Senior DevOps Engineer: AI-Driven Cloud & CI/CD

Clarivate; Philadelphia (Philadelphia County); Hybrid; USD 130,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model

Professional development opportunities

Job summary

Clarivate is seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer to join the PISA DevOps team in Alexandria, VA, with hybrid work arrangements and a US-based office footprint. The role emphasizes cloud-native design, CI/CD optimization, and AI-enabled automation across a global engineering organization.

You will drive deployment orchestration, observability, and security/compliance initiatives while partnering with product teams to deliver scalable infrastructure for Derwent Patent Search and Derwent Patent

Qualifications

• 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 have a US Citizen or Green Card holder with an active Public Trust Clearance or the ability to obtain one.

Responsibilities

• 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.

Skills

CI/CD pipelines

GitHub Actions

Jenkins

AWS

Kubernetes

Python

Bash

AI workflows

Security & Compliance

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science / IT / Software Engineering or related field

Tools

Terraform

Datadog

GitHub

Job description

Clarivate is seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer to join the PISA DevOps team in Alexandria, VA, with hybrid work arrangements and a US-based office footprint. The role emphasizes cloud-native design, CI/CD optimization, and AI-enabled automation across a global engineering organization.

You will drive deployment orchestration, observability, and security/compliance initiatives while partnering with product teams to deliver scalable infrastructure for Derwent Patent Search and Derwent Patent