Senior DevOps Engineer

Centric Software, Inc.; Campbell (AK); Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Centric Software, Inc. in Campbell, CA / Remote USA (PST) is seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer to partner with development teams to build, deploy, and operate scalable, secure applications in cloud and on-prem environments.

The role emphasizes hands-on DevOps, automation, production readiness, and adoption of DevOps standards, with experience using AI-assisted tooling to boost scripting, deployment, and troubleshooting.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in DevOps or SRE in large-scale environments.
• Strong Bash and Python scripting and automation skills.
• Strong Docker, Kubernetes, Rancher, and Helm experience.
• Experience with Kubernetes certificate management, TLS, and service mesh technologies.
• Strong CI/CD experience, preferably with Jenkins.
• Strong Terraform and IaC experience.
• Experience with AWS, Azure, and GCP.
• Experience with Kafka/RabbitMQ and SQL/NoSQL databases.
• Experience with Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, New Relic, or similar observability platforms.
• Strong Linux administration and troubleshooting skills.
• Demonstrated experience working directly with development teams to onboard applications and drive adoption of DevOps processes, standards, and production-readiness requirements.
• Experience using AI-assisted development or DevOps tools to improve engineering productivity and automation.
• Strong problem-solving, communication, and cross-functional collaboration skills.

Responsibilities

• Build, optimize, and maintain CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, GitLab, Bitbucket, or similar platforms.
• Partner with development teams to onboard applications and implement consistent DevOps, deployment, security, observability, and operational standards.
• Guide development teams on production readiness, including HA, scaling, monitoring, logging, health checks, security, backup, and supportability.
• Automate infrastructure, application installation, upgrades, backup, and operational procedures using Bash, Python, Terraform, Helm, APIs, and related technologies.
• Manage Kubernetes, Rancher, Docker, and containerized workloads across cloud and on-premises environments.
• Architect and support deployments across AWS, Azure, and GCP.
• Implement monitoring, logging, performance monitoring, and alerting using Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, New Relic, or similar tools.
• Troubleshoot microservices and distributed systems including Kafka, RabbitMQ, PostgreSQL, SQL Server, Oracle, and MongoDB.
• Perform root cause analysis and continuously improve reliability, scalability, security, performance, and deployment processes.
• Leverage AI coding assistants, LLMs, AI agents, and AI-assisted automation to accelerate scripting, infrastructure development, CI/CD, troubleshooting, log analysis, documentation, testing, and repetitive operational tasks.
• Identify opportunities to safely automate DevOps workflows using AI while maintaining appropriate validation and engineering oversight.

Skills

CI/CD automation

SRE practices

Cross-functional collab

Linux administration

Python scripting

Tools

Jenkins

GitLab

Kubernetes

Docker

Terraform

Helm

Prometheus

Grafana

ELK

New Relic

AWS

Azure

GCP

Kafka

RabbitMQ

SQL/NoSQL

Job description

About Centric Software:

Centric Software® is a global leader, providing an innovative and AI-enabled product-concept-to-commercialization platform for retailers, brands and manufacturers of all sizes. We equip retail, fashion, luxury, footwear, outdoor, home and consumer goods brands with pioneering best-of-breed solutionsto plan, design, develop, source, comply, buy, make, price, allocate, sell and replenish products. Our technology powers brands to streamline processes, drive efficiency and operate with confidence in an ever-changing market.

Our story is one of rapid growth, bold ideas and extraordinary opportunities. We’re here to challenge the status quo—and we’re looking for brilliant people who want to do the same. No matter where you are in the world, this is your chance to be part of something exceptional.

Position

Senior DevOps Engineer

Location

Campbell, CA / Remote USA (PST Time Zone)

Position Overview

We are seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer to partner closely with development and engineering teams to build, deploy, and operate scalable, secure, highly available applications across cloud and on-premises environments.

This role requires strong hands-on DevOps experience, a passion for automation, and the ability to actively guide development teams through application onboarding, production readiness, and adoption of DevOps standards and best practices. Candidates should also be comfortable leveraging AI-assisted engineering tools and automation to improve DevOps efficiency, troubleshooting, and delivery velocity.

Responsibilities

• Build, optimize, and maintain CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, GitLab, Bitbucket, or similar platforms.

• Partner with development teams to onboard applications and implement consistent DevOps, deployment, security, observability, and operational standards.

• Guide development teams on production readiness, including HA, scaling, monitoring, logging, health checks, security, backup, and supportability.

• Automate infrastructure, application installation, upgrades, backup, and operational procedures using Bash, Python, Terraform, Helm, APIs, and related technologies.

• Manage Kubernetes, Rancher, Docker, and containerized workloads across cloud and on-premises environments.

• Architect and support deployments across AWS, Azure, and GCP.

• Implement monitoring, logging, performance monitoring, and alerting using Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, New Relic, or similar tools.

• Troubleshoot microservices and distributed systems including Kafka, RabbitMQ, PostgreSQL, SQL Server, Oracle, and MongoDB.

• Perform root cause analysis and continuously improve reliability, scalability, security, performance, and deployment processes.

• Leverage AI coding assistants, LLMs, AI agents, and AI-assisted automation to accelerate scripting, infrastructure development, CI/CD, troubleshooting, log analysis, documentation, testing, and repetitive operational tasks.

• Identify opportunities to safely automate DevOps workflows using AI while maintaining appropriate validation and engineering oversight.

Requirements

• Strong experience supporting 24×7, highly available production environments.

• Strong Bash and Python scripting and automation skills.

• Strong Docker, Kubernetes, Rancher, and Helm experience.

• Experience with Kubernetes certificate management, TLS, and service mesh technologies.

• Strong CI/CD experience, preferably with Jenkins.

• Strong Terraform and Infrastructure as Code experience.

• Experience with AWS, Azure, and GCP.

• Experience with Kafka/RabbitMQ and SQL/NoSQL databases.

• Experience with Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, New Relic, or similar observability platforms.

• Strong Linux administration and troubleshooting skills.

• Demonstrated experience working directly with development teams to onboard applications and drive adoption of DevOps processes, standards, and production-readiness requirements.

• Experience using AI-assisted development or DevOps tools to improve engineering productivity and automation.

• Strong problem-solving, communication, and cross-functional collaboration skills.

Centric Software provides equal employment opportunities to all qualified applicants without regard to race, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, color, age, religion, protected veteran or disability status or genetic information.