Sr. DevOps Engineer - 174218

ZP Group; United States; Remote; USD 150,000 - 175,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive benefits

Job summary

Piper Companies is seeking a Sr. DevOps Engineer for a Cloud and Technology company. The role is remote in the United States and reports to Platform Services, influencing architecture, platform APIs, and automated workflows.

You will lead Kubernetes-based deployments, ArgoCD, CI/CD pipelines, and FedRAMP High readiness, mentoring engineers and ensuring reliable, scalable systems.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of Platform Engineering or related experience.
• BS in CS, Engineering, or equivalent preferred.
• Strong Python/Go/Java programming and IaC experience.
• Kubernetes, ArgoCD, AWS, and CI/CD pipeline experience.
• Experience with FedRAMP High or GovCloud preferred.

Responsibilities

• Lead architecture, strategy, and technical direction for Platform Services.
• Design and enhance platform capabilities including K8s, ArgoCD, APIs, CI/CD pipelines.
• Create scalable onboarding and deployment solutions for engineers.
• Automate manual operations, deployment, and compliance processes.
• Collaborate with security and operations; lead architecture reviews.
• Mentor engineers and promote best practices in system design.

Skills

Kubernetes

ArgoCD

AWS

IaC

Python

Go

Java

Automation

Platform Engineering

Education

Bachelor's degree

Job description

Piper Companies is hiring a Sr. DevOps Engineer for a Cloud and Technology company. The Sr. DevOps Engineer will influence technical decisions across centralized platform APIs, reusable CI components, continuous delivery workflows, service onboarding, federal promotion automation, and paved-road platform capabilities. The Sr. DevOps Engineer role is a remote position.

Responsibilities of the Sr. DevOps Engineer Include:

• Lead the architecture, strategy, and technical direction of Platform Services supporting FedRAMP High and IL5 environments.
• Design and enhance platform capabilities including Kubernetes-based deployment systems, ArgoCD workflows, platform APIs, CI/CD pipelines, and federal promotion automation.
• Create and maintain scalable "golden path" solutions that enable engineering teams to onboard, deploy, and operate applications efficiently and securely.
• Drive the automation of manual operational, deployment, and compliance processes to improve reliability, auditability, and deployment consistency.
• Partner with engineering, security, and operations teams to lead architecture reviews, resolve technical challenges, and ensure platform readiness and operational excellence.
• Mentor engineers and represent Platform Services in planning, risk reviews, and technical discussions, promoting engineering best practices and high-quality system design.

Qualifications of the Sr. DevOps Engineer include:

• 8+ years of experience in Platform Engineering, SRE, Infrastructure Engineering, Cloud Operations, or Distributed Systems, including technical leadership across complex, multi-team initiatives.
• Excellent communication, architecture review, mentoring, and cross-functional collaboration skills, with a bachelor's degree in computer science, Engineering, or equivalent experience preferred.
• Strong object-oriented programming background with hands-on experience in Python, Go, Ruby, Java, or similar languages, along with infrastructure automation and Infrastructure as Code (IaC).
• Extensive experience with Kubernetes, ArgoCD, CI/CD pipelines, deployment orchestration, AWS, and operating highly available production environments.
• Proven ability to build platform tooling, deployment systems, and self-service "golden path" solutions that improve developer experience and operational efficiency.
• Strong understanding of reliability, observability, security, incident response, and translating compliance requirements into scalable engineering solutions; FedRAMP High, IL5, GovCloud, or regulated environment experience preferred.
• Excellent communication, architecture review, mentoring, and cross-functional collaboration skills, with a bachelor's degree in computer science, Engineering, or equivalent experience preferred.

Compensation for the Sr. DevOps Engineer include:

• $150,000-$175,000
• Full Comprehensive Benefits: Health, Vision, Dental, PTO, Paid Holiday and Sick Leave if Required by Law

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This job opens for applications on 9/10/26. Applications for this job will be accepted for at least 30 days from the posting date.