Senior DevOps Engineer

Senior DevOps Engineer

Gluware • (US)

About Gluware

Gluware is the intelligent network automation industry leader, powering self-operating enterprise networking for Global 2000 companies across finance, healthcare, pharma, energy, and more. Our platform helps the world's largest enterprises prevent critical network outages, maintain compliance, and keep pace with ever-changing business requirements - through a multi-vendor, multi-platform, intent-based approach that requires no custom scripting.

Our solutions span the full network automation lifecycle: Discovery & Inventory, OS Manager, Config Model Editor, Config Drift & Audit, Network RPA, Topology, Workflows, and more - all backed by DIAL™ (our Device Interaction and Automation Layer). We're also actively building Gluware.ai
and Gluware Titan, bringing AI natively into network automation workflows.

We offer a competitive salary and benefits package, real growth opportunities, and a team that genuinely enjoys the work. Gluware is headquartered in Sacramento CA but our workforce is predominantly remote. This role is open to applicants across the United States. Come help us push enterprise networking forward.

Role Summary

As a Senior DevOps Engineer and member of the DevOps team, you will own the infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, release process, and multi-cloud operations that keep Gluware's platform reliable and scalable for Global 2000 customers. You will partner closely with Engineering, QA, and Product to drive automation-first practices across cloud and datacenter environments, while championing security, observability, and developer experience across the organization.

Core Responsibilities

Infrastructure & Cloud Operations

• Own design, provisioning, and day-to-day operations of multi-cloud infrastructure (AWS primary, Azure secondary) using IaC tools - Terraform and/or CloudFormation
• Manage VPC architecture, multi-region deployments, peering, and disaster recovery automation
• Maintain and evolve container orchestration (Kubernetes / EKS) and container image pipelines
• Drive cloud cost optimization, capacity planning, and right-sizing initiatives

CI/CD & Release Engineering

• Own and continuously improve the end-to-end CI/CD pipeline (Jenkins or equivalent)
• Own and optimize release automation across dev, integration, staging, and production environments
• Champion GitOps practices and automated deployment strategies (blue/green, canary)
• Manage artifact repositories (Artifactory) and dependency scanning

Platform Reliability & Observability

• Establish and maintain SLOs/SLAs; lead incident response, blameless post-mortems, and reliability improvements
• Build and manage observability stack: metrics (Prometheus/Grafana or Datadog), logging (ELK/OpenSearch), and distributed tracing
• Evolve on-call processes and runbooks to reduce MTTR

Security & Compliance

• Assess and address vulnerabilities and integrate security tooling into pipelines (SAST, DAST, container scanning, secrets management via Vault or AWS Secrets Manager)
• Maintain SOC 2 compliance posture; participate in audits and evidence collection
• Manage access controls (LDAP and RBAC) across build tooling
• Maintain source code escrow

Developer Enablement

• Maintain and improve internal developer tooling, local dev environments, and self-service infrastructure capabilities
• Collaborate with Engineering to define and enforce platform standards and best practices
• Document architecture decisions and runbooks

Required Qualifications

• 5+ years of DevOps, SRE, or Platform Engineering experience in a product company
• Extensive experience with configuration management (Ansible or Chef preferred
• Deep hands-on AWS experience (EC2, EKS/ECS, RDS, S3, Lambda, CloudFormation, VPC, Route 53, IAM); Azure a plus
• Strong IaC skills with Terraform (preferred) or Pulumi, CloudFormation, and packer
• Solid CI/CD pipeline experience -Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab or equivalent; trunk-based development and deployment automation
• Proficiency in at least one scripting/automation language: Typescript, Python, Bash, Ruby, or Go
• Proficient with build management using nx + pnpm, maven, gradle
• Hands-on container platform experience: Docker, Kubernetes (EKS or self-managed)
• Strong Linux system administration and shell scripting skills
• Solid networking fundamentals (DNS, load balancing, VPNs, VPC peering, security groups, firewalls)
• Experience operating and improving observability stacks in production environments
• Bachelor's degree in computer science, Information Technology, or equivalent hands-on experience

Nice To Have

• GitOps tooling familiarity (ArgoCD, Flux)
• Experience with bazel
• Experience with service mesh (Istio, Linkerd) or API gateway patterns
• Knowledge of networking vendor ecosystems (Cisco, Juniper, Arista) - Gluware orchestrates these environments
• Hands-on experience with AI/ML infrastructure or LLM-assisted DevOps workflows
• AWS Certified DevOps Engineer - Professional, CKA/CKAD, or equivalent certification
• Familiarity with Java, JavaScript, and Node.js (the languages our product is built on)
• Experience in a compliance-regulated SaaS environment (SOC 2, ISO 27001, or FedRAMP)
• Experience

What We Offer

• Competitive salary and comprehensive benefits
• Meaningful equity - join a high-growth company at a compelling inflection point
• Remote-friendly culture with a collaborative, low-ego engineering team
• Real ownership: you will shape infrastructure decisions, not just execute tickets
• The chance to work at the intersection of enterprise networking and cutting-edge AI automation

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Gluware is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.