Senior DevOps Engineer
Gluware · (US)
About Gluware
Gluware is the intelligent network automation industry leader, powering self-operating enterprise networking for Global 2000 companies across finance, healthcare, pharma, energy, and more. Our platform helps the world's largest enterprises prevent critical network outages, maintain compliance, and keep pace with ever-changing business requirements — through a multi-vendor, multi-platform, intent-based approach that requires no custom scripting.
Our solutions span the full network automation lifecycle: Discovery & Inventory, OS Manager, Config Model Editor, Config Drift & Audit, Network RPA, Topology, Workflows, and more — all backed by DIAL™ (our Device Interaction and Automation Layer). We're also actively building Gluware.ai
and Gluware Titan, bringing AI natively into network automation workflows.
We offer a competitive salary and benefits package, real growth opportunities, and a team that genuinely enjoys the work. Gluware is headquartered in Sacramento CA but our workforce is predominantly remote. This role is open to applicants across the United States. Come help us push enterprise networking forward.
Role Summary
As a Senior DevOps Engineer and member of the DevOps team, you will own the infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, release process, and multi-cloud operations that keep Gluware’s platform reliable and scalable for Global 2000 customers. You will partner closely with Engineering, QA, and Product to drive automation-first practices across cloud and datacenter environments, while championing security, observability, and developer experience across the organization.
Core Responsibilities
Infrastructure & Cloud Operations
Own design, provisioning, and day-to-day operations of multi-cloud infrastructure (AWS primary, Azure secondary) using IaC tools — Terraform and/or CloudFormation
Manage VPC architecture, multi-region deployments, peering, and disaster recovery automation
Maintain and evolve container orchestration (Kubernetes / EKS) and container image pipelines
Drive cloud cost optimization, capacity planning, and right-sizing initiatives
CI/CD & Release Engineering
Own and continuously improve the end-to-end CI/CD pipeline (Jenkins or equivalent)
Own and optimize release automation across dev, integration, staging, and production environments
Champion GitOps practices and automated deployment strategies (blue/green, canary)
Manage artifact repositories (Artifactory) and dependency scanning
Platform Reliability & Observability
Establish and maintain SLOs/SLAs; lead incident response, blameless post-mortems, and reliability improvements
Build and manage observability stack: metrics (Prometheus/Grafana or Datadog), logging (ELK/OpenSearch), and distributed tracing
Evolve on-call processes and runbooks to reduce MTTR
Security & Compliance
Assess and address vulnerabilities and integrate security tooling into pipelines (SAST, DAST, container scanning, secrets management via Vault or AWS Secrets Manager)
Maintain SOC 2 compliance posture; participate in audits and evidence collection
Manage access controls (LDAP and RBAC) across build tooling
Maintain source code escrow
Developer Enablement
Maintain and improve internal developer tooling, local dev environments, and self-service infrastructure capabilities
Collaborate with Engineering to define and enforce platform standards and best practices
Document architecture decisions and runbooks
Required Qualifications
5+ years of DevOps, SRE, or Platform Engineering experience in a product company
Extensive experience with configuration management (Ansible or Chef preferred
Deep hands-on AWS experience (EC2, EKS/ECS, RDS, S3, Lambda, CloudFormation, VPC, Route 53, IAM); Azure a plus
Strong IaC skills with Terraform (preferred) or Pulumi, CloudFormation, and packer
Solid CI/CD pipeline experience —Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab or equivalent; trunk-based development and deployment automation
Proficiency in at least one scripting/automation language: Typescript, Python, Bash, Ruby, or Go
Proficient with build management using nx + pnpm, maven, gradle
Hands-on container platform experience: Docker, Kubernetes (EKS or self-managed)
Strong Linux system administration and shell scripting skills
Solid networking fundamentals (DNS, load balancing, VPNs, VPC peering, security groups, firewalls)
Experience operating and improving observability stacks in production environments
Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Technology, or equivalent hands-on experience
Nice To Have
GitOps tooling familiarity (ArgoCD, Flux)
Experience with bazel
Experience with service mesh (Istio, Linkerd) or API gateway patterns
Knowledge of networking vendor ecosystems (Cisco, Juniper, Arista) — Gluware orchestrates these environments
Hands-on experience with AI/ML infrastructure or LLM-assisted DevOps workflows
AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Professional, CKA/CKAD, or equivalent certification
Familiarity with Java, JavaScript, and Node.js (the languages our product is built on)
Experience in a compliance-regulated SaaS environment (SOC 2, ISO 27001, or FedRAMP)
Experience
What We Offer
Competitive salary and comprehensive benefits
Meaningful equity — join a high-growth company at a compelling inflection point
Remote-friendly culture with a collaborative, low-ego engineering team
Real ownership: you will shape infrastructure decisions, not just execute tickets
The chance to work at the intersection of enterprise networking and cutting-edge AI automation
Interested? Please apply online at www.gluware.com/jobs
Gluware is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.