Senior Automation Architect - Kubernetes & DevOps

StepStone Group; San Diego (CA); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 195,000; Full time

Job summary

StepStone Group is seeking a Senior Associate for Business Automation Solutions within the Data & Technology Solutions group. You will architect and productionize AI-assisted solutions, guide deployment on Kubernetes, and collaborate across teams to raise engineering quality.

The role requires 6+ years of software engineering, strong Kubernetes/DevOps, and the ability to lead cross-functional efforts with a focus on scalable, secure architectures.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 6+ years of software engineering experience, including production ownership and demonstrable technical leadership or cross-team enablement.
• Strong Kubernetes and DevOps capability: Helm charts, intracluster networking and service configuration, GitHub Actions (or comparable CI/CD), and containerized deployments.
• Demonstrated ability to review others’ work and enforce architecture and code-quality standards.
• Strong communication and consulting skills; comfortable guiding teams that are not primarily engineers and owning JIRA coordination.

Responsibilities

• Partner with teams across the firm to bring their solutions into a strong, maintainable framework and productionize them to the team’s standards.
• Own deployment and intracluster networking: package and ship solutions via Helm charts on Kubernetes and ensure correct data access within the cluster.
• Lead Kubernetes/DevOps practices for partner-team deployments: Helm, GitHub Actions CI/CD, containerization, observability, and release safety.
• Engineer on partner teams’ behalf when they lack resources, delivering production-quality code across PHP, React, and Python.
• Review partner-team work and enforce standards before production.
• Advise teams on end-to-end problem solving to drive shared frameworks.
• Coordinate cross-team delivery in JIRA; partner with QA to meet testing and acceptance goals.
• Mentor analysts and associates and raise the engineering bar.

Skills

Kubernetes

DevOps

CI/CD

PHP

React

Python

Architecture

Leadership

JIRA coordination

Code review

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Helm

GitHub Actions

Kubernetes

Job description

StepStone Group is seeking a Senior Associate for Business Automation Solutions within the Data & Technology Solutions group. You will architect and productionize AI-assisted solutions, guide deployment on Kubernetes, and collaborate across teams to raise engineering quality.

The role requires 6+ years of software engineering, strong Kubernetes/DevOps, and the ability to lead cross-functional efforts with a focus on scalable, secure architectures.