Senior DevOps Leader: CI/CD, Cloud & Kubernetes

Sierra Nevada Corporation; Lone Tree (CO); Hybrid; USD 143,000 - 197,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision plans

401(k) with 150% match up to 6%

Life insurance

3 weeks paid time off

Tuition reimbursement

Job summary

Sierra Nevada Corporation (SNC) is seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer to lead and optimize our CI/CD pipelines and cloud infrastructure. You will drive automation, IaC adoption, and security across development, staging, and production, while mentoring the DevOps team and aligning initiatives with business goals.

You will guide platform reliability, incident response, and governance, and play a key role in advancing GitOps workflows and observability.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, IT, or related field (or equivalent experience).
• 8+ years in DevOps or related roles with cloud and CI/CD ownership.
• Proficiency with Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD, or similar tools.
• Strong hands-on with AWS, Azure, or GCP and Kubernetes.
• Extensive scripting in Python, Bash, or PowerShell.
• In-depth IaC experience with Terraform; Salt/Ansible optional.
• Experience designing GitOps workflows with ArgoCD or Flux.
• Security, compliance, and incident-response focus for production systems.

Responsibilities

• Oversee and optimize CI/CD pipelines and cloud infrastructure.
• Ensure reliability, security, and scalability of systems.
• Lead automation and infrastructure-as-code initiatives.
• Collaborate with executives to align DevOps with business goals.
• Mentor DevOps team and promote best practices.
• Define platform security, incident response, and runbooks.
• Design/operate Kubernetes clusters across environments.
• Drive continuous improvement and industry-standard practices.
• Represent SNC at industry events and forums.

Skills

CI/CD

Cloud platforms

Scripting

Kubernetes

Infrastructure as code

GitOps

Linux admin

Monitoring/observability

Incident response

Security/compliance

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

CloudFormation

ARM Templates

Chef

Puppet

ArgoCD

Flux

AWS CLI/Azure CLI

Kubernetes tooling

Job description

Sierra Nevada Corporation (SNC) is seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer to lead and optimize our CI/CD pipelines and cloud infrastructure. You will drive automation, IaC adoption, and security across development, staging, and production, while mentoring the DevOps team and aligning initiatives with business goals.

You will guide platform reliability, incident response, and governance, and play a key role in advancing GitOps workflows and observability.