Senior DevOps Specialist

Responsibilities: Help shape and operate infrastructure and deployment systems

Contribute to the design, build, and maintenance of the cloud infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, and deployment tooling that engineering teams rely on every day

Drive reliability and observability

Implement monitoring, alerting, and incident response practices that keep systems healthy and surface issues before customers feel them

Champion security and compliance

Partner with security and compliance teammates to ensure infrastructure aligns with VIA's security obligations (e.g., CJIS, CMMC, and SOC 2), embedding security controls into automated pipelines rather than bolting them on

Partner across the engineering organization

Work closely with engineering leadership, Client Delivery Leads, and product teams to ensure infrastructure work is properly prioritized and accounted for during project planning and resource allocation

Partner with the team to identify and implement AI tools and agents

Identify and implement AI tools and agents to eliminate manual bottlenecks across the DevOps lifecycle, including automated remediation, log anomaly detection, infrastructure-as-code generation and review, and compliance evidence collection

Qualifications: What you will bring to this role:

Bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science, engineering, information systems, or a related degree

5+ years of experience in a DevOps, SRE, or infrastructure engineering role, with demonstrated success in a high-growth technical environment

Deep technical understanding of IT infrastructure integration, Unix/Linux, (e.g., DNS, storage systems, firewalls, etc.), TCP/UDP/IP behavior, and application data flows between systems - a must have

High proficiency in application deployment (e.g., Kubernetes, IaC e.g. Terraform, Docker), configuration and monitoring (e.g., System logs, Kibana, Grafana, etc.)

In-depth experience with AWS; Azure, or GCP cloud service providers a bonus

Experience managing network infrastructure, protocols, troubleshooting, and security (e.g., firewalls, security groups, OS/container hardening, PEN testing)

Experience adhering to the standards of compliance frameworks (e.g. CJIS, CMMC, SOC2)

Proficiency in Python and shell script languages

Proven ability to independently manage priorities and plan effectively across multiple upcoming development cycles (sprints), anticipating future dependencies and resource needs

Proven track record building strong stakeholder relationships, with excellent interpersonal and presentation skills to effectively communicate and influence

Experience or interest in the following skills is also a plus:

Deployment of blockchain nodes (e.g., experience with configuration of Ethereum miners)

Application orchestration

Service mesh technology (e.g., Istio)

Managing IoT devices as part of an Operational Technology system