Senior DevOps Engineer
Senior DevOps Engineer at DigiCert, a digital-trust/PKI security company, driving infrastructure automation, monitoring, and reliability for its platform. Day-to-day work centers on Linux system administration, AWS, Terraform/Ansible/Packer automation, observability, and networking (BGP/DNS), with on-call rotation and mentoring duties.
- Compensation
- $150K–$160K / yr
- Location
- United States - Remote
- Work setup
- Remote
- Seniority
- Senior
- Employment
- Not specified
- Experience
- Not specified
- Category
- Devops
- Posted
Skills
Must have
- Strong Linux systems administration background, incl. how Linux interacts with CPU, memory, disk, networking
- Advanced proficiency in scripting/automation with Ansible, Bash, Python, Packer, Terraform
- Hands-on experience with AWS services (EC2, IAM, VPC) and provisioning tools like Terraform and Packer
- Experience with datacenter operations including racking, stacking, and remote system management
- Proven ability to manage/configure systems at scale with zero-touch provisioning
- Experience managing monitoring systems and developing custom dashboards for observability
- Solid understanding of networking within a Linux environment (Router -> Switch -> Server -> Virtualization -> Linux -> Service)
- Passion for operational excellence, security, and performance
- Ability to self-manage, communicate effectively, and collaborate with diverse technical teams
- Willingness and ability to learn new technologies as required
Nice to have
- BGP and DNS experience
- Experience with Kentik, Splunk, or similar network visibility/observability platforms
- Familiarity with modern CI/CD tools and pipeline architecture
- Willingness and ability to learn new languages as required
- Experience designing, developing, and maintaining RESTful APIs
- Understanding of release management processes in large-scale environments
Full description
Who we are
DigiCert is a global leader in intelligent trust. We protect the digital world by ensuring the security, privacy, and authenticity of every interaction. Our AI-powered DigiCert ONE platform unifies PKI, DNS, and certificate lifecycle management, to secure infrastructure, software, devices, messages, AI content and agents. Learn why more than 100,000 organizations, including 90% of the Fortune 500, choose DigiCert to stop today’s threats and prepare for a quantum-safe future at
Job summary
We are seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer who will play a role in updating the state of our infrastructure, automation, and operational excellence. This role requires a deep understanding of systems, networking, monitoring, and security, with a strong bias toward automation, reliability and scale. The ideal candidate will be a technical leader, helping to shape the direction of infrastructure and tooling.
What you will do
- Implementation of infrastructure automation, monitoring, and system reliability practices committed to providing 100% service availability.
- Able to perform forensic system administration, troubleshooting unfamiliar Linux systems and services.
- Demonstrates a SecOps mindset with a focus on secure automation and hardened Linux system administration.
- Champion the use and advancement of DevOps best practices including CI/CD, infrastructure as code, and zero-touch provisioning.
- Utilize best practices in release management, incident management, capacity planning, and operational readiness.
- Instrumentation of services with visualization to speed triage (lower MTTR) allowing no direct access to systems.
- Exerts technical influence horizontally—up and laterally to fellow seniors, and down to the team.
- Acts as a mentor to DevOps and engineering team members; share knowledge and foster a culture of learning and continuous improvement.
- Proactively identify and implement opportunities to increase system resiliency.
- Implement technical direction around infrastructure, cloud, networking (BGP), and automation strategy.
- Participate in on-call rotation, demonstrating strong customer empathy and responsiveness to incidents.
- Own and improve standard operating procedures and system documentation.
- Research, prototype, and implement new technologies across cloud, virtualization, and hardware platforms.
What you will have
- Strong Linux systems administration background with a deep understanding of how Linux interacts with hardware (CPU, memory, disk, networking).