Senior DevOps Engineer - CI/CD & Kubernetes Platform
Avaya · Indiana, United States · 4 days ago
Information TechnologyFull-time
Key Responsibilities
- Autonomous Problem Solving: Own and resolve complex technical issues within the CI/CD pipeline and cloud infrastructure without escalating to engineering.
- First-Response Debugging: Lead investigations into failed upgrades and orders, identifying root causes in Jenkins, GitHub, and Terraform configurations.
- Infrastructure Reliability: Maintain and optimize deployment tooling to ensure high availability and seamless release cycles.
- Privileged Troubleshooting: Utilize elevated system access to perform deep-level debugging across Windows and Linux environments as well as CI/CD, version control, and cloud orchestration tools.
- Process Improvement: Identify recurring failure patterns in the new order and release process, document, and suggest permanent fixes to Engineering via JIRA.
Required Skills & Qualifications
- Experience: Approximately 5 years of hands-on experience in DevOps, SRE, or Tooling Engineering.
- Cloud Orchestration: Deep understanding of AKS, Kubernetes and Argo CD.
- Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Advanced proficiency in Terraform.
- CICD & Version Control: Extensive experience with Jenkins pipelines and GitHub.
- OS Agnostic: Strong troubleshooting skills in both Windows and Linux environments via CLI.
Preferred Qualifications
- Security Mindset: Experience managing secrets and sensitive configurations within a high-access environment.
- Scripting Expertise: Proficiency in Python, Bash or similar scripting language to automate "self-healing" scripts for common pipeline failures and enhance/automate common intra-team tasks.
- Certification: CKA (Certified Kubernetes Administrator) or HashiCorp Terraform Associate.
- Monitoring: Familiarity with observability tools (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, or ELK stack) to preemptively identify upgrade bottlenecks.