Senior DevOps Engineer — Kubernetes, Automation & Scale

Scalence; Morristown (NJ); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Scalence is seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer to join our Infrastructure team, focusing on Kubernetes operations and automation at scale. You will own the health, scalability, and reliability of our clusters and mentor junior engineers while driving the development of tooling used by platform teams.

You will lead cluster upgrades, implement automation, and partner with service owners and leadership to improve observability and incident response across environments.

Qualifications

• 7-9 years in DevOps, SRE, or Infra Eng.
• Deep Kubernetes ops expertise across large multi-cluster environments.
• Strong programming/scripting in Python, Go, Bash.
• Advanced skills reading logs, metrics, and system state for diagnosis.
• Extensive experience with cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, Azure).
• Expert debugging skills across distributed systems.
• Excellent written and verbal communication and ability to document and influence.
• Mentoring engineers and leading technical initiatives.

Responsibilities

• Own and drive the roadmap for Kubernetes cluster operations — lead upgrades, manage node groups, and maintain cluster health across environments at scale.
• Lead troubleshooting of production and non-production issues across multiple interdependent systems.
• Architect and lead development of internal tooling — automation (scripts, CLIs, controllers, operators).
• Drive automation strategy for operational workflows — replace manual runbooks with scripts and tools.
• Diagnose and resolve complex infrastructure blockers across clusters.
• Define and improve observability strategy with logging, metrics, and alerting.
• Set standards for issue tracking and triage; drive resolution and reporting practices.
• Partner cross-functionally with service owners, platform teams, and leadership.
• Lead on-call rotations and incident response; drive post-incident reviews and improvements.
• Mentor and upskill junior and mid-level engineers.

Skills

Kubernetes operations

Automation scripting

Cloud architecture

Mentoring

Cross-team collaboration

Communication

Tools

Terraform

Helm

Ansible

Jenkins

GitHub Actions

Spinnaker

ArgoCD

Flux

Prometheus

Grafana

Datadog

Job description

Scalence is seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer to join our Infrastructure team, focusing on Kubernetes operations and automation at scale. You will own the health, scalability, and reliability of our clusters and mentor junior engineers while driving the development of tooling used by platform teams.

You will lead cluster upgrades, implement automation, and partner with service owners and leadership to improve observability and incident response across environments.