Staff DevOps Engineer, IaC

This position is listed on behalf of a partner company, who manages all applications and next steps. Our partner is looking for a Staff DevOps Engineer, IaC based in United States.

This senior DevOps role owns the path from code commit to safe, reliable production deployment across a large-scale cloud environment.
You will lead the strategy and architecture for CI/CD, deployment automation, and Infrastructure as Code, with Terraform at the center of the platform.
The role combines hands-on engineering with organization-wide technical leadership, establishing standards that enable teams to ship quickly and confidently.
You will design scalable, cloud-agnostic infrastructure patterns across AWS and expanding Azure or GCP environments.
Your work will improve deployment reliability, security, observability, cost awareness, and engineering velocity across multiple teams and regions.
You will also drive IaC adoption, mentor engineers, and partner closely with Development, QA, Security, and IT.
This is a high-ownership opportunity for an experienced engineer who wants to shape release engineering and infrastructure strategy at enterprise scale.

Accountabilities:
- Own and continuously improve CD and release pipelines, including artifact promotion, environment progression, progressive delivery, automated health checks, deployment gates, rollback, scheduling, feature-flagged releases, and coordinated multi-service deployments.

- Serve as the technical authority for Terraform architecture, including reusable modules, remote state, backends and locking, workspace and organization strategies, provider management, versioning, RBAC, secrets management, and scalable access patterns.

- Define cloud-agnostic infrastructure architecture and reusable module libraries that support AWS today while enabling future Azure and GCP environments.

- Establish infrastructure governance and guardrails through policy-as-code and automated security, compliance, and cost controls using technologies such as Sentinel, OPA, Checkov, and Infracost.

- Drive organization-wide adoption of Terraform by migrating existing infrastructure, developing golden-path templates and documentation, and enabling engineering teams to safely manage their own IaC.

- Design, develop, and deploy secure and compliant AWS infrastructure through Terraform while shaping patterns that can extend across multiple cloud providers.

- Monitor deployment pipelines, Terraform activity, infrastructure health, alerts, and metrics, serving as a technical escalation point for production incidents and after-hours support when required.

- Own incident response, rollback, remediation, and technical decisions related to deployment and infrastructure issues.

- Partner with engineering, QA, security, IT, and other technical teams to improve release processes, infrastructure standards, reliability, and operational efficiency.

- Mentor engineers on release engineering, deployment safety, Terraform best practices, infrastructure design, and IaC code quality.

Requirements:

- 10+ years of cloud DevOps experience, primarily focused on AWS, with significant expertise in release engineering, deployment automation, and Infrastructure as Code.

- Proven production experience across multiple cloud platforms, including AWS plus hands-on experience with Azure and/or GCP.

- 4+ years of production-grade Terraform experience, including module development, remote state management, workspaces, provider versioning, and safe plan/apply workflows through CI/CD.

- Deep expertise in continuous delivery rather than CI alone, including progressive deployment strategies, automated rollback, release orchestration, and infrastructure provisioning.

- Enterprise-scale Terraform architecture experience covering state management, module registries, versioning, governance policies, and multi-team access control.

- Demonstrated experience designing and operating cloud-agnostic IaC architectures in production.

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