Senior DevOps Engineer

**This is an opportunity to join a collaborative team of cloud and DevOps professionals delivering impactful projects and managing complex client environments. This role is fully remote, indefinitely.**

A Senior DevOps Engineer plays a critical role in building, automating, and maintaining infrastructure that supports fast, secure, and reliable software delivery. This role focuses on streamlining CI/CD pipelines, optimizing cloud environments, and enforcing best practices around deployment, monitoring, and scaling. The role involves working closely with Development, QA, and IT teams to ensure the platform remains stable, scalable, and developer friendly.

Highlights & Benefits of working at Emergent Software

• Work closely with other talented cloud engineers. Our vetting process means you can count on your team members to know what they are talking about.

• Work from home or work remotely from anywhere you want

• Flexible work schedule meaning you can work regular hours or choose weekends and evenings

• Work-life balance is essential and highly valued at Emergent Software. If you choose to work more than 40 hours, you’ll be compensated for the extra work!

• Work on interesting projects solving complex business problems with custom software.

• 100 hours per year to focus on your professional development. We invest in your growth!

• Grow your career without leaving the tech track. At Emergent Software, you can advance and be recognized as a technical expert without transitioning into people management. We value deep technical expertise as much as leadership and have established clear career paths for those who want to stay hands-on. Profit sharing bonus means as we’re successful, you’re successful

• Excellent benefits package including medical insurance, dental, vision, 401(k) matching, FSA, disability, life insurance, and paid parental leave

Responsibilities

• Automation: Designing and implementing automation for common tasks including CI/CD Pipelines, Infrastructure Provisioning, Monitoring / Alerting, Configuration Management, Customer onboarding, etc.

• Infrastructure Management: Designing and maintaining cloud infrastructure, ensuring it is scalable, secure, and cost-effective

• Collaboration: Working closely with development and operations teams to ensure seamless integration and delivery of software.

• Security: Implementing security best practices to protect the infrastructure and data.\Continuous Improvement: Continuously evaluating and improving processes to enhance efficiency and reliability.

• Monitoring and Troubleshooting: Setting up monitoring tools to track system performance and quickly address any issues that arise.

Consulting and Client Engagement Context

This role operates within a consulting environment, supporting multiple client engagements that vary widely in technical maturity, documentation quality, and constraints. Success in this role requires strong technical judgment, adaptability, and the ability to build trust with clients while driving meaningful technical outcomes.

• Engage directly with clients to understand business goals, technical constraints, and risk tolerance

• Diagnose and improve existing systems that may be partially implemented or inconsistently managed

• Communicate technical concepts, tradeoffs, and recommendations clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders

• Balance pragmatic delivery with long-term maintainability and best practices

• Operate effectively in situations with incomplete information and evolving requirements

• Accurately track time and work performed to support client billing, project planning, and overall project health within a professional services delivery model

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience in DevOps, cloud engineering, or infrastructure roles

• Strong experience designing and supporting cloud environments, preferably in Azure or AWS

• Hands-on experience with infrastructure as code and automated deployments

• Deep understanding of CI/CD concepts and pipeline design

• Strong troubleshooting skills in distributed systems

• Experience working directly with stakeholders or clients

• Ability to operate independently and take ownership of delivery outcomes

Technical Skills

A Senior DevOps Engineer brings a strong blend of technical and operational skills to streamline software delivery and infrastructure management. You should be comfortable wo