Senior Dev Ops Engineer

Job description

A position at White Cap isn’t your ordinary job.

You’ll work in an exciting and diverse environment, meet interesting people, and have a variety of career opportunities.

The White Cap family is committed to Building Trust on Every Job.

We do this by being deeply knowledgeable, fully capable, and always dependable, and our associates are the driving force behind this commitment.

**Job Summary**

Responsible for designing, building, automating and operating the platform that powers B2B site migration.

Responsible for focusing on reliability, performance, automation, security, and repeatable low-risk deployment patterns (strangler pattern, canary/blue-green, feature flags).

**Major Tasks, Responsibilities and Key Accountabilities**

**•** Design and operate cloud infrastructure to host Next.js front-ends, API layers, and Optimizely integrations, ensuring high availability, security, and scalability.

**•** Build and maintain infrastructure as code (CloudFormation, ARM, Bicep, or equivalent) to provision and manage environments (dev, staging, pre-prod, prod).

**•** Create and maintain robust CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, CircleCI, etc.) for frequent, safe deployments of page-level changes and backend services.

**•** Implement deployment strategies that support page-by-page migration (strangler pattern), including rollback safety, canary/blue-green releases, and feature-flag-driven launches.

**•** Containerize services and operate container orchestration platforms (Kubernetes, EKS, AKS, GKE) and manage container registries.

**•** Build observability into the platform through monitoring, logging, tracing, and alerting tools (Prometheus/Grafana, Datadog, New Relic, ELK/OpenSearch, OpenTelemetry).

**•** Harden platform and application security, manage secrets, and support compliance efforts (WAF, IAM, vulnerability scanning).

**•** Automate repeatable runbooks and incident response processes; participate in on-call rotations and post-incident reviews.

**•** Collaborate closely with product teams, frontend developers (Next.js/React), backend engineers, QA, and Optimizely specialists to enable page-level launches and maintain performance SLAs.

**Nature and Scope**

+ Identifies key barriers/core problems and applies problem solving skills in order to deal creatively with complex situations.

Troubleshoots and resolves complex problems.

Makes decisions under conditions of uncertainty, sometimes with incomplete information, that produce effective end results.
+ Independently performs assignments with instruction limited to the expected results.

Determines and develops an approach to solutions.

Receives technical guidance only on unusual or complex problems or issues.
+ May oversee the completion of projects and assignments, including planning, assigning, monitoring and reviewing progress and accuracy of work, evaluating results, etc.

Contributes to employees' professional development but does not have hiring or firing authority.

**Work Environment**

+ Located in a comfortable indoor area.

Any unpleasant conditions would be infrequent and not objectionable.
+ Most of the time is spent sitting in a comfortable position and there is frequent opportunity to move about.

On rare occasions there may be a need to move or lift light articles.
+ Typically requires overnight travel less than 10% of the time.

**Education and Experience**

+ Typically requires BS/BA in a related discipline.

Generally 5-8 years of experience in a related field OR MS/MA and generally 3-5 years of experience in a related field.

Certification is required in some areas.

**Preferred Qualifications**

+ Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, information systems, or related field, OR equivalent practical experience.

Master’s degree or advanced technical coursework is a plus.
+ 5+ years of professional experience in DevOps, Site Reliability, or Platform Engineering supporting high-traffic web applications.
+ Strong experience with AWS, Azure, or GCP, including core services such as compute, networking, load balancers, CDN, and databases.

AWS experience preferred.
+ Experience with Azure Middleware and platform services (Azure App Service, Azure API Management, Azure Functions, Service Bus, Logic Apps)
+ Strong foundation in Linux administration, networking, and security (firewalls, VPC/VNet, IAM, TLS, secrets management).
+ Solid scripting and programming skills in Bash, Python, Node.js/TypeScript, or similar languages to automate tasks and build tooling.
+ Experience with performance tuning and capacity planning for web applications.
+ Cloud infrastructure design experience in Azure.
+ Has led a B2B ecommerce migration
+ Container and Kubernetes experience

If you’re looking to play a role in building America, consider one of our open opportunities.

We can’t wait to meet you.

**Functional Area** Information Technology
**Work Type** Hybrid
**Recruiter** Hampton, Corey
**Req ID** WCJR-027787

White Cap is an Equal Opportunity Minority/Female/Individuals with Disabilities/Protected Veteran and Affirmative Action Employer.

White Cap considers for employment and hires qualified candidates without regard to age, race, religion, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, protected veteran or disability status or any factor prohibited by law.

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