Senior DevOps Engineer

Clarivate Plc; Alexandria (VA); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Clarivate Plc seeks a Senior DevOps Engineer for the PISA DevOps team in Alexandria, VA. You will guide cloud and DevOps practices, drive CI/CD and IaC, and support a multi-product environment across teams. Strong automation, security focus, and collaboration are essential for success.

You will work with Terraform, Kubernetes, GitHub Actions, and AI-enhanced workflows to deliver scalable, secure infrastructure and services. This role requires US citizenship or GC with clearance eligibility.

Qualifications

• BS/BA or higher in CS/IT or equivalent experience.
• 5+ years managing systems in large-scale production environments.
• 5+ years building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, Jenkins).
• 5+ years supporting Cloud services (prefer AWS).
• 5+ years deploying and scaling containerized apps with Kubernetes.
• 5+ years IaC with Terraform.
• 5+ years software development/scripting in Python/Bash.
• 5+ years GitHub Copilot / AI workflow experience.
• US Citizen or Green Card with Public Trust or ability to obtain one.

Responsibilities

• Define and maintain the product deployment roadmap and security posture.
• Oversee CI/CD pipeline tooling and automation across projects.
• Support software developers with build requirements and status updates.
• Monitor and improve observability using Datadog, CloudWatch, and metrics.
• Drive security/compliance efforts including ISO-27001 and SOC2 alignment.
• Design AI agentive services and workflow automation using Copilot.
• Provide Infrastructure as Code management with Terraform and GitHub source control.
• Maintain thorough DevOps runbooks and cross-team collaboration.

Skills

CI/CD pipelines

GitHub Actions

Jenkins

Cloud computing (AWS)

Kubernetes

Terraform

Python/Bash scripting

AI workflows / GitHub Copilot

DevOps principles & security

Education

Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Terraform

Kubernetes

GitHub Actions

Jenkins

Datadog

Job description

We are looking for a Senior DevOps Engineer to join our PISA DevOps team in Alexandria, VA. This is an amazing opportunity to work on several growing products in the Clarivate Intellectual Property Group. We would love to speak with you if you have experience in providing technical guidance by promoting excellence for Cloud and DevOps practices!

About You – Requirements For Experience, Education, Skills, And Accomplishments

• Bachelor’s Degree or higher in Computer Science, IT, software engineering, or a related field or equivalent relevant experience.
• At least 5+ years managing systems in a large-scale production environment.
• At least 5+ years of experience in developing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines, utilizing GitHub Actions, Jenkins or equivalent tools.
• At least 5+ years of experience supporting Cloud Computing based services, preferably AWS.
• At least 5 years of experience in deploying, managing, and scaling containerized applications using Kubernetes or similar tool.
• At least 5 years of experience in managing and provisioning Infrastructure as Code using Terraform.
• At least 5 years of relevant professional software development/scripting experience using Python, Bash or similar language.
• At least 5 years of proven experience implementing GitHub Copilot or building workflows with AI agents, LLM API’s.
• Must be a US Citizen or Green Card holder with an active Public Trust Clearance or the ability to obtain one.

It would be great if you also had . .

• Proven experience with AWS services (EC2, EKS, ECS, EMR, EBS, RDS, CloudFront, etc.) OR with other similar cloud platform services.
• AWS Cloud Certification and/or Kubernetes Certification, AWS DevOps Engineer Professional, GitHub Actions Certification.
• Experience with Datadog or similar monitoring observability tool.
• Ability to support database servers like MongoDB, PostgreSQL, MySQL.
• Cloud Security experience to include vulnerability detection and remediation, access hardening, and automated security scanning and dependency management in GitHub workflows.
• Software Engineering experience in a higher-level language such as Java or C++.
• Ability to create project plans, budgets, presentations, and documentation involving different products and teams.

What will you be doing in this role?

• Product Roadmap - Solutioning new deployments and product enhancements while maintaining existing systems to include functionality, performance and security.
• Pipeline Engineering - Orchestrating and overseeing the implementation and maintenance of tools and infrastructure critical to the CI/CD pipeline.
• Developer Support - Interact with the software development organization, gathering build requirements, providing status updates, and delivering DevOps assigned tasks.
• Observability & Monitoring - Monitor/measure the efficacy of the automation infrastructure and implement logging, metrics and alerting systems using tools like Datadog, AWS CloudWatch, GitHub metrics, etc.
• Security & Compliance – Reduce security vulnerabilities across assigned systems and support required compliance certifications, ISO-27001, SOC2 Type I & II.
• AI Integration – Design, implement and optimize AI agentic services, leverage GitHub Copilot and pursue workflow automation enhancements.
• Infrastructure as Code – Manage and provision services using Terraform and support the creation and maintenance of source control systems using GitHub.
• DevOps Practices - Maintain consistent documentation, runbooks for all assigned tasks and ensure seamless cross-team knowledge sharing.

Product you will be developing and supporting

Derwent Patent Search and Derwent Patent Analytics are powerful tools designed to streamline the patent research process. By leveraging advanced search capabilities and comprehensive analytics, DPS and DPA enables intellectual property professionals to efficiently uncover critical patent information, monitor industry trends, and make informed decisions. These innovative platforms support the entire lifecycle of patent management, from initial search to strategic analysis, ensuring users stay ahead in the competitive landscape of intellectual property.

About The Team

This is a great opportunity to become part of the wider PISA DevOps team with engineers worldwide, US, EU, Australia and India. You'll have the chance to work on impactful global initiatives and different projects, contributing to a team that values collaboration and innovation. We value deep technical expertise, strong ownership, and thoughtful collaboration across time zones and cultures.

Hours of Work

• This is a permanent full-time position, with core engagement hours within US EST time zone.
• This is a hybrid position, you will be expected to work from our Alexandria, VA office 2 days every week and must live within a reasonable commutable distance to the office. We can also consider our Philadelphia, PA office

At Clarivate, we are committed to providing equal employment opportunities for all qualified persons with respect to hiring, compensation, promotion, training, and other terms, conditions, and privileges of employment. We comply with applicable laws and regulations governing non-discrimination in all locations.