Cloud Platform Engineer (DevOps)

Virginia AG; Mechanicsville, Northern (VA, KY); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Paid Time Off and holidays

Affordable healthcare

Virginia Retirement System benefits

Tuition Reimbursement

Job summary

Virginia ABC is seeking a Cloud Platform Engineer to automate and operate the infrastructure behind its retail, e‑commerce, and supply chain. You will shape how development teams build and ship software with self-service automation and robust CI/CD.

The role is based in Mechanicsville, VA with a hybrid schedule (3 days in office, 2 days remote). You will work across cloud, container, and observability domains to deliver reliable platforms.

Qualifications

• Four years of DevOps/platform engineering or similar experience.
• Experience building and running containerized apps with CI/CD pipelines.
• Automating infrastructure with IaC and config management.
• Maintaining production Linux and Windows systems and root-cause analysis.

Responsibilities

• Identifies and automates repetitive manual work to reduce toil.
• Builds and optimizes CI/CD pipelines for rapid deployment.
• Develops self-service tools and workflows for developers.
• Monitors applications and infrastructure in real time.
• Manages containerization platforms and release processes.

Skills

DevOps

Containers

CI/CD

IaC

Linux/Windows

Python

Education

Information systems degree or equivalent

Tools

Kubernetes

Azure

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure

Ansible

Helm

Prometheus

Grafana

Nginx / HAProxy

Job description

Job Summary

As a Cloud Platform Engineer, you'll automate, build, and operate the infrastructure behind Virginia ABC's retail stores, e-commerce, and supply chain, including cloud and server platforms, CI/CD pipelines, container platforms, and observability. You'll help shape how our development teams build and deliver software, replacing manual processes with automation and self-service tools that help them ship quickly and reliably.

This position is based at Virginia ABC's Central Office in Mechanicsville, Virginia, and currently follows a hybrid schedule (three days in office, two days remote). Work arrangements are subject to change based on business needs.

Areas of Responsibility

DevOps Engineering and Automation

• Identifies and automates repetitive manual work to reduce toil.
• Analyzes existing software development processes and creates optimized continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipelines to build and deliver software.
• Builds self-service tools and workflows that enable development teams to deploy and manage applications.
• Develops real-time monitoring for applications and infrastructure across the entire application stack.
• Implements and manages containerization platforms.

Enterprise Systems and Project Support

• Builds and maintains cloud infrastructure and platforms.
• Builds and administers Linux and Windows servers.
• Administers and troubleshoots application and web servers.
• Implements and administers load balancing and proxying platforms.
• Troubleshoots production issues and performs root cause analysis.
• Applies patches and remediates vulnerabilities identified through security reviews.
• Customizes the technology stack to support project requirements.
• Documents system inventory, configurations, designs, and operational procedures.
• Manages the implementation and maintenance of release processes, procedures, and schedules.
• Provides on-call support as needed.

Communication and Collaboration

• Collaborates with development, network, data, and operations teams.
• Communicates technical concepts clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences.

Minimum Qualifications

• Four years of experience in DevOps, platform engineering, or systems engineering
• Experience building, deploying, and running containerized applications, with a solid understanding of container concepts such as images, registries, networking, and orchestration
• Experience automating infrastructure provisioning and configuration using infrastructure-as-code and configuration management practices
• Experience operating and maintaining CI/CD pipelines
• Experience administering and troubleshooting production Linux and Windows systems, including root cause analysis

Preferred Qualifications

• Degree in information systems or related discipline, or equivalent work experience
• Experience deploying and operating containerized workloads on Kubernetes (AKS or similar); Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) is a plus
• Experience deploying and administering cloud infrastructure, including servers and storage, particularly in Microsoft Azure and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
• Experience with Ansible (including Ansible Automation Platform/Tower or AWX), Helm, and Python
• Experience with monitoring and observability tools (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, Zabbix, Splunk, or similar)
• Experience deploying and administering web application servers, load balancing, and related middleware such as HAProxy, NGINX, WebLogic, Tomcat, and IIS
• Experience building self-service tooling or workflows for development teams
• Experience with NIST (or similar) standards and determining security scan report impacts on infrastructure and business operations

We Offer

• Excellent work/life balance
• Paid Time Off (PTO) earned every two weeks worked and 14 paid holidays
• Affordable healthcare with employer contributions
• Virginia Retirement System (VRS) benefits
• College Tuition Reimbursement program