DevOps 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

At Cision, we believe in empowering every individual to make an impact. Here, your voice is heard, your ideas are valued, and your unique perspective fuels our collective success. As part of our global team, you'll thrive in an environment that champions curiosity, collaboration, and innovation, all while making meaningful contributions to the brands we accelerate.

Join us in shaping the future of communication and building authentic connections that matter. Whether you're solving complex problems or driving bold innovations, your growth is our success, and together, we’ll create the conversations of tomorrow.

Empower your impact at Cision. Be seen, be understood, be you.

We’re looking for an accomplished DevOps Engineer to help shape and evolve our cloud, DevOps, and SRE platforms. In this role, you will design and implement the tools, automation, and infrastructure that support reliable, secure, and scalable service delivery across our environments. You will play a key role in improving platform reliability, operational efficiency, scalability, and consistency, working across teams to deliver resilient and well-governed solutions. Reporting to the Cloud DevOps Manager, you will also mentor other engineers and help drive best practice across cloud infrastructure, automation, CI/CD, and site reliability engineering.

What you’ll do

• 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.

Essential skills and experience

• 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.

Preferred Skills

• Kafka
• MySQL and/or PostgreSQL
• Redis
• Networking

As a global leader in PR, marketing and social media management technology and intelligence, Cision helps brands and organizations to identify, connect and engage with customers and stakeholders to drive business results. PR Newswire, a network of over 1.1 billion influencers, in‑depth monitoring, analytics and its Brandwatch and Falcon.io social media platforms headline a premier suite of solutions. Cision has offices in 24 countries throughout the Americas, EMEA and APAC. For more information about Cision's award‑winning solutions, including its next‑gen Cision Communications Cloud®, visit www.cision.com and follow @Cision on Twitter.

Cision is committed to fostering an inclusive environment where all employees can be their authentic selves and perform at their best. We believe diversity, equity, and inclusion is vital to driving our culture, sparking innovation and achieving long‑term success. Cision is proud to have joined more than 600 companies in signing the CEO Action for Diversity & Inclusion™ pledge and named a “Top Diversity Employer” for 2021 by DiversityJobs.com.

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