Staff DevOps Engineer

Job Description Summary

Leveraging deep expertise in DevOps, CI/CD, cloud infrastructure, automation, release engineering, observability, and platform engineering, you will lead the design and implementation of scalable engineering systems that enable reliable, secure, and predictable software delivery across a diverse product portfolio. You will partner closely with engineering leaders, architects, product teams, cybersecurity teams, and infrastructure organizations to establish common DevOps frameworks, deployment standards, and operational excellence practices.

The ideal candidate possesses strong technical leadership, hands-on implementation experience, and a proven track record of driving large-scale DevOps transformations across complex enterprise software environments.

Job Description

Responsibilities

• Define and own the DevOps vision, strategy, roadmap, and implementation across the Transmission Software portfolio, including both heritage EMS/SCADA products and GridOS-native applications.
• Lead the standardization and modernization of CI/CD platforms, build systems, release pipelines, artifact management, and deployment automation across multiple product lines.
• Drive adoption of DevSecOps practices, integrating security scanning, compliance checks, vulnerability management, and policy enforcement into engineering workflows.
• Establish enterprise-wide standards for source control, branching models, automated testing, release governance, environment management, and deployment processes.
• Partner with engineering teams to enable cloud-native development practices leveraging containers, Kubernetes, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), and platform engineering principles.
• Design and implement scalable automation frameworks that improve developer productivity, reduce manual effort, and accelerate software delivery cycles.
• Lead modernization initiatives to transition legacy build, deployment, and release processes toward highly automated and self-service platforms.
• Partner with product engineering and quality organizations to achieve best-in-class automation coverage, deployment reliability, release quality, and operational readiness.
• Define and track key DevOps metrics, including deployment frequency, lead time, change failure rate, MTTR, pipeline efficiency, and engineering productivity.
• Drive implementation of observability solutions including logging, monitoring, alerting, tracing, and operational dashboards across portfolio products.
• Collaborate with cloud, infrastructure, cybersecurity, and platform teams to ensure highly available, secure, and scalable engineering environments.
• Provide technical leadership through architecture reviews, implementation guidance, mentoring, and coaching of DevOps engineers and development teams.
• Champion Agile, Continuous Integration, Continuous Delivery, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), and Platform Engineering best practices throughout the organization.
• Partner with global engineering teams to improve release predictability, deployment consistency, operational excellence, and customer delivery outcomes.
• Drive portfolio-wide initiatives to reduce technical debt, improve developer experience, and establish a modern software delivery ecosystem.

Desired Characteristics

• Deep expertise in DevOps, CI/CD, Release Engineering, Platform Engineering, and Software Delivery at enterprise scale.
• Proven experience designing and implementing CI/CD platforms using technologies such as Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Azure DevOps, or similar frameworks.
• Strong experience with cloud platforms including Azure, AWS, or GCP, and modern cloud-native architectures.
• Hands-on experience with Kubernetes, Docker, OpenShift, container orchestration, and platform automation.
• Strong knowledge of Infrastructure as Code technologies such as Terraform, Ansible, Helm, CloudFormation, or equivalent.

• Experience building enterprise-scale deployment automation and release management processes supporting multiple global development teams.
• Strong understanding of DevSecOps, application security, compliance automation, vulnerability management, and secure software delivery practices.
• Expertise in observability platforms including Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, Splunk, OpenTelemetry, or similar technologies.
• Experience supporting both legacy enterprise applications and modern microservices-based architectures.
• Strong understanding of software quality engineering, automated testing strategies, test orchestration, and quality gates.
• Knowledge of power systems, transmission operations, EMS, SCADA, GridOS, utility software, or industrial control systems is highly desirable.
• Demonstrated ability to influence engineering organizations, drive transformation initiatives, and build consensus across multiple stakeholders.
• Excellent communication, leadership, stakeholder management, and organizational change management skills.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, Software Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Information Technology, or related STEM discipline.
• 10+ years of experience in Software Engineering, DevOps Engineering, Platform Engineering, Release Engineering, or Cloud Infrastructure.
• Minimum 5+ years of experience leading DevOps transformation initiatives across enterprise software organizations.
• Strong hands-on experience with CI/CD platforms, cloud technologies, automation tooling, infrastructure management, and software delivery systems.

• Demonstrated experience driving organization-wide engineering productivity, automation, and modernization programs.

Technical Skills & Additional Experience

• CI/CD Platforms: GitHub Actions, GitLab CI/CD, Jenkins, Azure DevOps
• Cloud Platforms: Azure, AWS, GCP
• Container Technologies: Kubernetes, Docker, OpenShift
• Infrastructure as Code: Terraform, Helm, Ansible
• Source Control & SCM: GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket
• Observability: Prometheus, Grafana, ELK Stack, Splunk, OpenTelemetry
• Security: DevSecOps, SAST, DAST, SBOM, Container Security
• Release Engineering & Environment Management
• Site Reliability Engineering (SRE)
• Platform Engineering & Internal Developer Platforms
• Automated Testing & Quality Engineering
• Enterprise Software Delivery and Portfolio Governance

Leadership Expectations

• Serve as the technical leader for DevOps strategy and execution across the entire Transmission portfolio.
• Drive alignment between GridOS and heritage product teams to establish common DevOps standards and reusable platforms.
• Lead cross-functional initiatives spanning Engineering, Product Management, Quality Engineering, Cybersecurity, Cloud Infrastructure, and Customer Delivery teams.
• Mentor engineers and technical leads while fostering a culture of automation, quality, reliability, and continuous improvement.
• Define and report portfolio-level engineering health metrics and continuously improve software delivery performance.

Additional Information

Relocation Assistance Provided: Yes