Senior DevOps Engineer

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Job Overview

Our client is seeking a highly experienced Senior DevOps Engineer to play a critical role in evolving and modernizing on-premise infrastructure into a highly automated, scalable, and observable platform. The environment supports over 2,000 hardware setups used daily by engineers and developers, requiring robust, reliable, and efficient infrastructure solutions.

This role focuses on driving automation, enhancing observability, and implementing data center-level practices within a complex, hardware-intensive ecosystem.

Key Responsibilities

Architect and implement automated infrastructure solutions for large-scale on-premise environments

Develop and maintain standardized OS images for deployment across approximately 2,000 hardware systems

Leverage Ansible to streamline configuration management, provisioning, and system lifecycle processes

Enhance platform consistency through automation and reusable infrastructure patterns

Design and maintain centralized logging and monitoring frameworks using Grafana, Loki, and Alloy

Ensure effective collection, processing, and analysis of system logs and performance metrics

Improve system transparency to enable efficient troubleshooting and performance optimization

Build scalable observability pipelines that provide actionable insights

Apply data center-inspired practices to ensure stability, scalability, and reproducibility of infrastructure

Identify system inefficiencies, potential failure points, and automation opportunities proactively

Maintain high availability and consistent performance across diverse hardware configurations

Partner with software developers, test engineers, and cross-functional teams to align infrastructure with platform needs

Act as a senior technical expert, mentoring team members and promoting DevOps best practices

Contribute to continuous improvement of processes, tools, and infrastructure architecture

Support a culture of knowledge sharing and technical excellence

Required Experience

Extensive experience as a DevOps, Platform, or Infrastructure Engineer in complex environments

Proven track record in managing large-scale automation using Ansible

Experience in building and maintaining automated OS provisioning pipelines and unified system images

Strong background in Linux systems and on-premise infrastructure management

Solid understanding of networking concepts, including TCP/IP and system-level troubleshooting

Hands-on experience with observability tools such as Grafana and centralized logging platforms (e.g., Loki, Alloy)

Proficiency in scripting using Python and/or shell scripting

Education Requirements

Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field (preferred)

Required Skills

DevOps and platform engineering

Linux system administration

Ansible automation at scale

Python and shell scripting

Grafana and observability tools

Software engineering principles

Networking fundamentals

Technical Environment

Automation & Configuration: Ansible, automated OS provisioning

Observability: Grafana, Loki, Alloy