Sr. Cloud Dev-Ops Engineer

Thorndale Partners; La Vergne (TN); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical plan

Prescription drugs

HSA

Vision

Dental

Health Care FSA

401K match

Life and AD&D

Employee Assistance

Tuition reimbursement

Volunteer programs

Onsite gym

Job summary

Thorndale Partners is seeking a Cloud Platform Engineer with Public Cloud and DevOps experience to join a team delivering complex cloud-based projects. The role emphasizes automation, CI/CD, Kubernetes, and security in a fast-paced, collaborative environment.

The position requires residing in or relocating to the Nashville, TN region. The team embraces agile methods, ongoing learning, and significant bonus opportunities along with an extensive benefits package.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in CS, Engineering or related field or equivalent work experience.
• 5+ years in systems, infra, cloud, or platform engineering.
• 2+ years with public cloud and infra automation.
• Proficient with Python, PowerShell, Bash for automation.
• Git proficient: branching, PR reviews, repo/workflow mgmt.
• Experience with CI/CD: Azure DevOps, GH Actions, or GitLab CI.
• Kubernetes experience: Helm, AKS/GKE, Traefik, image registries.
• Hands-on with public cloud: Azure and Google Cloud.
• Strong fault-finding and debugging in complex environments.

Responsibilities

• Troubleshoots infrastructure performance and resolves tickets.
• Lead or participate in projects to deploy new tech.
• Designs and tests infrastructure components and management tools.
• Maintains systems for availability, capacity, efficiency and performance.
• Implements security, backup and logging strategies.
• Creates scripts to automate tasks and reduce manual work.
• Documents configurations, runbooks and admin procedures.
• Produces designs with cost estimates and timelines.
• Sets goals and milestones for projects and drives delivery.
• Builds CI/CD pipelines using GitOps for deployments and drift detection.
• Operates and upgrades managed Kubernetes platforms and autoscaling.
• Owns vulnerability remediation and patching for platforms.
• Designs and maintains HAProxy Enterprise load balancers, TLS, routing.
• Ensures high availability of load balancing tiers and zero-downtime upgrades.
• Onboards applications to load balancing and implements traffic management.

Skills

Python

PowerShell

Bash

Git

CI/CD

Azure DevOps

GitHub Actions

GitLab CI

Kubernetes

Helm

AKS/GKE

Traefik

Terraform

Terraform/ARM

Prometheus/Grafana

Education

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering or related field

Tools

HAProxy Enterprise

Azure DevOps

GitHub Actions

GitLab CI

Kubernetes

Helm

AKS/GKE

Traefik

Terraform

Azure Resource Manager

OpenTelemetry

Prometheus

Grafana

Job description

We have a great opportunity for a Cloud Platform Engineer with Public Cloud and Dev-Ops background to join a unique team that not only has great technical projects and advancement but also an amazing benefits package, extensive PTO, work life balance, and significant bonus plan with career growth opportunities.

The Sr. Cloud Dev-Ops Engineer resolves escalated service issues, coaches’ other engineers to resolutions, engineers and implements complex projects, and maintains and oversees assigned technology pillars. ***This position will require 4 days in the office, candidates must be in or willing to relocate to the Nashville, TN region.

The technology team is blazing a trail by key initiatives around business intelligence, machine learning, continuous integration and omnichannel. We support diverse technology that highlights innovation through SaaS platforms, metadata, cloud, and containerization. Our teams are agile, and emphasize authenticity, creativity, and transparency upon a fact-based foundation.

