Senior DevSecOps Engineer

Performance Contracting Group; Lackmans (KS); On-site; USD 102,000 - 137,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

ESOP (Employee Stock Ownership Plan)

401(k) with match

Medical, dental, and vision insurance

Flexible paid time off

Job summary

Performance Contracting Group is seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer in the Kansas City metro area to advance cloud and platform engineering, drive reliable automation, and improve delivery speed across production and non-production environments.

This role mentors engineers, designs scalable infrastructure, and partners with security, development, and operations teams to elevate our DevOps maturity. Local candidates preferred for on-site collaboration.

Qualifications

• 5-7 years of progressive experience in DevOps, systems engineering, cloud engineering, platform engineering, infrastructure automation, software delivery, or related IT roles.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or related field, or equivalent experience.
• Demonstrated experience designing, supporting, and improving CI/CD pipelines, automation frameworks, cloud/hybrid infrastructure, and tooling.

Responsibilities

• Serve as senior technical escalation point for DevOps Engineers and project teams.
• Lead root cause analysis for complex issues affecting environments, deployments, performance, and reliability.
• Design, implement, and maintain modern CI/CD pipelines for secure, repeatable delivery across apps and infra.
• Develop Infrastructure as Code and automation using Terraform, Bicep, PowerShell, Python, Azure DevOps, and GitHub Actions.
• Contribute to cloud initiatives by designing scalable, secure, cost-aware solutions across compute, storage, networking, and monitoring.
• Advance platform engineering with reusable templates, self-service workflows, and standardized delivery across teams.
• Apply Site Reliability Engineering practices including SLOs/SLIs, incident response, capacity planning, and toil reduction.
• Improve observability—logging, metrics, tracing, dashboards, alerting, telemetry for faster fault detection and recovery.
• Collaborate with development, security, and operations to design resilient deployments for cloud, on-prem, and hybrid environments.
• Develop automation for provisioning, patching, release readiness, and test data management.
• Integrate security/compliance controls into pipelines and auto
• Use AI-assisted tools to accelerate troubleshooting and reduce manual toil.

Skills

DevOps practices

Agile delivery

Observability

Automation

Root cause analysis

Site Reliability Engineering

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science / IT / Engineering

Tools

Azure DevOps

GitHub Actions

Terraform

Bicep

PowerShell

Python

Jenkins

Job description

Company Overview

Performance Contracting Group is a national employee-owned specialty contractor that offers quality services and products to the commercial, industrial, and non-residential construction markets. We are committed to recruiting, developing, and advancing employees from a diversity of backgrounds and experiences, as well as supporting a culture of safety and inclusiveness that allows you to contribute to your fullest potential. We place high value on training and professional development, encouraging you to broaden and strengthen your unique skill sets so you can fully realize your potential.

The Senior DevOps Engineer is an experienced individual contributor who advances the organization's DevOps capabilities beyond build and release automation into modern cloud engineering, platform engineering, reliability engineering, and AI-enabled operations. This role serves as a technical escalation point for DevOps Engineers, designs repeatable and secure automation patterns, improves developer experience through self-service platforms, and partners with application, infrastructure, security, and operations teams to improve delivery speed, reliability, scalability, and operational maturity across non-production and production environments.

Essential Functions:

• Serve as the senior technical escalation point for DevOps Engineers and project teams by mentoring on advanced automation, cloud platform design, deployment reliability, observability, and operational best practices.
• Lead root cause analysis for complex environment, deployment, infrastructure, performance, and reliability issues; communicate business impact, mitigation plans, and long-term corrective actions to management and stakeholders.
• Design, implement, and maintain modern CI/CD pipelines that support secure, repeatable, and observable delivery across application, infrastructure, database, and configuration changes.
• Engineer Infrastructure as Code and automation solutions using tools such as Terraform, Bicep, PowerShell, Python, Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, or similar technologies to provision, configure, and manage cloud and hybrid environments.
• Contribute to cloud engineering initiatives by designing scalable, secure, and cost-aware solutions across compute, storage, networking, identity, monitoring, and backup/recovery services.
• Advance platform engineering practices by building reusable templates, deployment patterns, self-service workflows, shared tooling, and documentation that reduce developer friction and standardize delivery across teams.
• Apply Site Reliability Engineering practices including service-level indicators, service-level objectives, error budgets, incident response, post-incident reviews, capacity planning, and toil reduction.
• Improve observability across systems by implementing and maintaining logging, metrics, tracing, dashboards, alerting, and telemetry that support faster detection, diagnosis, and recovery.
• Partner with development, infrastructure, database, security, and service desk teams to design resilient deployment and operational patterns for cloud, on-premises, hybrid, and enterprise application environments.
• Develop automation that improves environment provisioning, refreshes, patching, release readiness, configuration consistency, service account management, and test data management.
• Integrate security and compliance controls into delivery pipelines, automation frameworks, and platform services, including secrets management, identity and access controls, vulnerability checks, policy enforcement, and audit readiness.
• Use AI-enabled engineering and operations tools responsibly to accelerate troubleshooting, automate repetitive tasks, improve documentation, analyze telemetry, and enhance developer productivity while maintaining data security and human review.
• Support containerization and cloud-native practices where appropriate, including Docker, Kubernetes, orchestration, artifact management, image scanning, and deployment standardization.
• Create and maintain technical documentation, runbooks, knowledge base articles, architecture diagrams, and operational standards that enable consistent support and knowledge transfer.
• Research, evaluate, and recommend modern tools, patterns, and practices that improve software delivery, reliability, cloud operations, developer experience, and operational efficiency.
• Participate in incident response, release support, and after-hours escalation as needed for critical environment, deployment, or production-impacting issues.
• Complete all other duties as assigned.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities required:

