Senior DevOps Engineer

Role: Senior DevOps Engineer (hybrid)


Location: New York, NY


Client: Techblocks


Onsite Interview


Company Description


At TechBlocks, we power the software-defined industries (SDI) of today and tomorrow. We are a software engineering and consulting firm known for building world-class custom platforms and cloud-native products for some of the world's largest brands. Our approach is centered around Design Thinking and Lean Engineering, enabling us to create frictionless digital experiences and drive efficiencies for our clients. We partner with businesses ranging from $100M to $10B in revenue, helping them transition from technology outsourcing to creating globally distributed digital Centers of Excellence (COEs) and modern digital factories. Our work spans various sectors, including digital commerce, smart utilities, and digital health.

Job Overview


The DevOps Engineer is part of the DevOps team responsible for managing our infrastructure on GCP and collaborating with application developers to automate and expedite the testing, release, and deployment of applications into a runtime environment in a timely and dependable manner.


The ideal candidate will deeply understand cloud infrastructure and have experience with automation and deployment tools. You will work closely with the development and operations teams to design and implement infrastructure solutions that are scalable, secure, and highly

Roles and Responsibilities
• Design and implement end-to-end CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, GitHub Actions, and Argo CD for production-grade deployments.
• Define branching strategies and workflow templates for development teams.
• Automate infrastructure provisioning using Terraform, Helm, and Kubernetes manifests across multiple environments.
• Implement and maintain container orchestration strategies on GKE, including Helm-based deployments.
• Manage secrets lifecycle using Vault and integrate with CI/CD for secure deployments.
• Integrate DevSecOps tools like Trivy, SonarQube, and JFrog into CI/CD workflows.
• Collaborate with engineering leads to review deployment readiness and ensure quality gates are met.
• Monitor infrastructure health and capacity planning using Prometheus, Grafana, and Datadog; implement alerting rules.
• Implement auto-scaling, self-healing, and other resilience strategies in Kubernetes.

• Drive process documentation, review peer automation scripts, and provide mentoring to junior DevOps engineers

Experience Required:


7+ years in DevOps engineering roles with proven expertise in CI/CD, infrastructure automation, and Kubernetes.

Mandatory:

• Cloud: GCP (GKE, Compute Engine, Load Balancing, VPN, IAM)
• Monitoring: Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, Datadog
• CI/CD: Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Argo CD
• Containers & Orchestration: Kubernetes, Docker
• Incident Management: On-call, RCA, SLIs/SLOs
• IaC: Terraform, Helm
• Security: Vault, Shared VPC, Trivy, OWASP concepts
• Incident Tools: PagerDuty, OpsGenie

Nice to Have:

• GCP Monitoring, Service Mesh (Istio), Pub/Sub, API Gateway - Kong
• Advanced scripting (Python, Bash, Node.js)
• Skywalking, Rancher, Jira, Freshservice
• GCP Certification is Plus
• GCP Spanner, MongoDB (basic)