Senior DevOps Engineer

Why Ryan

• Hybrid Work Options

• Award-Winning Culture

• Generous Personal Time Off (PTO) Benefits

• 14-Weeks of 100% Paid Leave for New Parents (Adoption Included)

• Monthly Gym Membership Reimbursement OR Gym Equipment Reimbursement

• Benefits Eligibility Effective Day One

• 401K with Employer Match

• Tuition Reimbursement After One Year of Service

• Fertility Assistance Program

• Four-Week Company-Paid Sabbatical Eligibility After Five Years of Service

Ryan an award-winning global tax services and software provider is the largest Firm in the world dedicated exclusively to business taxes. The Firm provides an integrated suite of federal state local and international tax services on a multijurisdictional basis including tax recovery consulting advocacy compliance and technology services. At Ryan we liberate our clients from the burden of being overtaxed freeing their capital to invest grow and thrive. Join Ryans multidisciplinary team of more than 2800 professionals and associates serving over 16000 clients in more than 50 countries and help us solve tax issues for many of the worlds most prominent Global 5000 companies.

Duties and responsibilities

• Design implement and maintain fully automated CI/CD pipelines for and applications.
• Build standardized deployment workflows across AWS and/or Azure environments.
• Implement automated testing security scanning and quality gates within pipelines.
• Establish reusable pipeline templates and shared libraries to enforce best practices.
• Optimize build and deployment performance reliability and observability.

• Architect and implement an Internal Developer Portal to provide self-service infrastructure application templates and deployment workflows.
• Enable golden paths for engineering teams to accelerate onboarding and reduce cognitive load.
• Integrate IDP with CI/CD systems cloud infrastructure identity management and observability platforms.
• Maintain service catalogs documentation standards and ownership metadata.
• Continuously improve developer experience through feedback and platform enhancements.

• Design and manage cloud infrastructure in AWS and/or Azure using Infrastructure as Code (Terraform required).
• Build reusable Terraform modules and enforce governance through policy-as-code.
• Implement secure scalable networking and cloud-native architecture patterns.
• Ensure high availability scalability and disaster recovery readiness.

• Champion DevOps culture: automation-first mindset continuous improvement collaboration and transparency.
• Implement monitoring logging and alerting strategies for both infrastructure and applications.
• Integrate DevSecOps practices including vulnerability scanning and secrets management.
• Partner with development teams to improve reliability performance and deployment practices.
• Lead Proof-of-Concept (PoC) initiatives to evaluate and introduce new tools platforms and automation processes.

• 10 years of progressive experience in software engineering DevOps cloud engineering or platform engineering.
• Demonstrated evolution from software development into cloud infrastructure and automation.
• 6 years of hands-on experience with CI/CD tools (e.g. Harness CloudBees Jenkins) and modern software delivery practices.
• Deep development expertise in Java and/or application environments.
• Strong hands-on experience in AWS and/or Azure including networking serverless and other managed cloud infrastructure.
• Advanced proficiency with Terraform and Infrastructure as Code principles.
• Experience designing scalable cloud-native architectures.
• Experience leading technical evaluations and Proof-of-Concept (PoC) initiatives for new tools and processes.
• Strong understanding of secure software delivery git branching strategies and DevSecOps practices.
• Experience with containerization (Docker) and orchestration (Kubernetes preferred).
• Strong scripting skills (Bash Python or similar).
• Excellent collaboration skills with the ability to work cross-functionally across engineering security and operations teams.
• Clear transparent communication style with a bias toward documentation and shared ownership.

• Experience building or implementing a commercial Internal Developer Portal (e.g. Harness IDP Port or similar).
• Experience implementing platform engineering concepts and developer self-service models.
• Familiarity with service mesh API gateways or cloud-native networking.
• Experience implementing security automation and compliance guardrails.
• Knowledge of observability platforms (Datadog Prometheus ELK Cloud-native tools).
• Experience in multi-cloud or hybrid cloud environments.

• Bachelors degree or higher in Computer Science Engineering Information Systems or a related technical field.
• AWS and/or Azure certifications (Professional-level preferred).
• Additional certifications in DevOps Kubernetes or cloud technologies are a plus.

• Builder mindset: You enjoy designing and building platforms from the ground up.
• Developer-first thinking: You care deeply about developer experience.
• Automation enthusiast: If it can be automated you automate it.
• Cloud-native architect: You think in scalable resilient patterns.
• Collaborative and transparent leader: You foster open communication shared ownership and strong cross-team collaboration.

• Establish a standardized fully automated CI/CD ecosystem.
• Deliver a modern Internal Developer Platform that accelerates software delivery.
• Reduce manual processes and deployment risk.
• Improve developer productivity and operational reliability.
• Lay the foundation for scalable secure cloud-native growth.

Education and Experience:

Bachelors degree in Computer Science Engineering Mathematics or similar major.

Valid drivers license required.

Required Qualifications:

To perform this job successfully an individual must have strong knowledge of Azure AWS DevOps principles Azure DevOps Windows Server Microsoft SQL Server SQL Server Availability Groups scripting (Python PowerShell) automation (Terraform Ansible CloudFormation etc.) and containerization technologies such as Docker Kubernetes.

Certificates and Licenses:

AWS and/or AWS Specialty and/or Professional Certifications preferred

Supervisory Responsibilities:

This position has no supervisory responsibilities.

Work Environment:

• Standard indoor working environment.
• Occasional long periods of sitting while working at computer.
• Position requires regular interaction with employees at all levels of the firm as well as interaction with external vendors and clients as necessary.
• Independent travel requirement: up to 10%.

Compensation Pay Transparency:

• For certain California based roles the base salary hiring range for this position is $124000.00 - $163900.00
• For other California based roles the base salary hiring range for this position is $114000.00 - $150700.00
• For Colorado based roles the base salary hiring range for this position is $109000.00 - $144100.00
• For Illinois based roles the base salary hiring range for this position is $114000.00 - $150700.00
• For other Illinois based roles the base salary hiring range for this position is $109000.00 - $144100.00
• For Maryland based roles the base salary hiring range for this position is $109000.00 - $144100.00
• For Massachusetts based roles the base salary hiring range for this position is $114000.00 - $150700.00
• For other Massachusetts based roles the base salary hiring range for this position is $109000.00 - $144100.00
• For New Jersey based roles the base salary hiring range for this position is $124000.00 - $163900.00
• For New York based roles the base salary hiring range for this position is $124000.00 - $163900.00
• For other New York based roles the base salary hiring range for this position is $103000.00 - $136400.00
• For Washington based roles the base salary hiring range for this position is $114000.00 - $150700.00

Equal Opportunity Employer: disability/veteran

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