Senior DevOps Engineer

Senior DevOps Engineer

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Avid makes technology and collaborative tools so creators can entertain, inform, educate, and enlighten the world. Our customers are the visionaries behind the most inspiring feature films, television programs, news broadcasts, televised sporting events, music recording and live concerts. To learn how Avid powers greater creators or for more information, visit

JOB SUMMARY

The Senior DevOps Engineer works with application developers to automate and accelerate the testing, release, and deployment of applications on Avid's cloud platform, Avid Content Core, a multi-tenant SaaS running on AWS EKS. As part of a team composed entirely of senior engineers, the Senior DevOps Engineer will be expected to operate with a high degree of autonomy and collaborate as a peer with other senior team members, sharing ownership of architectural decisions, cross-training on each other's areas of depth, and raising the bar on engineering practices across the team. As such, the ideal candidate must have experience clearly explaining solutions to complex problems and demonstrate the ability to influence and align other experienced engineers, not just execute independently.

This role is based remotely in Poland and will be following 8:00 AM - 5:00 PM CET schedule (Monday to Friday).

RESPONSIBILITIES AND DUTIES

• Establish and employ GitOps-based Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery practices (ArgoCD, GitHub Actions)
• Implement industry Continuous Delivery patterns — progressive delivery, blue-green/canary rollouts (Argo Rollouts) and collaboratively work with other members to achieve successful continuous delivery solutions
• Identify manual processes that can be automated, particularly around multi-tenant provisioning and infrastructure-as-code
• Provide last-level technical support as needed
• Build tools to reduce occurrences of errors and improve customer experience
• Perform root cause analysis for production errors across a multi-tenant SaaS environment
• Design procedures for system troubleshooting and maintenance
• Guide teams in designing, building, testing, and deploying changes to existing software, with an eye toward per-tenant isolation and blast-radius containment
• Consider the organization's entire IT infrastructure, networking, security, identity, and observability when making changes and improvements

QUALIFICATIONS & SKILLS

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, closely related subject, or relevant experience
• 5 or more years of experience designing large and complex cloud environments
• Background in development, operations, and full-stack implementations
• Experience programming in a high-level language such as Python, Go, Java, or similar to script installation, configuration, and provisioning
• Strong understanding of application development methodologies
• Proficient with AWS, Terraform, GitHub Actions (or similar CI), Docker, Kubernetes/EKS, Istio, ArgoCD
• Experience with GitOps tooling for multi-tenant infrastructure provisioning (Crossplane or similar) a strong plus
• Working knowledge of PostgreSQL and schema migration practices in a microservices context
• Familiarity with policy-based authorization (OPA) and service mesh security patterns a plus
• Problem-solving attitude
• Collaborative team spirit
• Ability to clearly articulate design and implementation choices
• Ability to use a wide variety of open-source technologies and tools
• Comfort with collaboration, open communication, and reaching across functional borders

Salary Ranges: MIN 185,848.80 to MAX 278,773.20 PLN Annual

The salary range shown reflects the company's good faith full target range for this position at the time of posting. The company may update or modify this range at any time and endeavors to keep this posting current. Compensation decisions are based on factors including geographic location, experience, skills, education, and business needs. While the full range is posted for transparency, offers are typically made within the lower to middle portion of the range.

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