Senior DevOps Engineer

Centric Software provides an AI-enabled product-concept-to-commercialization platform for retailers, brands, and manufacturers. The company is seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer to build, deploy, and operate scalable, secure, highly available applications across cloud and on-premises environments while guiding development teams on application onboarding, production readiness, DevOps standards, and AI-assisted automation.

Responsibilities:

• Build, optimize, and maintain CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, GitLab, Bitbucket, or similar platforms
• Partner with development teams to onboard applications and implement consistent DevOps, deployment, security, observability, and operational standards
• Guide development teams on production readiness, including HA, scaling, monitoring, logging, health checks, security, backup, and supportability
• Automate infrastructure, application installation, upgrades, backup, and operational procedures using Bash, Python, Terraform, Helm, APIs, and related technologies
• Manage Kubernetes, Rancher, Docker, and containerized workloads across cloud and on-premises environments
• Architect and support deployments across AWS, Azure, and GCP
• Implement monitoring, logging, performance monitoring, and alerting using Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, New Relic, or similar tools
• Troubleshoot microservices and distributed systems including Kafka, RabbitMQ, PostgreSQL, SQL Server, Oracle, and MongoDB
• Perform root cause analysis and continuously improve reliability, scalability, security, performance, and deployment processes
• Leverage AI coding assistants, LLMs, AI agents, and AI-assisted automation to accelerate scripting, infrastructure development, CI/CD, troubleshooting, log analysis, documentation, testing, and repetitive operational tasks
• Identify opportunities to safely automate DevOps workflows using AI while maintaining appropriate validation and engineering oversight

Requirements:

• • Strong experience supporting 24×7, highly available production environments
• • Strong Bash and Python scripting and automation skills
• • Strong Docker, Kubernetes, Rancher, and Helm experience
• • Experience with Kubernetes certificate management, TLS, and service mesh technologies
• • Strong CI/CD experience, preferably with Jenkins
• • Strong Terraform and Infrastructure as Code experience
• • Experience with AWS, Azure, and GCP
• • Experience with Kafka/RabbitMQ and SQL/NoSQL databases
• • Experience with Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, New Relic, or similar observability platforms
• • Strong Linux administration and troubleshooting skills
• • Demonstrated experience working directly with development teams to onboard applications and drive adoption of DevOps processes, standards, and production-readiness requirements
• • Experience using AI-assisted development or DevOps tools to improve engineering productivity and automation
• • Strong problem-solving, communication, and cross-functional collaboration skills