Senior DevOps Engineer: Automation, Linux & CI/CD

OCLC; Dublin (CA); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health coverage

Retirement plans

Parental leave

Tuition reimbursement

On-site fitness center

Cafeteria subsidies

Wellness events

Job summary

OCLC is seeking a Senior Systems Engineer (DevOps) to support the Wise ILS platform used by public libraries. The role focuses on security, reliability, scalability, and efficiency through automation and monitoring.

You will lead incident resolution, collaborate with development teams on CI/CD, and mentor colleagues while contributing to production reliability in a hybrid work environment.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience.
• 6+ years in DevOps, Systems Engineering, Platform Engineering, or related roles.
• Strong Linux (RHEL) administration and troubleshooting.
• 6+ years of Ansible and automation/IaC experience.
• Proficiency in Bash and Python scripting.
• Experience with SQL/MySQL.
• Monitoring, incident management, and production support expertise.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Design, maintain, and optimize Linux-based infrastructure.
• Automate operational tasks, deployments, and configuration management.
• Improve infrastructure provisioning, patching, upgrades, and platform maintenance processes.
• Implement and enhance monitoring, alerting, and observability solutions.
• Lead incident resolution, root cause analysis, and preventive improvements.
• Support customer environment deployments and platform improvement projects.
• Collaborate with development teams to improve CI/CD and deployment processes.
• Create technical documentation, runbooks, and promote knowledge sharing.
• Provide technical leadership, mentoring, and cross-team coordination.

Skills

Linux administration

Bash scripting

Python scripting

SQL/MySQL

Monitoring & incident management

Team communication

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience

Tools

Ansible

Docker

Kubernetes

Jenkins

Rundeck

Solr

etcd

Job description

OCLC is seeking a Senior Systems Engineer (DevOps) to support the Wise ILS platform used by public libraries. The role focuses on security, reliability, scalability, and efficiency through automation and monitoring.

You will lead incident resolution, collaborate with development teams on CI/CD, and mentor colleagues while contributing to production reliability in a hybrid work environment.