Senior DevOps Engineer: Kubernetes Platform Lead

Intuitive Surgical, Inc.; Sunnyvale (CA); On-site; USD 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Intuitive Surgical, Inc. is seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer to design, operate, and improve enterprise DevOps platforms across cloud and on-premises environments.

This role emphasizes platform reliability, automation, IaC, CI/CD enablement, and secure self-service capabilities. You will own critical tooling such as GitLab, Vault, and Terraform Enterprise, while collaborating with cross-functional teams for scalable, secure operations in Sunnyvale, CA.

Qualifications

• 7+ years in DevOps, Platform Engineering, SRE, Cloud Infrastructure, or a related role.
• Strong Kubernetes administration, troubleshooting, and production operations experience.
• Strong AWS infrastructure, networking, security, operations, and automation experience.
• Strong GitLab administration and CI/CD experience, including pipelines, runners, upgrades, and integrations.
• Strong Terraform skills for IaC, module development, standardization, and lifecycle management.
• Hands-on experience managing Terraform Enterprise and HashiCorp Vault.
• Strong Python development for automation, APIs, platform tooling, and operational workflows.
• Solid Linux, containers, networking, monitoring, troubleshooting, and incident management skills.

Responsibilities

• Own and support GitLab, SonarQube, BuildBuddy, HashiCorp Vault, and Terraform Enterprise platforms.
• Design, manage, and troubleshoot Kubernetes platforms and workloads across AWS and on-premises environments.
• Build and maintain scalable CI/CD pipelines, GitLab runners, integrations, and release automation.
• Develop reusable Terraform modules and standardized IaC for AWS, Kubernetes, and platform services.
• Automate operations, integrations, reporting, and self-service workflows using Python.
• Manage Vault secrets, authentication, authorization, PKI, and secure platform integrations.
• Manage Terraform Enterprise workspaces, state, policies, VCS integrations, access, and governance.
• Improve monitoring, reliability, backup, disaster recovery, vulnerability remediation, and incident response.
• Collaborate across engineering, infrastructure, and security teams; mentor engineers and document standards.

Skills

7+ years

Kubernetes

AWS

GitLab

Terraform

Python

Terraform Enterprise

HashiCorp Vault

Linux

CI/CD

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science/Engineering

Master's degree preferred

Tools

Kubernetes

AWS

Terraform

Terraform Enterprise

HashiCorp Vault

GitLab

SonarQube

Allure

BuildBuddy

HashiCorp Vault

GitLab Platform

Job description

Intuitive Surgical, Inc. is seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer to design, operate, and improve enterprise DevOps platforms across cloud and on-premises environments.

This role emphasizes platform reliability, automation, IaC, CI/CD enablement, and secure self-service capabilities. You will own critical tooling such as GitLab, Vault, and Terraform Enterprise, while collaborating with cross-functional teams for scalable, secure operations in Sunnyvale, CA.