Senior DevOps Engineer, Cloud & Platform

Pittsburgh Robotics Network; Pittsburgh (Allegheny County); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401k Matching

Tuition Reimbursement

Flexible Time Off

Hybrid Work Model

Employee Assistance Program

Job summary

Smith+Nephew is seeking a Staff DevOps Engineer to own the cloud and platform ecosystems powering our software teams. Hybrid in Pittsburgh, PA, you will lead CI/CD modernization, drive architecture decisions, and mentor engineers to deliver safer, higher quality software at scale.

You will collaborate with cross-functional partners to ensure security, reliability, and compliance while modernizing legacy systems and enabling faster delivery across the software lifecycle.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of professional DevOps/CI-CD or platform engineering experience.
• Proven design and operation of CI/CD pipelines for complex multi-component systems.
• Hands-on experience with AWS/Azure/GCP and cloud services (IAM, networking, compute, storage).
• Experience with containers and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes).
• Strong scripting (Python, Bash) and Linux troubleshooting in cloud environments.
• Ability to influence, mentor, and collaborate across teams; regulated environments a plus.

Responsibilities

• Own and evolve cloud-native CI/CD platforms across dev/test/prod.
• Serve as technical authority for DevOps, CI/CD, and cloud architecture decisions.
• Build and maintain automated build/deploy pipelines across environments.
• Implement infrastructure as code to provision cloud and CI/CD infra.
• Collaborate with engineers, IT, security to ensure reliability, security, and compliance.
• Improve observability with monitoring, logging, and resilience planning.
• Mentor engineers and raise DevOps bar across teams.
• Modernize legacy build systems and drive continuous improvement.

Skills

CI/CD

Cloud platforms (AWS/Azure/GCP)

Docker

Kubernetes

Python

Linux

Mentoring/leadership

Tools

CI/CD tools (e.g., Jenkins, GitLab)

Job description

Smith+Nephew is seeking a Staff DevOps Engineer to own the cloud and platform ecosystems powering our software teams. Hybrid in Pittsburgh, PA, you will lead CI/CD modernization, drive architecture decisions, and mentor engineers to deliver safer, higher quality software at scale.

You will collaborate with cross-functional partners to ensure security, reliability, and compliance while modernizing legacy systems and enabling faster delivery across the software lifecycle.