Senior DevOps Engineer — Platform & Cloud Automation Leader

Devopsroles; Needham (MA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Ascensus is seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer to provide technical leadership and architectural direction across DevOps, CI/CD, and cloud-native engineering practices.

You will partner with architects, engineers, security, and operations to design scalable, automated delivery platforms that enable teams to ship software faster and more reliably. This role emphasizes both strategic standards and hands-on problem solving.

Qualifications

• Over 10 years in DevOps, platform engineering or engineering operations.
• Experience designing enterprise-scale DevOps architectures.
• Strong CI/CD, Agile/Scrum, and cloud-native deployments.
• Hands-on Linux and Windows troubleshooting and automation.

Responsibilities

• Provide architectural direction for DevOps, CI/CD, and platform engineering.
• Lead automated CI/CD pipelines and IaC for multi-team delivery.
• Embed security controls into pipelines (DevSecOps) and ensure observability.
• Drive containerization and cloud-native platform adoption (Kubernetes, AWS).
• Mentor engineers, promote automation and high engineering discipline.

Skills

DevOps leadership

CI/CD

Linux & Windows

AWS cloud

Docker & Kubernetes

Infrastructure as Code

Terraform

GitHub Actions

Jenkins

Ansible / Puppet / Chef

Security & DevSecOps

Monitoring & observability

SRE principles

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Terraform

Kubernetes

AWS Console / CLI

GitHub Actions

Jenkins

Job description

Ascensus is seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer to provide technical leadership and architectural direction across DevOps, CI/CD, and cloud-native engineering practices.

You will partner with architects, engineers, security, and operations to design scalable, automated delivery platforms that enable teams to ship software faster and more reliably. This role emphasizes both strategic standards and hands-on problem solving.