DevOps Engineer

Photon; Sunnyvale (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Photon in Sunnyvale, CA is seeking a senior DevOps Engineer to own our infrastructure, CI/CD, and cloud operations. You will build secure, automated, and repeatable platforms that let engineering teams ship quickly and safely.

This role demands hands-on leadership across cloud provisioning (GCP/AWS), Terraform, Jenkins pipelines, and containerization with Docker. You will mentor teammates, improve monitoring and incident response, and push security, reliability, and cost optimization across the

Qualifications

• 10+ years in DevOps, SRE, or infra engineering.
• Hands-on Jenkins pipelines experience.
• Production experience with GCP and/or AWS.
• Docker proficiency and scripting.
• Networking, security, and Linux administration knowledge.

Responsibilities

• Provision and manage cloud infrastructure on GCP and/or AWS.
• Design, maintain, and improve CI/CD pipelines in Jenkins.
• Containerize applications with Docker and support container-based deployment workflows.
• Write automation scripts (Bash, Python, or similar) to reduce manual work.
• Implement monitoring, logging, alerting, and incident response processes.
• Drive cloud security, access control, cost optimization, and reliability improvements.
• Partner with developers and QA to streamline build, test, and release processes; mentor team members.

Skills

DevOps leadership

Mentoring

Security best practices

Tools

Terraform

Jenkins

Docker

Python

Bash

GCP

AWS

Job description

Sunnyvale, CA (Primary Location - Client preferred)

Secondary locations: Dallas, TX / Berkeley Heights, NJ / Chicago, IL / Alpharetta, GA

Role Overview

We are seeking a senior DevOps Engineer to own our infrastructure, CI/CD, and cloud operations. You will build secure, automated, and repeatable platforms that let engineering teams ship quickly and safely.

Key Responsibilities

• Provision and manage cloud infrastructure on GCP and/or AWS using Terraform and
• Design, maintain, and improve CI/CD pipelines in Jenkins.
• Containerize applications with Docker and support container-based deployment workflows.
• Write and maintain automation scripts (Bash, Python, or similar) to reduce manual work.
• Implement monitoring, logging, alerting, and incident response processes.
• Drive cloud security, access control, cost optimization, and reliability improvements.
• Partner with developers and QA to streamline build, test, and release processes; mentor team members.

Required Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in DevOps, SRE, or infrastructure engineering.
• Strong hands-on experience with Jenkins pipelines.
• Production experience with GCP and/or AWS.
• Proficiency with Docker and strong scripting skills.
• Solid understanding of networking, security, and Linux administration.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with Kubernetes and Helm.
• Familiarity with observability tools (for example Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog).
• Experience with GitOps and policy-as-code.