• Strong understanding of modern DevOps practices, Agile delivery, release management, infrastructure automation, and operational support models.
• Hands-on experience with CI/CD tools such as Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, GitLab CI, or similar platforms.
• Ability to write, troubleshoot, and maintain automation using PowerShell, Python, Bash, SQL, YAML, JSON, or similar scripting and configuration languages.
• Working knowledge of cloud platforms and services, preferably Microsoft Azure, including compute, storage, networking, identity, security, monitoring, and cost optimization concepts.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code and configuration management tools such as Terraform, Bicep, ARM templates, Ansible, or equivalent technologies.
• Understanding of platform engineering principles, including reusable templates, internal developer platforms, self-service workflows, paved-road patterns, and developer experience improvements.
• Knowledge of Site Reliability Engineering practices including observability, incident response, post-incident reviews, reliability targets, capacity planning, and toil reduction.
• Familiarity with monitoring, logging, tracing, and alerting tools such as Azure Monitor, Application Insights, Log Analytics, Grafana, Prometheus, OpenTelemetry, Splunk, LogicMonitor, or similar solutions.
• Working knowledge of containers, orchestration, artifact repositories, deployment packaging, and cloud-native application patterns.
• Understanding of DevSecOps practices, including secure pipeline design, secrets management, identity and access controls, vulnerability scanning, and compliance automation.
• Ability to apply AI-assisted tools for engineering, operations, documentation, and troubleshooting while maintaining appropriate security, validation, and governance practices.
• Strong analytical, troubleshooting, communication, and documentation skills with the ability to work independently on complex technical initiatives.
• Demonstrable adaptability and flexibility in a fast-paced work environment.
• Adherence to the highest standards of safety, quality, reliability, and professionalism.

Salary Range: $102,200-$137,000

Qualifications:

• 5-7 years of progressive experience in DevOps, systems engineering, cloud engineering, platform engineering, infrastructure automation, software delivery, or related information technology roles.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent combination of education and relevant experience.
• Demonstrated experience designing, supporting, and improving CI/CD pipelines, automation frameworks, cloud or hybrid infrastructure, and operational tooling.
• Experience working with enterprise applications, databases, middleware, ERP platforms, or business-critical systems in development, test, staging, or production environments.
• Experience mentoring engineers, leading technical improvements, creating standards, and influencing adoption of modern delivery and reliability practices without direct people-management responsibility.
• Preferred certifications may include Microsoft Azure Administrator, Azure DevOps Engineer Expert, Azure Solutions Architect, HashiCorp Terraform Associate, Kubernetes, SRE, Agile, DevOps, or related industry certifications.
• Local to KC metro area.

Benefits:

At Performance Contracting, our employees are our greatest asset. We put our people first and are proud to provide a comprehensive benefits package designed to meet the needs of our employees at every stage of life.

In our commitment to fostering an environment where everyone can thrive personally and professionally, we offer:

• Competitive pay
• Incentive bonus plan
• Employee stock ownership plan (ESOP)
• 401(k) retirement savings plan with match
• Medical, prescription drug, dental, and vision insurance plans with flexible spending account option
• Life insurance, AD&D, and disability benefits
• Employee assistance program (EAP)
• Flexible paid time off policy and paid holidays

PCG provides equal employment and affirmative action opportunities to applicants and employees without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, or disability.

PCG is a background screening, drug-free workplace. In accordance with the provisions of Tennessee Code Annotated (T.C.A.), Title 50, Chapter 9, PCG's Drug-Free Workplace Program includes drug and alcohol testing as part of the hiring process and throughout employment, as applicable.

Please note this job description is not designed to contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties, or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change at any time with or without notice.