Senior Engineer DevOps, Onsite

Bass Pro Shops is seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer to join our platform engineering team. This is a high-ownership high-impact role at the center of how we build ship and operate software at scale. You will be responsible for managing and continuously improving software delivery across hundreds of CI/CD pipelines operating a multi-regional Azure Kubernetes footprint and ensuring our platform is secure observable and resilient.

Youll work across the full spectrum of platform engineering from pipeline security scanning and GitOps delivery to distributed data infrastructure and global traffic management. If you want to own a platform that touches everything and has real engineering depth this is the role.

This role is required to be onsite in Springfield Missouri.

Responsibilities

Software Delivery & Pipelines

• Own and maintain hundreds ofGitHub ActionsCI/CD pipelines across multiple teams and repositories
• Integrate and managesecurity scanning tooling(SAST container image scanning dependency scanning secrets detection) across the full pipeline estate; enforce scan gates and triage findings at scale
• Implement and maintainGitOpsworkflows usingFluxCDand/orArgoCD; manage fleet-level configuration drift reconciliation and progressive delivery
• Package and version applications usingHelm charts; maintain internal chart libraries and manage release workflows
• Drive improvements in build performance deployment strategies (blue/green canary rolling) and rollback capabilities

Infrastructure & Kubernetes

• Manage and operateAzure Kubernetes Service (AKS)clusters across environments including cluster lifecycle RBAC network policies autoscaling and workload placement
• Author and maintainInfrastructure as CodeusingTerraform modules covering Azure networking (VNets subnets NSGs private endpoints peering) compute storage AKS and managed services
• Manage container image build pipelinesAzure Container Registry (ACR) base image governance and automated vulnerability scanning
• Manage secrets and sensitive configuration throughAzure Key Vault; enforce least-privilege access across pipelines and services

Multi-Regional & Traffic Management

• Architect and operatemulti-regional Azure footprintsincluding cross-region failover geo-replication and latency-aware traffic design
• Configure and manageAkamaiedge policies CDN WAF DDoS mitigation TLS offload and API Gateway rules
• Implement and maintainAzure Traffic Manager for DNS-level global load balancing health probing and regional failover

Distributed Systems

• Design and operateApache Kafkainfrastructure broker configuration topic and partition management consumer group tuning schema governance and multi-cluster replication
• ManageMongoDBdeployments (replica sets sharding backup/restore strategies) on Kubernetes and/or Azure-managed equivalents
• SupportRedisdeployments clustering eviction policies persistence and high availability configuration

Observability & Security

• Build and maintain observability pipelines using theElastic StackandOpenTelemetry log aggregation distributed tracing and metrics from infrastructure through application layers
• Support and enforce security and compliance postures aligned withPCI DSSandCIS Benchmarkstandards at the infrastructure Kubernetes and pipeline layers
• Participate in on-call rotations and incident response; conduct post-mortems and drive reliability improvements

Required Qualifications

• 58 years of experience in a DevOps platform engineering or site reliability role
• Proven experience managing and securingCI/CD pipelines at scale(100 pipelines) usingGitHub Actions including integration of security scanning tools (Trivy Dependabot or equivalent)
• Deep hands-on experience withAKSand Kubernetes RBAC network policies resource management cluster upgrades and multi-environment operations
• StrongTerraformskills module authoring state management workspace strategy and Azure resource coverage
• Production experience withFluxCDorArgoCDin a GitOps delivery model
• Proficiency withHelm authoring charts managing dependencies and release workflows
• Solid understanding ofAzure networking VNets NSGs route tables private endpoints DNS and peering
• Experience withAzure Key Vaultand secrets management patterns across pipelines and workloads
• Hands-on experience withElastic StackandOpenTelemetryfor observability
• Proficiency inLinuxadministration and scripting BashShell andPython
• Working knowledge ofPCI DSSandCIS Benchmarkhardening standards applied to cloud and container environments
• Experience withmulti-regional Azure architecturesand global traffic routing patterns
• Hands-on experience withApache KafkaMongoDB andRedisin production environments

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience withAkamaiedge platform property configuration WAF policies and API Gateway
• Experience withAzure Traffic Managerand/orAzure Front Doorfor global load balancing and failover
• Familiarity with Azure Policy Microsoft Defender for Cloud or cloud security posture management tooling
• Experience with service mesh technologies (Istio Linkerd)
• Kafka multi-cluster replication and consumer lag monitoring at scale
• Azure certifications (AZ-104 AZ-400 CKA/CKAD)

PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS:

Regularly sit and do computer work.

Occasionally walks and stands.

Seldom/Never lifts up to 50 lbs.

INDEPENDENT JUDGEMENT:

Performs duties within scope of general company policies procedures and objectives. Analyzes problems and performs needs assessments. Uses judgment in adapting broad guidelines to achieve desired result. Regular exercise of independent judgment within accepted practices. Makes recommendations that affect policies procedures and practices.

Full Time Benefits Summary:
Enjoy discounts on retail merchandise our restaurants world-class resorts and conservation attractions!

• Medical
• Dental
• Vision
• Health Savings Account
• Flexible Spending Account
• Voluntary benefits
• 401k Retirement Savings
• Paid holidays
• Paid vacation
• Paid sick time
• Bass Pro Cares Fund
• And more!

Bass Pro Shops is an equal opportunity employer. Hiring decisions are administered without regard to race color creed religion sex pregnancy sexual orientation gender identity age national origin ancestry citizenship status disability veteran status genetic information or any other basis protected by applicable federal state or local law.

Reasonable Accommodations

Qualified individuals with known disabilities may be entitled to reasonable accommodation under the Americans with Disabilities Act and certain state or local laws.
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