What are we looking for?

We are seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer to own and evolve MDClone’s deployment and delivery platform. In this role, you will improve release reliability, Kubernetes operations, and infrastructure automation across customer environments (including air-gapped deployments) and our internal engineering platforms. This is a hands-on senior role with strong technical ownership, cross-team influence, and operational leadership as needed.

Your key responsibilities will be:

• Architect, operate, and troubleshoot Kubernetes-based deployments across Rancher, OpenShift, and managed Kubernetes environments such as AKS, EKS, and GKE.
• Own infrastructure automation and environment provisioning using Infrastructure-as-Code, preferably Terraform.
• Build and improve CI/CD and release engineering, including artifact and version management, quality gates, repeatable deployments, and automation.
• Strengthen platform security through standardized controls and disciplined operational practices (secure distribution, credential rotation, least-privilege access, auditability).
• Drive operational excellence and service reliability through observability, incident response, incident reviews, and operational runbooks.
• Collaborate cross-functionally to remove deployment friction and enable successful go-lives across R&D, QA, Systems/IT, and Delivery teams.
• Participate in operational support and escalation handling, including time-sensitive debugging and recovery activities as needed.
• Provide technical mentorship and guidance across the team through design reviews, best practices, knowledge sharing, and raising engineering standards.

Professional Qualifications:

• 5+ years of experience in DevOps or Platform Engineering roles with production-grade ownership.
• Proven ability to design and deliver end-to-end deployment and operational solutions (architecture, standards, and execution).
• Strong Kubernetes experience in production (cluster operations, networking, storage, workload lifecycle).
• Experience operating Kubernetes in production across multiple distributions and managed services (e.g., Rancher, OpenShift, AKS/EKS/GKE).
• Hands-on experience with Infrastructure-as-Code and environment automation, preferably Terraform.
• Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines and release automation, including artifact and version management, quality gates, and repeatable deployments.
• Strong Linux expertise and solid networking fundamentals, including troubleshooting, performance, and security.
• Strong automation skills, including Python and shell scripting.
• Experience with configuration management (Ansible or equivalent).
• Experience building and operating observability stacks for production environments, including ECK / Elastic Stack.
• Strong proficiency with Git and modern branching and merging workflows(pull/merge requests, conflict resolution, rebasing/merging, tags/releases).
• Excellent written and spoken English is required for collaboration with global teams and customers.

Advantages:

• Experience with constrained or regulated environments, including air-gapped deployments, healthcare, federal environments, and FIPS-aligned security controls.
• Experience with open lakehouse architectures, including Trino, Iceberg, and object storage.
• Multi-cloud experience across AWS, Azure, and GCP.

Personal Skills:

• Proven ability to work well with others in a fast-paced, iterative development environment.
• Strong ownership mindset and pragmatic problem-solving approach.
• Excellent troubleshooting skills; calm under pressure.
• Fast learner with a drive to continuously improve systems through automation and standardization.
• Outside-of-the-box thinker