Sr DevOps Engineer

McLane; Temple (TX); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Day 1 Benefits

Paid time off day one

Pet insurance

Maternity/paternity leave

Employee assistance programs

Discount programs

Tuition reimbursement

Job summary

McLane is seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer to design, implement, and support enterprise CI/CD pipelines, cloud-native platforms, and containerized workloads. You will partner with software engineers, platform, infrastructure, and security teams to modernize deployment processes, improve efficiency, and advance engineering standards.

This hybrid role requires reporting to the Temple, TX office at least three days per week and candidates should live within a 50-minute radius.

Qualifications

• Six+ years in DevOps or related fields.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience.
• Hands-on with containerization and cloud-native architectures.
• Proven CI/CD design for large-scale applications.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and support enterprise CI/CD pipelines.
• Lead deployment and operations of containerized apps with Kubernetes.
• Develop Helm charts and deployment templates.
• Manage secrets and security-conscious deployments.
• Improve delivery automation and environment consistency.
• Collaborate across engineering, platform, and security teams.
• Support Git-based workflows, release management, and branching.
• Promote blue-green, canary, rolling deployments, and feature flags.

Skills

Docker

Kubernetes

CI/CD pipelines

Git workflows

Jenkins

Azure DevOps

GitHub Actions

Helm

Deployment automation

Observability

Troubleshooting

Communication

Mentoring

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Jenkins

Azure DevOps

GitHub Actions

Kubernetes

Docker

Helm

Job description

About this job

Take your career further with McLane!
McLane teammates, the driving force behind our success, are diverse professionals who work together seamlessly to keep our operations running smoothly. McLane leaders think long-term, act with purpose, and inspire high performance. They lead with accountability, communicate clearly, and drive results through collaboration, innovation, and continuous growth. They empower each teammate to learn from industry leaders, develop their skills, and build lasting connections nationwide.
The Senior DevOps Engineer is responsible for designing, implementing, automating, and supporting enterprise integration and DevOps capabilities that enable secure, scalable, and reliable application delivery across McLane’s technology environment. Working with a high degree of independence, this role partners with software engineers, architects, platform teams, infrastructure teams, and security teams to modernize deployment processes, improve operational efficiency, and advance engineering standards.
The Sr. DevOps Engineer develops and supports continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipelines, cloud-native platforms, containerized workloads, and automation frameworks while promoting best practices for deployment automation, observability, platform reliability, and developer enablement. This role also provides technical leadership, supports complex issue resolution, and helps advance modern Development Operations (DevOps) and Internal Developer Platform capabilities across the organization.
This is a hybrid position which will require the candidate to report and work from the office at least three days a week. Therefore, interested candidates should be within a 50-minute radius from Temple, TX.

Benefits you can count on:

• Day 1 Benefits: medical, dental, and vision insurance, FSA/HSA, and company-paid life insurance.
• Paid time off begins day one.
• Additional benefits: pet insurance, maternity/paternity leave, employee assistance programs, discount programs, tuition reimbursement program, and more!

What You’ll Do:

• Design, develop, implement, and support enterprise CI/CD pipelines that enable secure, reliable, and efficient software delivery across multiple environments.
• Lead the deployment and operational support of containerized applications using Kubernetes, Docker, and cloud-native technologies.
• Configure, maintain, and optimize Kubernetes resources, including Deployments, Pods, Services, ConfigMaps, Secrets, Ingress components, image repositories or image streams, and namespaces.
• Develop and maintain Helm charts, reusable deployment templates, and automation scripts that standardize and streamline application deployments.
• Implement and support secrets management solutions across development, testing, and production environments.
• Partner with engineering teams to improve software delivery, deployment automation, environment consistency, and operational efficiency.
• Support Git-based development workflows, source control governance, release management processes, and branching strategies, including GitFlow and trunk-based development.
• Implement and promote modern deployment strategies, including blue-green deployments, canary releases, rolling deployments, feature flags, and Version A and Version B (A/B) testing.
• Contribute to Internal Developer Platform initiatives that improve developer productivity, self-service capabilities, and delivery consistency.
• Design and support monitoring, logging, alerting, observability, and performance management solutions across enterprise applications and platforms.
• Troubleshoot and resolve complex deployment, infrastructure, integration, application, and performance issues across environments.
• Collaborate with software engineering, architecture, platform, infrastructure, security, and operations teams to establish and implement DevOps best practices.
• Create and maintain technical documentation, operational runbooks, deployment standards, and support procedures.
• Evaluate emerging cloud, DevOps, automation, and platform technologies and recommend improvements that strengthen engineering and operational capabilities.
• Provide technical guidance and knowledge sharing to engineers and business partners regarding DevOps tools, deployment practices, and platform capabilities.
• Clearly communicate technical concepts, recommendations, risks, and operational impacts to technical and non-technical audiences.
• Escalate technical, security, operational, or delivery risks appropriately and recommend mitigation strategies.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

What We’re Looking For:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Information Systems, or a related field, or equivalent relevant experience.
• Six or more years of experience in DevOps engineering, platform engineering, integration engineering, site reliability engineering, cloud engineering, or a related technical field.
• Strong hands-on experience with containerization technologies, including Docker and Kubernetes.
• Experience designing, deploying, and supporting cloud-native applications and modern platform architectures.
• Advanced experience building, maintaining, and optimizing Continuous Integration/ Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) pipelines using Jenkins, Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, or similar platforms.
• Strong experience with source control management, Git workflows, and branching strategies, including GitFlow and trunk-based development.
• Experience implementing blue-green deployments, canary releases, rolling deployments, feature flags, and A/B testing.
• Experience developing and maintaining Helm charts, Kubernetes resources, and deployment automation solutions.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code, configuration management, and automated environment provisioning practices.
• Hands-on experience with secrets management solutions and secure application deployment practices.
• Experience with monitoring, logging, observability, alerting, and application performance management tools.
• Experience supporting enterprise integration platforms, Application Programming Interface (API)-based architectures, or distributed systems.
• Working knowledge of cloud platforms such as Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform, Amazon Web Services, or similar environments.
• Strong troubleshooting, analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making skills.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills with the ability to communicate technical information to technical and non-technical audiences.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities and complex technical initiatives in a fast-paced environment.
• Ability to mentor team members, influence technical direction, and drive continuous improvement.
• Ability to read, write, and understand English at a level sufficient to perform job‑related tasks effectively and safely, including understanding work instructions, safety protocols, and essential communications.

Fit the following? We want you here!

• Teamwork oriented
• Organized
• Detailed

Our roadmap. Our story.

We’ve been forging our path as a leader in the distribution industry since 1894. Building an expansive nationwide network of team members for 130+ years has allowed us to stay agile for our clients across the restaurant, retail, and e-commerce industries. We look to the future and are ready to continue making industry‑defining moves by embracing the newest technology into our practices, continuing team member training, and emphasizing our people‑centered culture.

Candidates may be subject to a background check and drug screen, in accordance with applicable laws.

All applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.

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