Senior DevOps Engineer (Cortex Research)

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Job Summary

Your Career

As a Senior DevOps Engineer supporting our Cortex Research Group you will lead all DevOps and infrastructure initiatives that empower our researchers to move quickly securely and reliably. You will be responsible for designing building and maintaining the groups cloud environments ensuring scalability stability and performance across a wide range of experimental and production workloads. Youll serve as the primary point of contact between the Research Group and other critical stakeholdersincluding Security Networking and Compliance teamsensuring that research projects align with organizational standards while still enabling rapid innovation.

Key Responsibilities

• Own and evolve the Research Groups cloud infrastructure and CI/CD pipelines to enable reproducible automated and scalable experimentation.

• Define and implement standards for infrastructure-as-code observability monitoring and resource optimization tailored to research use cases.

• Proactively collaborate with security and compliance teams to enforce best practices for data governance access controls and regulatory requirements.

• Partner with networking and platform engineers to integrate research workloads into the broader company ecosystem ensuring seamless operation.

• Serve as the primary technical liaison between the Research Group and stakeholders like Security Networking and Platform teams.

• Mentor engineers and researchers on DevOps best practices helping to instill a culture of operational excellence and applied learning.

Qualifications

Your Experience:

• 5 years of demonstrated experience in a DevOps Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) or cloud infrastructure role.

• Strong proficiency with infrastructure-as-code (IaC) tools such as Terraform or Ansible.

• Hands-on experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines using tools like Jenkins GitLab CI or GitHub Actions.

• In-depth knowledge of at least one major cloud provider (GCP AWS Azure).

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with containerization and orchestration technologies particularly Docker and Kubernetes.

• Proficiency in a scripting or programming language such as Python or Go.

• Familiarity with monitoring and observability tools like Prometheus Grafana or the ELK stack.

• Experience supporting machine learning or research-focused environments.

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