Senior DevOps & Platform Engineer — Cloud Automation Leader

Panera LLC; St. Louis (MO); Hybrid; USD 112,000 - 134,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model

Competitive compensation

Job summary

Panera LLC in Saint Louis is seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer to design, implement, and maintain scalable automation, CI/CD pipelines, and cloud infrastructure enabling rapid software delivery. You will mentor engineers and promote DevOps best practices across the org.

The role combines software engineering fundamentals with infrastructure automation, focusing on reliability, platform performance, and developer productivity in a collaborative environment. Hybrid work in St. Louis, MO is offered.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering, Platform Engineering, or a related field.
• Strong understanding of CI/CD principles, automation strategies, and software delivery best practices.
• Hands-on experience with Infrastructure as Code and configuration management tools such as Terraform, Ansible, Chef, or similar technologies.
• Software development experience with the ability to quickly learn and adopt new programming languages and frameworks.
• Experience developing or scripting with one or more of the following: Python, Groovy, Ruby, Java, Node.js.
• Strong experience with Git-based source control platforms, including GitLab and/or GitHub.
• Experience managing artifact repositories such as Artifactory.
• Strong knowledge of Linux/Unix systems and working familiarity with Windows environments.
• Experience with containerization technologies, including Docker and Kubernetes.
• Experience supporting workloads in Google Cloud Platform (GCP), including Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE).
• Experience with virtualization platforms such as VMware vSphere/ESXi.
• Strong analytical, troubleshooting, and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with Development, QA Automation, Release Management, and Infrastructure teams to design and improve software delivery processes and deployment pipelines.
• Develop, maintain, and optimize CI/CD pipelines that enable secure, efficient, and repeatable application and infrastructure deployments.
• Build and support Infrastructure as Code (IaC) solutions to provision and manage cloud and on-premises environments.
• Partner with development teams to implement source control best practices, branching strategies, and DevOps methodologies.
• Drive automation initiatives that improve system reliability, reduce operational overhead, and accelerate time to market.
• Support containerized workloads and orchestration platforms in cloud environments.
• Monitor, troubleshoot, and continuously improve platform performance, availability, and security.
• Mentor engineers and promote DevOps best practices across the organization.

Skills

CI/CD principles

Automation

Git-based workflows

Problem solving

Collaborative skills

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

Chef

Puppet

Docker

Kubernetes

GCP

VMware

Job description

Panera LLC in Saint Louis is seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer to design, implement, and maintain scalable automation, CI/CD pipelines, and cloud infrastructure enabling rapid software delivery. You will mentor engineers and promote DevOps best practices across the org.

The role combines software engineering fundamentals with infrastructure automation, focusing on reliability, platform performance, and developer productivity in a collaborative environment. Hybrid work in St. Louis, MO is offered.