Cloud DevOps & SRE Engineer

Brandwatch; United States; On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Cision is seeking an experienced DevOps Engineer to design, implement, and evolve cloud, DevOps, and SRE platforms. You will shape reliable, secure, scalable production services, collaborating with cross‑functional teams and mentoring engineers to uphold best practices.

You’ll contribute across the full lifecycle, participate in on‑call rotations, and drive automation, standardisation, and documentation to reduce toil and improve availability across environments.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience in DevOps, SRE, platform engineering, or software engineering roles.
• Strong Kubernetes experience, with a solid understanding of containers and container orchestration.
• Hands‑on experience with infrastructure as code tools such as Terraform, Ansible, or Puppet.
• Programming skills in at least one object‑oriented language, along with scripting and automation capability.
• Good understanding of security principles and best practices across infrastructure, platforms, and services.
• Hands‑on experience in one or more major cloud platforms, with exposure to AWS, GCP, or OCI.
• Monitoring, alerting, and observability experience using tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, or similar platforms.
• Solid understanding of networking fundamentals and distributed systems.
• Strong Linux and/or Windows systems administration experience.
• Experience with software delivery automation, CI/CD pipelines, and secure SDLC practices, including exposure to static and dynamic security testing.
• Good understanding of SRE concepts such as SLIs, SLOs, SLAs, toil reduction, availability, and observability.
• Experience managing and supporting Elasticsearch in production is beneficial.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and improve reliable, scalable, performant, and secure production platforms and services.
• Work closely with cross-functional teams to build and maintain resilient infrastructure and deployment patterns.
• Support and guide engineers across the organisation, promoting strong engineering standards and operational best practice.
• Participate in a 24x7 on‑call rotation to support critical services and ensure platform availability.
• Drive standardisation, automation, and documentation to improve consistency, reduce operational overhead, and support knowledge sharing.
• Contribute across the full lifecycle of platform and service delivery, from design and build through to operation and optimisation.

Skills

Kubernetes

Terraform

Ansible

Puppet

OOP language

Scripting

Security principles

Public cloud (AWS/GCP/OCI)

Monitoring/Observability

Networking fundamentals

Linux/Windows admin

CI/CD pipelines

Secure SDLC / security testing

SLIs/SLOs/SLAs

Elasticsearch in production

Tools

Prometheus

Grafana

Job description

Cision is seeking an experienced DevOps Engineer to design, implement, and evolve cloud, DevOps, and SRE platforms. You will shape reliable, secure, scalable production services, collaborating with cross‑functional teams and mentoring engineers to uphold best practices.

You’ll contribute across the full lifecycle, participate in on‑call rotations, and drive automation, standardisation, and documentation to reduce toil and improve availability across environments.