Senior DevOps Engineer - Cloud, CI/CD & AI Automation

Clarivate; Alexandria (VA); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Clarivate is seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer to join the PISA DevOps team in Alexandria, VA. You will help scale cloud and containerized services, lead CI/CD pipelines, and promote secure, observable infrastructure across Derwent Patent Search and Derwent Patent Analytics platforms.

You will collaborate with a global team across time zones, owning IaC, deployment automation, and AI workflow integrations. The role requires a US clearance-ready profile and hybrid work from Alexandria with

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree or higher in Computer Science, IT, software engineering, or related field or equivalent relevant experience.
• 5+ years managing systems in a large-scale production environment.
• 5+ years of experience in developing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines with GitHub Actions, Jenkins or equivalent tools.
• 5+ years of experience supporting Cloud Computing based services, preferably AWS.
• 5+ years of experience deploying, managing, and scaling containerized applications using Kubernetes.
• 5+ years of experience in Infrastructure as Code using Terraform.
• 5+ years of software development/scripting experience using Python, Bash or similar.
• 5+ years of experience implementing GitHub Copilot or building AI workflows with LLM APIs.
• US Citizen or Green Card holder with active Public Trust Clearance or ability to obtain one.

Responsibilities

• Product Roadmap – solutioning new deployments and product enhancements while maintaining existing systems for functionality, performance and security.
• Pipeline Engineering – oversee CI/CD tools and infrastructure.
• Developer Support – interact with development teams to gather build requirements and provide status updates.
• Observability & Monitoring – implement logging, metrics and alerting using Datadog, CloudWatch, GitHub metrics.
• Security & Compliance – reduce vulnerabilities and support ISO-27001, SOC2 Type I & II compliance.
• AI Integration – design and optimize AI agent services and workflows with GitHub Copilot.
• Infrastructure as Code – manage Terraform-based provisioning and GitHub source control.
• DevOps Practices – maintain runbooks and cross-team knowledge sharing.

Education

Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or related field

Equivalent relevant experience

Tools

GitHub Actions

Jenkins

AWS

Kubernetes

Terraform

Python

Bash

GitHub Copilot

Job description

Clarivate is seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer to join the PISA DevOps team in Alexandria, VA. You will help scale cloud and containerized services, lead CI/CD pipelines, and promote secure, observable infrastructure across Derwent Patent Search and Derwent Patent Analytics platforms.

You will collaborate with a global team across time zones, owning IaC, deployment automation, and AI workflow integrations. The role requires a US clearance-ready profile and hybrid work from Alexandria with