Senior Devops Engineer

Mainz Brady Group; Portland (OR); On-site; USD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Mainz Brady Group seeks a Senior DevOps Engineer to design, build, and maintain scalable cloud infrastructure and delivery processes. This hands-on role focuses on GCP, Kubernetes, Terraform, CI/CD, automation, and infrastructure reliability.

You will mentor engineers, partner across Development, QA and SRE teams, and drive improvements in performance, security, and cost efficiency in a fast-moving environment.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of DevOps or related infrastructure engineering experience.
• Strong hands-on expertise with Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
• Expert-level experience with Terraform.
• Strong Docker and Kubernetes experience, including cluster management, networking, storage, and security.
• Experience with CI/CD platforms (Jenkins, CircleCI, GitLab CI/CD).
• Configuration management experience with Ansible, Chef, or Puppet.
• Strong scripting/programming skills with Python and/or Bash.
• Experience with Prometheus, Grafana, ELK Stack, or similar observability tools.
• Strong understanding of cloud networking, security, IAM, and secrets management.
• Excellent troubleshooting, communication, and collaboration skills.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and optimize complex CI/CD pipelines for reliable deployments.
• Manage and optimize cloud infrastructure within Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
• Build and maintain Infrastructure as Code using Terraform and Ansible.
• Deploy and manage containerized environments using Docker and Kubernetes.
• Automate repetitive infrastructure and operational processes using Python, Bash, or similar scripting languages.
• Implement monitoring, logging, observability, and alerting across distributed systems.
• Troubleshoot production and infrastructure issues and participate in incident response and root cause analysis.
• Improve cloud security, networking, access controls, secrets management, and infrastructure compliance.
• Partner with Development, QA, and SRE teams while mentoring engineers on DevOps best practices.
• Identify opportunities to improve infrastructure performance, reliability, scalability, and cloud costs.

Skills

GCP

Terraform

Docker

Kubernetes

CI/CD pipelines

Python

Bash

cloud security / IAM

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field

Tools

Jenkins

CircleCI

GitLab CI/CD

Terraform

Job description

We’re looking for an experienced Senior DevOps Engineer to design, build, and maintain scalable cloud infrastructure and delivery processes. This is a hands-on role focused on GCP, Kubernetes, Terraform, CI/CD, automation, and infrastructure reliability.

The ideal candidate is self-driven, comfortable working in a fast-paced environment, and able to mentor engineers while partnering across Development, QA, and SRE teams.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Design, build, and optimize complex CI/CD pipelines for reliable and efficient software deployments.
• Manage and optimize cloud infrastructure within Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
• Build and maintain Infrastructure as Code using Terraform and Ansible.
• Deploy and manage containerized environments using Docker and Kubernetes.
• Automate repetitive infrastructure and operational processes using Python, Bash, or similar scripting languages.
• Implement monitoring, logging, observability, and alerting across distributed systems.
• Troubleshoot complex production and infrastructure issues and participate in incident response and root cause analysis.
• Improve cloud security, networking, access controls, secrets management, and infrastructure compliance.
• Partner with Development, QA, and SRE teams while mentoring engineers on DevOps best practices.
• Identify opportunities to improve infrastructure performance, reliability, scalability, and cloud costs.

What We’re Looking For

• 5+ years of DevOps or related infrastructure engineering experience.
• Strong hands-on expertise with Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
• Expert-level experience with Terraform.
• Strong Docker and Kubernetes experience, including cluster management, networking, storage, and security.
• Experience with Jenkins, CircleCI, GitLab CI/CD, or similar CI/CD platforms.
• Configuration management experience with Ansible, Chef, or Puppet.
• Strong scripting/programming skills with Python and/or Bash.
• Experience with Prometheus, Grafana, ELK Stack, or similar observability tools.
• Strong understanding of cloud networking, security, IAM, and secrets management.
• Excellent troubleshooting, communication, and collaboration skills.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.

Nice to Have

• Temporal.io
• GitOps and Argo CD
• Helm, Istio, Tekton, or Knative
• OpenTelemetry, Jaeger, or Zipkin
• Serverless technologies
• Cybersecurity tools and cloud/DevOps certifications