Senior DevOps Engineer: Cloud Platform & Automation Lead

Acuity Brands, Inc.

Atlanta (GA)

On-site

USD 140,000 - 190,000

Full time

14 days+

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Job summary

Acuity Inc. in Atlanta, GA, is seeking an experienced Senior DevOps Engineer to join the Commerce Platform team.

You will design, build, and scale cloud infrastructure and CI/CD pipelines to support our growing e-commerce landscape. You will collaborate across engineering, QA, security, and product teams to enable fast, secure deployments, drive platform maturity, and promote best practices in automation and monitoring.

Qualifications

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field.
5-6+ years of experience in software development, DevOps, Platform Engineering, Site Reliability Engineering, or cloud infrastructure roles.
Proven experience designing, maintaining, and improving CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, Jenkins.

Responsibilities

Design, implement, and maintain scalable cloud infrastructure and CI/CD pipelines that support the development, testing, and deployment of AI driven applications.
Lead the automation of infrastructure provisioning, environment management, configuration, deployment workflows, and operational processes using modern Infrastructure as Code and DevOps tooling.
Partner with engineering, QA, security, architecture, and product teams to ensure software is delivered securely, reliably, and efficiently across the commerce platform.
Promote DevOps, platform engineering, automation, and security best practices across the team, helping to improve consistency, quality, and speed of delivery.
Build and improve CI/CD pipeline standards using tools such as GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, Jenkins, or similar enterprise delivery platforms.
Support containerized and Kubernetes‑based workloads using technologies such as Docker, Kubernetes, Helm, Kustomize and related cloud‑native tooling.
Implement and optimize monitoring, logging, alerting, and observability capabilities using platforms such as Azure Monitor, Application Insights, Grafana, Prometheus, Elasticsearch, or equivalent tools
Identify reliability, performance, scalability, and deployment bottlenecks, and drive continuous improvement across infrastructure, pipelines, and engineering workflows.
Contribute to documentation, runbooks, reusable patterns, and engineering standards that improve team productivity and operational resilience
Mentor engineers and help raise DevOps maturity across Agile, cross‑functional teams through practical guidance, reusable automation, and strong engineering practices.