Senior Staff Engineer, DevOps
About This Opportunity
We're seeking an experienced Senior Staff Engineer, DevOps to lead our cloud infrastructure and DevSecOps initiatives. In this strategic role, you'll shape the technical direction of our line of business, drive operational excellence, and mentor teams in modern cloud practices. You'll have the autonomy to influence critical technical decisions while working with a collaborative team in a primarily remote environment.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead technical and strategic initiatives for a line of business, developing cohesive approaches across all projects
- Identify and implement opportunities for optimization and efficiency gains across infrastructure and deployment pipelines
- Assess, design, and secure DevSecOps services and solutions on AWS cloud platforms
- Champion and evangelize best practices for your area of focus and technology stack across the organization
- Take ownership of critical technical decisions and guide their implementation with increasing scope and impact
- Design and provision infrastructure programmatically in AWS using Autoscaling Groups, Security Groups, Route53, S3, and IAM
- Enable data development teams to deliver new code daily through robust Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment pipelines
- Build and maintain scalable data infrastructure for end-to-end data factory platforms using Terraform and related Infrastructure-as-Code technologies
- Mentor junior engineers and foster a culture of technical excellence and continuous improvement
Required Qualifications
- Extensive experience with AWS cloud services and architecture
- Advanced proficiency with Terraform and Infrastructure-as-Code principles
- Strong expertise in CI/CD pipeline design and implementation
- Proven experience with Git version control and modern development workflows
- Deep understanding of DevSecOps practices and cloud security
- Demonstrated ability to lead technical initiatives and influence architectural decisions
- Experience managing complex infrastructure at scale
Preferred Skills & Experience
- Terraform CDK expertise
- TypeScript proficiency
- GitHub Actions implementation and optimization
- Jenkins pipeline development and management
- Experience with data infrastructure and data factory platforms
- Track record of mentoring and developing engineering teams
- Background in DevSecOps and cloud security best practices
What We're Looking For
You're a strategic thinker who combines deep technical expertise with strong leadership capabilities. You thrive in taking ownership of complex problems, architecting elegant solutions, and elevating the technical practices of your team. Your passion for automation, infrastructure excellence, and security drives you to continuously improve our systems and processes. You communicate effectively across technical and non-technical stakeholders and inspire others through your expertise and vision.
Additional Information
Contract Type: This position offers potential for extension or conversion to a permanent role based on performance and business needs.
Work Environment: Primarily remote with occasional in-person meetings at client's Irving, TX office.
CC Pace is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, or any other protected characteristic under federal, state, or local laws.
CC Pace are committed to employing only candidates who are legally authorized to work in the United States. For us to comply with the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986, all new employees, as a condition of employment, must complete the Employment Eligibility Verification Form I-9 and provide documentation that establishes identity and authorization to work. E-Verify will be used for employment verification as part of your onboarding process.
CC Pace values integrity throughout our hiring process. As part of our standard verification procedures, candidates will be asked to take a monitored skills assessment, and provide documentation confirming employment history, education, and work authorization.
