Senior DevOps Engineer

Job Summary

Westfield is seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer to help modernize and secure our software delivery platforms. In this hands-on role, you'll work at the intersection of development, infrastructure, and security. This includes advancing automation, streamlining CI/CD pipelines, and strengthening platform reliability. You'll partner closely with cross-functional teams to embed security into every phase of the delivery process, while driving adoption of DevOps best practices across the enterprise.

Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis without employer sponsorship.

Job Responsibilities

• Lead the implementation and continuous improvement of our DevOps toolchain, focusing on automation, scalability, and security integration.
• Work directly with development teams to promote DevOps principles, optimizing workflows, enabling shift-left practices, and reducing friction in day-to-day engineering.
• Design, build, and maintain CI/CD pipelines using infrastructure-as-code and pipeline-as-code. (e.g. Azure DevOps, Kubernetes YAML, and Terraform)
• Help manage and scale containerized workloads on Kubernetes/OpenShift clusters.
• Integrate quality and security checks into the development lifecycle using tools like SonarQube, Snyk, etc.
• Explore, evaluate and implement advancements to our DevOps practice. (e.g. New cloud deployment patterns, internal developer platform, GenAI development practices and safeguards)
• Provide thought leadership in advancing the organization's DevOps strategy, alignment with business goals and technology trends.
• Advance branching and code merge strategies that enable frequent,
• Streamline the development and deployment platforms and processes, ensuring efficient collaboration between development, infrastructure and other stakeholders.
• Ensure synergies between software development and IT operations through automation, Continuous Integration / Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) pipelines and infrastructure management standards and best practices.
  

Job Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in a DevOps, infrastructure, or application engineering role, with hands-on implementation of modern DevOps practices.
• Comfortable working in cross-functional teams and coaching developers on DevOps practices.
• Demonstrated proficiency with containerization and orchestration technologies (e.g., Docker and Kubernetes/OpenShift).
• Experience designing or maintaining CI/CD pipelines using pipeline-as
• Solid understanding of good version control best practices (e.g., Git workflows, branching strategies).
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, a related field or equivalent practical experience.
• Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis.

Additional Qualifications

• Experience with Azure DevOps, OpenShift, and JIRA in a production environment.
• Exposure to DevSecOps tooling such as SonarQube, Snyk, GitHub Copilot, or similar.
• Familiarity with infrastructure-as-code tools and principles (e.g., Terraform, Helm).

Location

Hybrid defined as three (3) or more days in the office per week.

Behavioral Competencies

• Collaborates
• Communicates Effectively
• Customer Focus
• Decision Quality
• Nimble Learning
• Problem Solving
• Manages Complexity
• Directs Work
• Ensures Accountability
  

Technical Skills

• IT Troubleshooting
• CI/CD Pipelines and Tools (e.g. GitHub, Azure DevOps, Artifactory)
• DevOps Principles and Release Methodologies (e.g. Canary, Feature Toggles)
• Agile Methodologies
• Software Development Lifecycle
• Operating Systems
• Technical Documentation
• Automated Testing
• Programming and Scripting languages (e.g. Bash, Python)
• Cloud Platforms / Hybrid Deployment Models
• Infrastructure As Code (IaC) Tools and Methodologies (e.g. Ansible, Puppet, Chef)
• Version Control Repository Tools and Methodologies (e.g. Git, AzureDevOps)
• Build / Deployment Systems and Methodologies (e.g. UrbanCode, Octopus)
• Dependency Management (e.g. ProGet, Artifactory)
• Containerization and Orchestration (e.g. Docker, Kubernetes)
• Code Quality / Security tools (e.g. SonarCube, AppScan)

This job description describes the general nature and level of work performed in this role. It is not intended to be an exhaustive list of all duties, skills, responsibilities, knowledge, etc. These may be subject to change and additional functions may be assigned as needed by management.