DevOps Engineering,

Senior DevOps EngineerApex Systems is seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer to join a product engineering organization building a next-generation, cloud-based B2B SaaS platform. This role will serve as the bridge between Development and Infrastructure, ensuring the platform is designed for scalability, automation, security, observability, and operational excellence from day one. The ideal candidate will bring hands-on experience building and supporting cloud-native applications while helping establish the deployment and operational foundations for a new multi-tenant SaaS product.The Senior DevOps Engineer will partner closely with engineering, infrastructure, product, security, and support teams to ensure environments are reliable, repeatable, and built for growth.Lead infrastructure-focused design discussions and provide real-world deployment expertise during product development.Help architect and support a cloud-native, multi-tenant SaaS platform.Design, build, and maintain CI/CD pipelines supporting product releases and customer deployments.Design and support containerized workloads and orchestration platforms.Ensure security best practices are embedded throughout the infrastructure and application lifecycle.Partner with engineering leadership to ensure applications are designed for availability, scalability, and supportability.Train and enable infrastructure teams on deployment processes, automation, and operational best practices.Troubleshoot complex production issues spanning networking, infrastructure, applications, and data flow.Participate in an on-call rotation supporting production systems.Required Qualifications5+ years of experience in DevOps, Platform Engineering, Cloud Engineering, Systems Engineering, or related disciplines.Hands-on experience with AWS and/or Azure.Strong experience with CI/CD pipelines and release automation.Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, and container orchestration platforms.Experience with monitoring and observability platforms such as New Relic, Prometheus, Grafana, or similar tools.Experience with configuration management solutions such as Ansible, Chef, or Puppet.Strong automation and scripting skills using PowerShell, Bash, Python, or similar languages.Strong networking knowledge including routing, firewalls, load balancing, reverse proxies, and traffic flow analysis.Deep understanding of infrastructure and application security principles.Familiarity with SQL and data warehousing concepts.Preferred QualificationsExperience supporting and scaling customer-facing B2B SaaS products.Software development experience beyond administrative scripting.Experience building deployment automation for commercial software products.Experience transitioning products from development through production deployment and operational support.What Success Looks LikeThe platform is designed for deployment, scalability, security, and supportability from the beginning. Customer environments can be deployed, upgraded, and maintained through reliable automation. Monitoring, security, and observability are built into the platform rather than added later. Internal teams are equipped to support and scale the platform as adoption grows.Ideal Candidate ProfileThis role is ideal for a hands-on DevOps professional who understands both software delivery and infrastructure operations. The successful candidate can operate comfortably across applications, cloud infrastructure, networking, automation, and production support while bringing a practical approach to solving problems. They are highly collaborative, technically curious, strong communicators, and capable of helping a growing product organization build the operational foundation required to support a modern SaaS platform at scale.