Sr. Cloud Dev-Ops Engineer

Thorndale Partners; La Vergne (TN); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Generous benefits package

Extensive PTO

Significant bonus plan

Career growth opportunities

Wellness program

Job summary

Thorndale Partners seeks a Sr. Cloud Dev-Ops Engineer to drive cloud platform initiatives, automation, and CI/CD excellence. The role emphasizes Kubernetes, IaC, and security with a strong focus on cost management and reliability.

The ideal candidate will work across Azure and Google Cloud, mentor engineers, and contribute to a fast-paced, innovative environment with a robust bonus plan and career growth opportunities. Four days in office in the Nashville region are expected.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in systems, infrastructure, cloud, or platform engineering
• 2+ years with public cloud and infrastructure automation
• Proficient in Python, PowerShell, and Bash for automation
• Experience with CI/CD platforms and GitOps workflows
• Hands-on with Kubernetes, Helm, and managed services (AKS/GKE)

Responsibilities

• Troubleshoot and resolve infrastructure performance issues
• Design, build, deploy, and test infrastructure components and OS
• Maintain security, redundancy, backup, and logging strategies
• Develop automation scripts and runbooks, document configurations
• Lead CI/CD pipelines for infra changes and drift detection
• Operate and upgrade managed Kubernetes platforms and clusters
• Own vulnerability remediation and patching per SLAs
• Collaborate with architecture and security teams on automation standards

Skills

Python

PowerShell

Bash

Git

CI/CD

Azure DevOps

GitHub Actions

GitLab CI

Kubernetes

Helm

AKS

GKE

Traefik

Terraform

Ansible

Puppet

Chef

Prometheus

Grafana

OpenTelemetry

Azure Resource Manager

Linux

Windows Server

Education

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

Tools

Terraform

Bicep

Azure Resource Manager

Ansible

Puppet

Chef

Prometheus

Grafana

OpenTelemetry

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