Senior Devops Engineer

What You’ll Do

• As a Senior Devops Engineer, you will play a critical role in designing, developing, and scaling Sonatype’s core products. You’ll work across the stack—building powerful backend services, intuitive frontend experiences, and robust cloud-native applications. You'll also provide technical leadership and mentorship, influencing engineering best practices across the team.

Key Responsibilities:

• You are an engineer who has 4+ years of experience running high availability systems and supporting infrastructure in customer-facing production environments.
• You are motivated by the opportunity to define repeatable practices for service delivery- via modular, reusable automation and a developer platform that enables self-service delivery of services. You will also participate in the governance controls that reduce risk and promote standardization across the organization.
• You will be a member of the Sonatype Developer Experience team, which has a wide range of responsibilities to drive service delivery excellence for Sonatype products and services that are customer-facing and customer-adjacent.
• You will refine a set of high level enablement practices - for instance, design review, service launch coordination, production readiness assessment, service level objective definition / review, incident management, and cost awareness- to support delivery teams at various phases of their service lifecycle and maturity.
• You will collaborate closely with Sonatype delivery teams to define product specific metrics and remediations through system analysis, testing, and fault troubleshooting.

What We’re Looking For

• We’re seeking an experienced engineer who thrives in an agile, collaborative environment and enjoys tackling technical challenges.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Proficiency with a high-level programming language (eg: Python, Go),  bash scripting and linux
• Proficiency in modern technical operating practices
• System architecture & design experience
• Continuous integration / continuous delivery (Jenkins, FluxCD and GitHub Actions)
• Infrastructure as Code (Terraform)
• Cloud services (AWS) and Kubernetes
• SRE principles & practices
• Experience with specific AWS offerings, including many of:
• ECS/EKS/ECR
• EC2, S3, RDS, VPCs
• IAM Policy Docs, Policies, Roles, and Instance Profiles
• Cloudwatch Logs
• Docker Containers and orchestration (ECS, EKS)
• Terraform and the use of Terraform modules
• Kubernetes cluster concepts and design
• Experience improving service observability: monitoring agents, metrics, logging and dashboards. Knowledge of OpenTelemetry and Prometheus and observability platforms similar to DataDog, Splunk, Dynatrace or Observe
• Comfortable participating in an on-call rotation with teammates to respond and triage production issue escalations during off-hours