Apply on Employer Site

SONIFI Solutions, Inc. · 2 weeks ago

Staff DevOps Engineer

Sioux Falls, SD

Full-time

Hybrid

Senior Level, Lead/Staff

$110K/yr - $150K/yr

6+ years exp

SONIFI Solutions, Inc. is seeking a Staff DevOps Engineer to drive the evolution of their DevOps capabilities. This role focuses on modernizing CI/CD, standardizing deployment patterns, and enabling reliable software delivery across a diverse portfolio of products in hybrid environments.

ContentHospitalitySoftware

No H1B

Responsibilities

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

Qualification

DevOpsCI/CDInfrastructure as CodeCloud ComputingLinuxGitLab CI/CDScriptingContainerizationMentoringDocumentation

Required

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

Identifies and provides recommendations for enhancing performance, assisting in implementation, and performing infrastructure cost analysis and optimization

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