Senior DevOps Engineer

Piper Companies is seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer for a technology-driven financial services organization. The DevOps Engineer will focus on cloud infrastructure engineering, distributed systems reliability, system automation, and operational excellence across mission-critical platforms. The Senior DevOps engineer will design, automate, monitor, and support high-availability environments while improving system stability, security, and performance. This is a hybrid (3 days in office) full-time opportunity located in Raleigh, NC. This engineer must be able to maintain a security clearance if given the opportunity.

Responsibilities for the Senior DevOps Engineer include:

·      Manage and operate highly scalable, highly available distributed systems in cloud environments.

·      Automate infrastructure and application operations using infrastructure‑as‑code and configuration management tools.

·      Define key system metrics and ensure end‑to‑end observability for new and existing services.

·      Build monitoring, alerting, and resiliency mechanisms to maintain system performance and platform health.

·      Oversee deployments, upgrades, and configurations in secure pre‑production and production environments.

·      Validate service functionality and document test plans for deployment readiness, including automation when needed.

·      Perform routine system maintenance, troubleshoot operational issues, and resolve long‑ and short‑term system deficiencies.

·      Keep infrastructure secure through patching, vulnerability remediation, and proactive compliance management.

Qualifications for the Senior DevOps Engineer include:

·      6+ years of AWS experience across a wide range of cloud services, including EKS, EC2, etc.

·      Scripting experience with Python and familiarity with network security protocols.

·      Strong hands‑on experience with Kubernetes

·      Advanced proficiency with Terraform and Infrastructure‑as‑Code.

·      Proven experience managing AWS environments end‑to‑end in production settings.

·      Strong Linux administration experience (Windows experience beneficial).

·      Experience managing S3 storage, lifecycle policies, and operational practices.

·      Production experience with Postgres; SQL Server experience is a plus.

·      Exposure to ELK stack or similar logging/monitoring solutions.

Compensation for the Senior DevOps Engineer includes:

·      Salary range: $125,000 - $140,000

·      Comprehensive benefits package including Medical, Dental, Vision, 401k, PTO, holidays, and sick leave as required by law.

Keywords: AWS, Amazon web services, EKS, Kubernetes, docker, EC2, S3, VPC, CloudWatch, terraform, Infrastructure as code, IaC, Ansible, Jenkins, CI/CD, Git, Artifactory, HashiCorp, Chef, Puppet, distributed systems, scalability, resiliency, system monitoring, APM, SRE, postgres, SQL server, database administration, backup, database tuning, SQL, DNS, VPN, IDS/IPS, subnets, security group, network ACLs, WAF, SOC, python, bash, Newrelic, Dynatrace, splunk, ELK stack, SysDig, fortigate, firewalls, jira

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This job is open for applications on 2/13/2026 and will remain open for at least 30 days from the posting date.