DevOps Engineer

My name is Sudher Vurakaranam, and I represent Synchrony Systems Inc. We are currently supporting an implementation partner on a full-time opportunity. Based on your background, your experience may align well with this role.

Position Details:

Role:	Devops Engineer
Locations:	Irving, TX
Employment Type:	Full-Time (W2 only)
Work Model:	5days a week onsite
Compensation: Base salary range of	$110,000-$140,000 per year, plus benefits
Experience Range	Min 8+ Years and Max 25 Years
Work Authorization	Who can work on a full-time W2 basis without sponsorship

Note:

• This role is not open for C2C/C2H/1099 or any contract arrangements
• This opportunity is available for candidates who can work on a full-time W2 basis without sponsorship.

Job Description

Must Have Technical/Functional Skills:

We are seeking a highly skilled Senior DevOps Engineer with deep, hands-on expertise in building and operating enterprise-grade CI/CD platforms, cloud infrastructure, and developer tooling at global scale. In this role, you will own the design, automation, and reliability of the software delivery pipeline - enabling engineering squads to ship faster, safer, and with greater confidence. You will bring a strong platform engineering mindset, infrastructure-as-code discipline, and a proven track record of reducing toil, improving system resilience, and embedding security into every stage of the software lifecycle in a regulated financial services environment.

Roles & Responsibilities:

Own the CI/CD Platform Design, build, and continuously improve enterprise CI/CD pipelines. Ensure pipelines are fast, reliable, secure, and scalable across dozens of engineering squads and technology stacks.

Architect & Manage Cloud Infrastructure Provision, manage, and optimize cloud infrastructure across AWS, Azure, and GCP using infrastructure-as-code. Enforce cost controls, security guardrails, and operational best practices at scale.

Drive Platform Reliability & SRE Practices Define and own SLOs, SLIs, and error budgets for platform services. Lead incident response, conduct blameless post-mortems, and implement systemic fixes to eliminate recurring failures.

Embed Security into the Delivery Pipeline Implement DevSecOps practices - integrating SAST, DAST, SCA, container scanning, and secrets detection into every pipeline stage. Ensure compliance with enterprise security standards and regulatory requirements.

Standardize Container & Kubernetes Operations Own the Kubernetes and OpenShift platform strategy - cluster lifecycle management, namespace governance, RBAC, networking policies, and workload autoscaling.

Enable Developer Productivity Build internal developer platforms (IDP), self-service tooling, golden path templates, and reusable infrastructure components that reduce friction and accelerate engineering teams.

Lead Observability & Capacity Planning Design and maintain a unified observability stack covering metrics, logging, and distributed tracing. Drive proactive capacity planning and performance optimization across all environments.

Champion Infrastructure as Code & GitOps Establish IaC standards across the organization. Drive GitOps adoption for all infrastructure and application configuration changes, ensuring auditability and repeatability.

Mentor & Lead Technical Direction Define DevOps standards, conduct platform design reviews, mentor junior engineers, and collaborate with architects, security teams, and engineering leads to align platform strategy with business goals.

Technical Skills Required

CI/CD & Build Systems

Jenkins

GitHub Actions

GitLab CI

ArgoCD

Tekton

CircleCI

Maven / Gradle / npm build integration

Pipeline-as-Code

Artifact Management

Release Automation & Versioning Strategies

Container & Kubernetes Platforms

Docker

Kubernetes

OpenShift

Helm

Kustomize

Operators & Custom Resource Definitions (CRDs)

Kubernetes RBAC & Network Policies

Pod Security Standards

Cluster Lifecycle Management

Service Mesh (Istio, Linkerd)

Cloud Platforms & Infrastructure

AWS (EC2, ECS, EKS, Lambda, RDS, S3, VPC, IAM, SQS, SNS, Route53)

GCP (GKE, Cloud Run, IAM, VPC)

Multi-cloud & Hybrid Cloud Architecture

Cloud Networking (VPC, peering, transit gateway, private endpoints)

Cloud Cost Optimization & FinOps

Infrastructure as Code & GitOps

Terraform

Ansible

Pulumi

CloudFormation

ArgoCD / Flux (GitOps)

Crossplane

Packer

Terragrunt

Observability & Monitoring

Prometheus

Grafana

OpenTelemetry

ELK Stack

Loki / Fluentd / Fluentbit

Jaeger / Zipkin (Distributed Tracing)

Datadog / Dynatrace / New Relic

PagerDuty / Alertmanager

SLO / SLI / Error Budget Management

Google Cloud Observability

Storage

S3

NAS

EFS

EBS

DevSecOps & Security

SAST Tools (Checkmarx, SonarQube)

DAST Tools (OWASP ZAP, Burp Suite)

SCA / Dependency Scanning

Container Image Scanning (Trivy, Aqua Security, Twistlock)

Secrets Scanning

HashiCorp Vault

AWS Secrets Manager / Azure Key Vault

mTLS & Certificate Management

RBAC & Identity-Aware Proxy

CIS Benchmarks & STIG Compliance

Networking & Service Delivery

DNS & Load Balancing (Nginx, HAProxy, AWS ALB/NLB)

API Gateway (Kong, AWS API Gateway, Apigee)

CDN (Cloudflare, AWS CloudFront)

Ingress Controllers (Nginx Ingress, Traefik)

VPN & Private Connectivity (AWS Direct Connect, Azure ExpressRoute)

Zero Trust Networking

Scripting & Automation

Bash / Shell Scripting

Python (automation, tooling, Lambda functions)

Go (CLI tooling, Kubernetes controllers)

PowerShell

Makefile / Task runners

Reliability & SRE Practices

Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) Principles

Chaos Engineering (Chaos Monkey, LitmusChaos, Gremlin)

Disaster Recovery & Business Continuity Planning

Runbook Automation

Incident Management (PagerDuty, OpsGenie)

Capacity Planning & Performance Tuning

Blue-Green & Canary Deployment Strategies

Feature Flag Management

Developer Platform & Productivity

Internal Developer Platforms (Backstage, Port)

Golden Path Templates & Scaffolding

Self-Service Infrastructure Provisioning

Developer Experience (DX) tooling

Pre-commit hooks & code quality gates

TCS Employee Benefits Summary:

Discretionary Annual Incentive.

Comprehensive Medical Coverage: Medical & Health, Dental & Vision, Disability Planning & Insurance, Pet Insurance Plans.

Family Support: Maternal & Parental Leaves.

Insurance Options: Auto & Home Insurance, Identity Theft Protection.

Convenience & Professional Growth: Commuter Benefits & Certification & Training Reimbursement.

Time Off: Vacation, Time Off, Sick Leave & Holidays.

Legal & Financial Assistance: Legal Assistance, 401K Plan, Performance Bonus, College Fund, Student Loan Refinancing.

If you are interested in learning more, please reply with your updated resume and preferred time for a brief discussion. If this opportunity is not a match, feel free to disregard this message.

Thank you for your time and consideration.

Best Regards,

Sudher Vurakaranam

Desk: 609-666-0035( Ext:3280)

Email: sudher.v@synchronycorp.com

Synchrony Systems Inc, 3 Ethel Rd Ste 313, Edison NJ 08817.

SYNCHRONY CORP

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