Senior DevOps Engineer - AI-Driven Automation & Cloud

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

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.