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering or related field or directly related year for year work experience
• 5+ years in systems, infrastructure, cloud, or platform engineering, including at least 2 years working with public cloud and infrastructure automation
• Demonstrated proficiency with Python, PowerShell, and Bash for automation and tooling
• Proficiency with Git, including branching strategies, pull request review, and repository and workflow management
• Demonstrated experience with CI/CD platforms such as Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, or GitLab CI, including pipeline authoring and release automation
• Demonstrated experience with containerization and Kubernetes, including Helm, managed Kubernetes services (AKS/GKE), Traefik ingress, and container image build and registry workflows
• Hands-on experience operating production workloads in public cloud (Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud), including compute, networking, identity, storage, and cost management

Prefer experience in these areas as well:

• Demonstrated production experience administering software load balancers, specifically HAProxy Enterprise or equivalent, including frontend and backend configuration, ACLs, health checks, and TLS termination
• Working knowledge of Layer 4 and Layer 7 load balancing concepts, including session persistence, health checking, and HTTP routing
• Working knowledge of Linux and Windows Server administration in cloud-hosted environments, including hardening and patching
• Experience with metrics, logs, and distributed tracing, including OpenTelemetry instrumentation and SLO-based alerting
• Working knowledge of cloud security practices including least privilege, network segmentation, secrets management, hardening baselines, and vulnerability remediation

RESPONSIBILITIES and Day to Day activities:

• Troubleshoots problems related to physical and virtual infrastructure performance and resolves trouble tickets as assigned
• Manages, participates, or performs tasks related to specific projects to implement new technology as assigned
• Designs, builds, configures, integrates, deploys and tests infrastructure components, operating systems, application software and system management tools
• Designs, builds, maintains and monitors systems and platforms ensuring they consistently exceed defined goals for availability, capacity, efficiency, scalability, and performance
• Designs, builds, implements, and maintains security, redundancy, backup, and logging strategies
• Evaluates, maintains, and modifies established best practices for infrastructure maintenance and asset management
• Creates and maintains custom scripts to increase system efficiency and lower the human intervention time on manual tasks
• Creates and maintains documentation for system configurations, runbooks, and administration procedures in the team's designated knowledge base
• Produces solution designs and technical specifications, including cost estimates, resource requirements, and delivery timelines
• Sets technical goals and delivery milestones for assigned projects and drives them to completion, coordinating with project management and stakeholder teams
• Implements and utilizes configuration automation tools such as Ansible, Puppet, or Chef
• Partners with architecture and security teams to define and implement automation standards and reusable infrastructure patterns
• Implements and utilizes IaC tools such as Terraform, Bicep, and Azure Resource Manager to consistently provision resources
• Deploys and maintains monitoring and observability tooling (Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, and enterprise platforms in use), and builds dashboards and alerting that reflect service-level objectives
• Organizes priorities, escalates problems as needed, and communicates effectively with manager, co-workers, and clients
• Participates in vendor and technology evaluations, including proof-of-concept work, technical due diligence, and total-cost analysis
• Mentors and develops other engineers through code review, pairing, runbook development, and knowledge transfer, and continuously improves team processes
• Builds and maintains CI/CD pipelines for infrastructure and platform changes, using GitOps workflows for deployment and drift detection
• Operates and upgrades managed Kubernetes platforms, including cluster lifecycle, autoscaling, ingress, and workload onboarding
• Owns vulnerability remediation and patching for assigned platforms against defined SLAs, coordinating with security on risk acceptance and exception handling
• Designs, configures, and maintains application load balancing services using HAProxy Enterprise, including frontend and backend configuration, health checks, ACL-based routing, and TLS termination
• Maintains high availability of load balancing tiers, including redundant and clustered configurations, failover testing, and zero-downtime configuration reloads and upgrades
• Onboards applications to load balancing services and implements traffic management patterns such as weighted routing, blue/green and canary releases, and rate limiting
• Manages TLS certificate lifecycle for load-balanced services, including issuance, renewal automation, and cipher and protocol standards

PERKS:

• A highly competitive compensation package with generous benefits beginning first day of employment for Medical/Prescription Drug plans, HSA, Vision, Dental and Health Care FSA.
• 401K match, Life and AD&D, Employee Assistance programs, Group Legal
• Wellness program with access to onsite gym
• Encouraged continued education with our tuition reimbursement program
• Financial and in-kind opportunities to engage with non-profits in your community
• Company match program for United Way donations
• Volunteer opportunities and in-kind drives for non-profits throughout the year
• Take breaks or brainstorm in our game room