a senior individual contributor role with broad scope across tools, infrastructure, and process. What You’ll Do Platform Engineering & Automation • Work closely with engineering teams to understand their workflows and pain points, and turn them into platform features instead of one off fixes. • Provide guidance and patterns for teams using CI/CD, infrastructure, and cloud resources, balancing freedom with sensible defaults and controls. • Design, implement, and operate self hosted build platforms (TeamCity, GitHub Actions runners, EKS backed workloads) in AWS and Kubernetes. • Own and improve our artifact and package management stack (JFrog Artifactory, Xray) including lifecycle, retention, and performance. • Treat our internal infrastructure as products: define golden paths for repositories, CI/CD, and dev/test environments and make them easy to adopt. • Build and maintain Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CloudFormation, etc.) for AWS, Azure, and VMware/private cloud resources. • Automate repetitive operations and standard requests (environment provisioning, access, account setup) instead of scaling by tickets. • Integrate and operationalize security tools (GitHub Advanced Security, Xray, SignPath, Azure Artifact Signing, etc.) as part of paved road workflows. How We Operate • Lead by example on planning, documentation, and change management: every significant change has a clear plan, ticket, and runbook or documentation update. • Break down and deliver complex work incrementally; communicate progress and risks clearly to peers and leadership. • Mentor other engineers in automation, reliability practices, and platform thinking; help raise the bar for the whole team. What You’ll Bring Required • Strong experience as a Senior DevOps / Platform / SRE engineer supporting development teams in a cloud centric environment. • Deep hands on knowledge of AWS (IAM, VPC, EC2/EKS, networking basics) and solid experience with Kubernetes in production. • Proficiency with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform strongly preferred) and configuration management. • Familiarity with GitHub administration at organization/enterprise level (policies, protections, runners, security features). • Demonstrated track record of owning services end to end: design, implementation, documentation, and steady state operations. • Excellent communication skills; able to translate between engineering needs and IT/operations constraints.