Senior DevOps Engineer — Platform Reliability & Security

Pacific Life; Newport Beach (CA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Pacific Life is seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer to join the Illustrations Platform Team at our Newport Beach headquarters. The role combines software engineering, DevOps, platform engineering, security, and operational ownership to support life insurance illustration systems.

You will own CI/CD pipelines, source control governance, and deployment automation, while driving platform reliability, observability, and security across IIS, Windows Server, and Azure environments.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or equivalent experience.
• 5+ years of software engineering experience using C# and the .NET platform.
• 3+ years of hands-on experience administering and supporting Azure DevOps pipelines, releases, repositories, and deployment automation.
• Strong Git experience, including repository administration, branching strategies, pull request workflows, and source-control governance.
• Experience supporting business-critical production applications in DevOps, Platform Engineering, SRE, or Application Support.
• Strong PowerShell scripting and automation experience.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation.
• Working knowledge of IIS, Windows Server, SQL Server, application deployment practices, certificate management.
• Experience with GHAS, SonarQube, JFrog, or similar security and code quality tools.
• Familiarity with Microsoft Azure cloud services and cloud-hosted environments.
• Understanding of networking fundamentals (Load balancing, SSL/TLS, DNS, Authentication/SSO).
• Experience with monitoring, logging, observability, and operational health tooling.
• Strong troubleshooting and root cause analysis skills.
• Excellent communication and collaboration with stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Own and continuously improve Azure DevOps CI/CD pipelines, release orchestration, deployment automation, and build engineering processes for web, desktop apps, APIs, and services.
• Own source control strategy and governance across the Illustrations Platform, including Git administration and branching strategies.
• Coordinate production deployments, including scheduled evening and weekend release windows, and validate post-deployment health.
• Serve as a senior technical responder for production incidents, driving triage, mitigation, RCA, and corrective actions.
• Drive improvements in platform reliability, scalability, resiliency, performance, and recovery capabilities.
• Improve operational observability through monitoring, logging, alerting, dashboards, and diagnostics.
• Maintain and support IIS, Windows Server, application pools, SSL certs, service accounts, scheduled tasks, and supporting services.
• Partner with Infrastructure, Security, Networking, and EA teams on hosting, cloud, networking, identity, and environment changes.
• Own platform security posture with Security: vulnerability remediation, dependency mgmt, GHAS findings, SCA remediation, cert lifecycle, service accounts, SSDLC.
• Build PowerShell and C# automation to reduce manual effort and boost productivity.
• Drive modernization initiatives: source control, deployment automation, IaC, platform engineering best practices.
• Produce technical docs, runbooks, and knowledge-transfer materials for sustainability.
• Write/maintain production .NET apps/services/automation to improve reliability, security, and integration health.
• Participate in production support, including after-hours incidents and occasional weekend deployments.

Skills

C#

.NET

Azure DevOps

Git

PowerShell

CI/CD

IIS

Windows Server

SQL Server

GHAS

SonarQube

JFrog

Azure

Networking

Monitoring

Troubleshooting

Communication

Stakeholder Collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science/Engineering/Information Systems or equivalent

Tools

GitHub Advanced Security (GHAS)

SonarQube

JFrog

Git

Azure DevOps

Job description

Pacific Life is seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer to join the Illustrations Platform Team at our Newport Beach headquarters. The role combines software engineering, DevOps, platform engineering, security, and operational ownership to support life insurance illustration systems.

You will own CI/CD pipelines, source control governance, and deployment automation, while driving platform reliability, observability, and security across IIS, Windows Server, and Azure environments.