Senior DevOps Engineer

Senior DevOps Engineer

Gluware · (US)

About Gluware

Gluware is the intelligent network automation industry leader, powering self-operating enterprise networking for Global 2000 companies across finance, healthcare, pharma, energy, and more. Our platform helps the world's largest enterprises prevent critical network outages, maintain compliance, and keep pace with ever-changing business requirements — through a multi-vendor, multi-platform, intent-based approach that requires no custom scripting.

Our solutions span the full network automation lifecycle: Discovery & Inventory, OS Manager, Config Model Editor, Config Drift & Audit, Network RPA, Topology, Workflows, and more — all backed by DIAL™ (our Device Interaction and Automation Layer). We're also actively building Gluware.ai
and Gluware Titan, bringing AI natively into network automation workflows.

We offer a competitive salary and benefits package, real growth opportunities, and a team that genuinely enjoys the work. Gluware is headquartered in Sacramento CA but our workforce is predominantly remote. This role is open to applicants across the United States. Come help us push enterprise networking forward.

Role Summary

As a Senior DevOps Engineer and member of the DevOps team, you will own the infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, release process, and multi-cloud operations that keep Gluware’s platform reliable and scalable for Global 2000 customers. You will partner closely with Engineering, QA, and Product to drive automation-first practices across cloud and datacenter environments, while championing security, observability, and developer experience across the organization.

Core Responsibilities

Infrastructure & Cloud Operations

Own design, provisioning, and day-to-day operations of multi-cloud infrastructure (AWS primary, Azure secondary) using IaC tools — Terraform and/or CloudFormation

Manage VPC architecture, multi-region deployments, peering, and disaster recovery automation

Maintain and evolve container orchestration (Kubernetes / EKS) and container image pipelines

Drive cloud cost optimization, capacity planning, and right-sizing initiatives

CI/CD & Release Engineering

Own and continuously improve the end-to-end CI/CD pipeline (Jenkins or equivalent)

Own and optimize release automation across dev, integration, staging, and production environments

Champion GitOps practices and automated deployment strategies (blue/green, canary)

Manage artifact repositories (Artifactory) and dependency scanning

Platform Reliability & Observability

Establish and maintain SLOs/SLAs; lead incident response, blameless post-mortems, and reliability improvements

Build and manage observability stack: metrics (Prometheus/Grafana or Datadog), logging (ELK/OpenSearch), and distributed tracing

Evolve on-call processes and runbooks to reduce MTTR

Security & Compliance

Assess and address vulnerabilities and integrate security tooling into pipelines (SAST, DAST, container scanning, secrets management via Vault or AWS Secrets Manager)

Maintain SOC 2 compliance posture; participate in audits and evidence collection

Manage access controls (LDAP and RBAC) across build tooling

Maintain source code escrow

Developer Enablement

Maintain and improve internal developer tooling, local dev environments, and self-service infrastructure capabilities

Collaborate with Engineering to define and enforce platform standards and best practices

Document architecture decisions and runbooks

Required Qualifications

5+ years of DevOps, SRE, or Platform Engineering experience in a product company

Extensive experience with configuration management (Ansible or Chef preferred

Deep hands-on AWS experience (EC2, EKS/ECS, RDS, S3, Lambda, CloudFormation, VPC, Route 53, IAM); Azure a plus

Strong IaC skills with Terraform (preferred) or Pulumi, CloudFormation, and packer

Solid CI/CD pipeline experience —Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab or equivalent; trunk-based development and deployment automation

Proficiency in at least one scripting/automation language: Typescript, Python, Bash, Ruby, or Go

Proficient with build management using nx + pnpm, maven, gradle

Hands-on container platform experience: Docker, Kubernetes (EKS or self-managed)

Strong Linux system administration and shell scripting skills

Solid networking fundamentals (DNS, load balancing, VPNs, VPC peering, security groups, firewalls)

Experience operating and improving observability stacks in production environments

Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Technology, or equivalent hands-on experience

Nice To Have

GitOps tooling familiarity (ArgoCD, Flux)

Experience with bazel

Experience with service mesh (Istio, Linkerd) or API gateway patterns

Knowledge of networking vendor ecosystems (Cisco, Juniper, Arista) — Gluware orchestrates these environments

Hands-on experience with AI/ML infrastructure or LLM-assisted DevOps workflows

AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Professional, CKA/CKAD, or equivalent certification

Familiarity with Java, JavaScript, and Node.js (the languages our product is built on)

Experience in a compliance-regulated SaaS environment (SOC 2, ISO 27001, or FedRAMP)

Experience

What We Offer

Competitive salary and comprehensive benefits

Meaningful equity — join a high-growth company at a compelling inflection point

Remote-friendly culture with a collaborative, low-ego engineering team

Real ownership: you will shape infrastructure decisions, not just execute tickets

The chance to work at the intersection of enterprise networking and cutting-edge AI automation

Interested? Please apply online at www.gluware.com/jobs

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