Senior DevOps Engineer

Location: Irvine, CA (Hybrid work arrangement)

About the Role

The Senior DevOps Engineer is primarily responsible for building, maintaining, and scaling our DevOps infrastructure, ensuring reliability, performance, and security across development pipelines and production environments in AWS Cloud. This role also involves the setup, configuration, and management of JD Edwards EnterpriseOne applications, including CNC activities such as environment installation, upgrading, performance tuning, package builds, security setup, and resolving technological challenges.

Responsibilities

• Set up and administer environments (Dev, QA, UAT, PROD) in AWS using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools like Terraform and Ansible.
• Drive adoption of cloud-native technologies (AWS, Azure) focusing on high availability, scalability, and cost optimization.
• Design, build, and maintain CI/CD pipelines using tools such as Jenkins, GitHub Actions, or ArgoCD.
• Deploy and manage serverless, VM-based, and containerized applications using Docker and Kubernetes (EKS, GKE, AKS).
• Monitor and troubleshoot AWS environments using tools like Prometheus, Grafana, New Relic, Splunk, or ELK Stack.
• Automate security practices using tools such as Snyk, Checkov, Trivy within CI/CD pipelines, and manage application patching and vulnerability remediation.
• Build and manage CI/CD pipelines for SaaS, PaaS, and custom applications across on-prem and cloud platforms (e.g., Salesforce, MuleSoft, Snowflake).
• Collaborate with developers for smooth code integration and deployments, working within Agile/Scrum frameworks using Jira and following ITIL change management processes via ServiceNow.
• Lead and drive DevOps, DataOps, and ML/AI Ops initiatives across the organization, promoting and implementing Agile methodologies throughout the SDLC.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field.
• 8 years of experience with DevOps and Cloud technologies.

Skills

• Strong proficiency with CI/CD tools (e.g., Jenkins, GitHub Actions, ArgoCD).
• Experience with AWS services such as EC2, EKS, S3, IAM, CloudWatch, VPC, Route53, RDS, etc.
• Hands-on experience with Kubernetes in production (preferably EKS) and Docker.
• Experience with scripting and automation using Python, Bash, or PowerShell.
• Familiarity with IaC tools like Terraform, Ansible, or CloudFormation.
• Deep understanding of Git workflows, branching strategies, and GitOps principles.
• Monitoring and logging experience with tools like Splunk, New Relic, Prometheus, Grafana, or ELK.
• Strong focus on security – experience with DevSecOps, vulnerability scanning tools (Snyk, Aqua, Twistlock).

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in managing deployments on ERP platforms (Oracle), Salesforce, UiPath, MuleSoft, Snowflake.

About the Company

Ventura Foods innovates and manufactures food solutions for foodservice and retail businesses. We make exclusive products for the world's most iconic restaurants and retailers, provide ready-to-go product solutions for professional kitchens, and create consumer brands everyone knows and loves.

Benefits

• Medical, Prescription, Dental, & Vision coverage beginning on your 1st day for eligible employees.
• Profit Sharing and 401(k) matching (after eligible criteria is met).
• Paid Vacation, Sick Time, and Holidays.
• Employee Appreciation Events and Employee Assistance Programs.

Pay

Base salary range: $130,874.00 - $171,772.65