Senior DevOps Engineer: Cloud Automation & Reliability

8x8inc; Cebu City; On-site; PHP 1,200,000 - 2,100,000; Full time

Job summary

8x8 is seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer to own building, deploying, and supporting the Cloud Backend platform. The role balances engineering and operations, requiring independence, leadership, and a focus on availability, performance, and security.

You will drive production readiness from CI/CD to deployment, automate infrastructure, and continuously improve cloud environments with Terraform, Ansible, Jenkins, Git, and Kubernetes. Strong collaboration across dispersed teams is essential.

Qualifications

• Proven experience leveraging AI-enabled tools to enhance efficiency, problem-solving, and collaboration.
• B.S. degree in Computer Science or relevant field experience
• 5+ years of experience with DevOps technologies, cloud-based provisioning, monitoring, and troubleshooting (preferably in AWS and/or Azure).
• Solid experience in AWS VPCs, EC2, S3, Elastic Beanstalk, EKS, K8s, Cloudformation, Lambda and IAM policies mastering in large-scale deployments
• Highly proficient administering a Linux environment, including configuration of networking and security
• Demonstrable expertise around specifying, designing, and implementing system health, performance monitoring tools, and software management tools for 24x7 environments
• Strong debugging and systems analysis skills around identification and rapid issue resolution
• Experience implementing CI/CD strategies
• Container deployments
• Experience using Engineering tools like Jenkins, Git, Argo CD
• Experience with system management automation tools like Chef, Ansible, Terraform
• Scripting skills including bash, python, ruby, etc.
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to work well in a geographically dispersed team

Responsibilities

• Design, develop and deploy infrastructure automation solutions for 8x8 environments
• Automate and optimize cloud infrastructure
• Stay current with the latest trends and best practices in public cloud
• Provide best practices, recommendations, and guidance for Public Cloud usage (e.g. AWS)
• Operational point of contact for development, operations and Quality Engineering
• Work on automation and implemented continuous integration processes with Terraform, Ansible, Jenkins and Git
• Evaluate current development procedures, recommend and implement tools and practices to increase efficiency and repeatability
• Operational review of existing architecture with the goal of automating and improving the existing and future environments
• Work closely with other teams and understand the functionality of applications and assist with various automation and configuration tasks
• Provide support on Incident Response
• Contribute and maintain documentation ensuring knowledge is shared within the team
• Be available for on call when needed to support the infrastructure and our systems.

Skills

AI-enabled tools

Linux administration

CI/CD experience

Scripting (bash, python, ruby)

Communication in dispersed teams

Education

B.S. degree in Computer Science or relevant field experience

Tools

Jenkins

Git

Argo CD

Terraform

Ansible

Chef

Kubernetes

CloudFormation

AWS

EKS

Lambda

Job description

8x8 is seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer to own building, deploying, and supporting the Cloud Backend platform. The role balances engineering and operations, requiring independence, leadership, and a focus on availability, performance, and security.

You will drive production readiness from CI/CD to deployment, automate infrastructure, and continuously improve cloud environments with Terraform, Ansible, Jenkins, Git, and Kubernetes. Strong collaboration across dispersed teams is essential.