Company Description

Velotic™ is a leading independent industrial software company providing data-driven solutions that improve manufacturing efficiency, productivity, and operational insight. Serving customers across manufacturing, oil & gas, utilities, and infrastructure, the company generates more than $300 million in revenue. Velotic's portfolio, anchored by Proficy, Kepware, and ThingWorx, supports the growing data and performance requirements of industrial operators globally, with an emphasis on AI-enabled manufacturing and industrial software.

Job Description

We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Staff DevOps Engineer to join our Smart Factory Cloud Team. This role requires deep expertise in AWS, cloud infrastructure, automation and CI/CD practices to support and enhance our enterprise SaaS platform. The ideal candidate will have a strong hands-on background in building and managing scalable, secure and resilient cloud environments, with a strong passion for process optimization and automation.

Key Responsibilities:

• Design, implement and maintain highly scalable and secure cloud environments on AWS.

• Manage and optimize AWS services including VPC, EC2, EKS, RDS, AppStream and other key cloud components.

• Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines using GitHub, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, ArgoCD and GitOps methodologies.

• Define and implement Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform/OpenTofu, Crossplane or CloudFormation.

• Establish and improve monitoring and alerting solutions using OpenTelemetry (Otel), SignalFX, CloudWatch and Splunk.

• Develop automation scripts and tools using GitHub Actions, Jenkins or other scripting languages.

• Basic troubleshooting and optimize PostgreSQL, SQL and RDS databases for performance and reliability.

• Enforce security best practices in cloud environments and advocate for secure SDLC processes.

• Drive adoption of ITIL and Agile methodologies to ensure efficient operations and incident management.

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams in a geographically distributed environment.

• Mentor junior engineers and provide technical leadership to the DevOps team.

Required Qualifications:

• 8+ years of strong hands-on experience in DevOps, CloudOps or SaaS Ops, managing large-scale enterprise SaaS applications in public cloud (preferably AWS).

• Strong expertise in AWS cloud services, networking, security and cost optimization.

• Deep understanding of containerized application deployments using EKS and ArgoCD.

• Hands-on experience with CI/CD tools like GitHub Actions, Jenkins and GitOps methodologies.

• Expertise in Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform, Crossplane or CloudFormation.

• Knowledge of database management with PostgreSQL, MS SQL or AWS RDS.

• Experience in setting up monitoring and logging solutions using OpenTelemetry, SignalFX and Splunk.

• Strong scripting and automation skills using Python, Bash or other scripting tools.

• Excellent understanding of ITIL, Agile methodologies and DevOps best practices.

• Strong interpersonal and communication skills, with the ability to collaborate across global teams.

• Ability to work in fast-paced, high-pressure environments and drive initiatives independently.

Qualifications

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience setting up enterprise SaaS environments from scratch.

• Knowledge of security frameworks and best practices in cloud environments.

• Familiarity with compliance standards such as SOC2, ISO 27001 and GDPR.

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