Senior CI/CD Platform Engineer - Scale & Automation

NetApp, Inc.; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 170,000 - 253,000; Full time

Job summary

NetApp, Inc. is seeking a Software Engineer 4 for the Platform Engineering team focusing on CI/CD and developer productivity. You will design, build, and operate scalable CI/CD platforms to help engineering teams release software reliably.

You will collaborate with software, QA, SRE, security, and platform teams to improve release velocity, automation, and quality, while mentoring engineers and shaping our delivery ecosystem.

Qualifications

• 8-12 years of experience in Software Engineering, DevOps, Platform Engineering, CI/CD Engineering, or related roles.
• Proven experience designing, building and operating enterprise-scale CI/CD platforms.
• Experience leading cross-functional technical initiatives and driving engineering best practices.
• Strong software development background in cloud-native and distributed systems environments.
• Ability to mentor engineers and influence technical direction across multiple teams.
• Design, implement, and maintain scalable CI/CD platforms supporting multiple teams and products.
• Develop reusable pipeline templates, shared libraries, and automation frameworks to standardize delivery practices.
• Automate build, test, deployment, release, and infrastructure provisioning workflows.
• Improve developer productivity by reducing manual processes and enabling self-service automation.
• Integrate security, compliance, and governance controls into CI/CD workflows and deployment pipelines.
• Collaborate with engineering, QA, SRE, platform, and security teams to improve software quality and velocity.
• Experience with source control and development workflows, including Git, branching strategies, merge strategies, PR workflows, repository governance, and code review best practices.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and operate scalable CI/CD platforms that enable engineering teams to build, test, secure, and deploy software efficiently.
• Drive platform improvements and establish engineering standards across teams.
• Mentor team members and influence the evolution of our software delivery ecosystem.
• Develop and maintain automation frameworks and templates to standardize delivery practices.
• Collaborate with multiple teams to improve release velocity and software quality.

Skills

CI/CD

Cloud-native

Automation

Security integration

Mentoring

Git workflows

Distributed systems

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Jenkins

GitHub

Azure DevOps

CI/CD pipeline design & implementation

Python

Golang

Bash

Groovy

PowerShell

Kubernetes

Helm

Docker

Job description

NetApp, Inc. is seeking a Software Engineer 4 for the Platform Engineering team focusing on CI/CD and developer productivity. You will design, build, and operate scalable CI/CD platforms to help engineering teams release software reliably.

You will collaborate with software, QA, SRE, security, and platform teams to improve release velocity, automation, and quality, while mentoring engineers and shaping our delivery ecosystem.