Senior DevOps Engineer

The Senior DevOps Engineer is an expert in the design, automation, security, and reliability of the platforms that deliver TMRS applications. This role owns the CI/CD toolchain, infrastructure as code standards, and cloud operating practices spanning on-premises and multi-cloud environments. This role will work within the IS Department partnering with Software Engineers, Database Administrators, Infrastructure and Network teams, and Information Security.

• Expert understanding of CI/CD engineering; architect, implement, and maintain end-to-end pipelines using GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps.
• Define pipeline templates, environment promotion models, and release controls that scale across development teams.
• Own infrastructure as code implementations and reusable Terraform modules for repeatable provisioning of cloud environments.
• Architect and manage cloud infrastructure across AWS and Azure, including provisioning, auto-scaling, load balancing, network segmentation, and disaster recovery.
• Design and operate deployment strategies including blue/green and canary releases.
• Establish and report software delivery performance measures — deployment frequency, lead time for changes, change failure rate, and failed deployment recovery time — and drive improvement against documented baselines.
• Define SLO, SLI, SLA, error budgets, and operational readiness criteria for application and platform services.
• Design and maintain monitoring, logging, alerting, and observability tooling such as Datadog, Dynatrace, Splunk, Prometheus, Grafana, and native AWS and Azure monitoring.
• Embed security into the delivery lifecycle (DevSecOps), including static and dynamic analysis, software composition analysis, and policy as code.
• Implement and govern identity and access management, secrets management, certificate lifecycle, and encryption across pipelines and environments.
• Partner with Infrastructure, Network, and Database teams on capacity planning, high availability, backup and recovery, and disaster recovery testing.
• Drive cloud cost and capacity optimization using FinOps practices; forecast consumption and report variance.
• Mentor and coach mid-level and junior engineers; establish DevOps practices and drive adoption across teams.
• Work with IS Managers and Business Analysts to estimate and architect solutions.
• Investigate and suggest new technologies and assess their viability and usefulness in current and future projects.
• Document technical procedures, configurations, runbooks, and the architecture of implemented solutions.
• Support security assessments, external audits such as SOC examinations, and requests from Internal Audit; produce control evidence aligned to NIST and state security standards.
• Coordinate backup and recovery strategies, policies, and disaster recovery procedures.
• Contribute new viewpoints and strategies to stimulate growth.
• Ability to use and integrate approved AI solutions
• After hours support as needed, including participation in an on-call rotation
• Other duties as assigned
• Follow all applicable policies and procedures including all security policies.