Sr Lead Appl Developer

Fairygodboss; Alpharetta (GA); On-site; USD 170,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Collaborative culture

Mentorship opportunities

High-impact projects

Ownership of change-driven projects

Job summary

ADP is seeking a senior DevOps/Lead SRE to design, build, and maintain cloud-based solutions on AWS/Azure, focusing on reliability, scalability, and security.

You will lead cross‑functional teams, drive automation with Terraform, Jenkins, Helm, and Kubernetes, and mentor engineers while promoting resilient designs.

Join ADP to influence large-scale client systems and drive ownership of change-driven projects in a collaborative, inclusive culture.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent.
• 10+ years in a Lead DevOps, Lead SRE, or similar role.
• Experience building fully automated, highly elastic cloud‑orchestrated platforms on AWS or Azure.
• Hands‑on experience with Cloud (AWS, EKS), Containerization (K8S), Orchestration (Terraform, Ansible, Jenkins, Helm), Clustering, and CI/CD tools at enterprise scale.
• Expertise in scripting languages such as Python.
• Experience with observability and monitoring tools like Dynatrace and Splunk.
• Certifications in AWS/Cloud & K8S/Containers are a plus.

Responsibilities

• Lead and provide hands‑on solutions across multiple products and teams to accelerate feature delivery while ensuring strong security and resilient designs.
• Participate in daily scrums to coordinate responsibilities, identify issues, and set coding priorities.
• Act as the point person for developers and operations, presenting solutions and system designs to leadership.
• Design and extend existing DevOps and CI/CD tools to help products reach market faster with automation.
• Support engineers by diagnosing issues, writing code to fix them, and quickly adapting to changing product needs.
• Apply new technologies, deliver solutions, and iterate using a ‘fail fast, fail safe’ approach.

Skills

Cloud (AWS/Azure)

Kubernetes (EKS)

Terraform

CI/CD tooling (Jenkins, Helm)

Python scripting

Observability (Dynatrace, Splunk)

Leadership / mentoring

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

Jenkins

Helm

Kubernetes (EKS)

Job description

Job Overview

In this role, you will design, build, and maintain cloud‑based solutions that automate, execute, and implement processes for ADP’s payroll, tax, HR, and benefits platforms. Your focus will be on keeping these services highly reliable, available, and scalable.

Responsibilities

• Lead and provide hands‑on solutions across multiple products and teams to accelerate feature delivery while ensuring strong security and resilient designs.
• Participate in daily scrums to coordinate responsibilities, identify issues, and set coding priorities.
• Act as the point person for developers and operations, presenting solutions and system designs to leadership.
• Design and extend existing DevOps and CI/CD tools to help products reach market faster with automation.
• Support engineers by diagnosing issues, writing code to fix them, and quickly adapting to changing product needs.
• Apply new technologies, deliver solutions, and iterate using a ‘fail fast, fail safe’ approach.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent.
• 10+ years in a Lead DevOps, Lead SRE, or similar role.
• Experience building fully automated, highly elastic cloud‑orchestrated platforms on AWS or Azure.
• Hands‑on experience with Cloud (AWS, EKS), Containerization (K8S), Orchestration (Terraform, Ansible, Jenkins, Helm), Clustering, and CI/CD tools at enterprise scale.
• Expertise in scripting languages such as Python.
• Experience with observability and monitoring tools like Dynatrace and Splunk.
• Certifications in AWS/Cloud & K8S/Containers are a plus.

Benefits

• Collaborative and inclusive team culture that values ownership and open dialogue.
• Opportunity to work on large‑scale client systems and provide high-impact outcomes.
• Chance to learn from and mentor high‑performing colleagues.
• Hands‑on ownership of change‑driven projects and complex problem solving.
• Recognition of community contribution and philanthropic support.
• Commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion across all levels of the organization.

Diversity, Equity, Inclusion & Equal Employment Opportunity at ADP: ADP is committed to an inclusive, diverse and equitable workplace, and is further committed to providing equal employment opportunities regardless of any protected characteristic including: race, color, genetic information, creed, national origin, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, lawful alien status, ancestry, age, marital status, protected veteran status, or disability. Hiring decisions are based upon ADP’s operating needs, applicant merit, and job performance.