Staff DevOps Engineer Job at SONIFI Health (Sioux Falls)

Job Description

We are hiring a Staff DevOps Engineer to help evolve our DevOps capabilities into a scalable, secure, and developer-friendly platform. This role is central to modernizing CI/CD, standardizing deployment patterns, and enabling reliable software delivery across a diverse portfolio of products and hybrid environments. This is a hands-on technical leadership role. You will design and build shared DevOps capabilities, influence standards across teams, and partner closely with Engineering, Security, and Operations to drive an incremental, execution-focused DevOps transformation that balances legacy constraints with modern best practices.

Job Responsibility

Design, build, and evolve a shared DevOps platform, treating CI/CD, runners, and automation as basic services
Own and advance our GitLab CI/CD ecosystem, including group-level pipelines, reusable templates, runner strategy, and execution environments
Establish standardized CI/CD patterns that improve reliability, security, and developer experience while allowing flexibility where needed
Design, provision, and operate cloud infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code (e.g., CloudFormation)
Automate operational workflows to reduce manual effort, operational friction, and deployment risk
Design secure networking and infrastructure patterns aligned with industry best practices
Identify opportunities for performance improvements, scalability, and cost optimization improvements
Integrate automated quality and security checks into CI/CD pipelines to enable consistent enforcement of standards
Partner with Security to deliver secure-by-default pipelines with minimal developer friction
Ensure pipelines and deployed systems are observable through logs, metrics, alerts, and deployment health signals
Act as an escalation point for complex issues across systems, networks, and infrastructure across hybrid and AWS cloud environments
Serve as a Staff-level technical leader, influencing DevOps standards and architectural direction across teams without direct authority
Partner with Engineering Managers, Architects, and Operations to evolve DevOps practices incrementally
Lead adoption of standardized DevOps practices across legacy and modern services without disrupting customers
Create documentation, reference implementations, and enablement materials to support adoption
Mentor engineers and help raise overall DevOps maturity across the organization

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in computer science / software engineering or equivalent degree and 6+ years of experience in DevOps, Platform Engineering, with demonstrated impact at scale
Advanced knowledge of Linux and/or cloud computing platforms (AWS preferred) is required
Hands-on experience designing and operating CI/CD platforms at scale, preferably with GitLab CI/CD
Strong experience with Infrastructure as Code and automated environment provisioning
Proficiency in scripting and automation (Python, Go, and/or Shell required)
Experience with containerization (Docker) and orchestration platforms (ECS, EKS or Kubernetes)
Proven ability to design, analyze, and troubleshoot large-scale, distributed systems

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