Senior DevOps Engineer

Northwind Robotics is a forward-thinking software development company dedicated to building innovative solutions that help businesses automate and optimize their operations. We leverage cutting-edge technologies to create scalable, secure, and user-friendly applications. As we continue to grow, we’re looking for a skilled Senior DevOps Engineer to join our dynamic team and contribute to our mission of transforming business processes through technology. This is a fantastic opportunity to join an established and well-respected organization offering tremendous career growth potential. Senior DevOps Engineer Job Title: Senior DevOps Engineer Location: 100% Remote (Continental United States) Position Type: In-house Northwind Robotics SOW engagement (no third-party client or vendor) Experience: 6+ years Salary: 100k - 150k Sponsorship: No new H1B sponsorship available. H1B transfers welcomed for qualified candidates. Employment Type: Full-time, direct W2 with Northwind Robotics (no C2C, no 1099, no third-party) Engagement: Long-term, multi-year, aligned to the Bright Vision SOW delivery roadmap Compensation: Competitive base salary commensurate with experience, plus benefits. Employment Terms & Visa Policy This is a 100% remote, full-time, direct W2 position with Northwind Robotics. This role is part of Northwind Robotics’ in-house Statement of Work (SOW) engagement. The client, end customer, and employer for this position is Northwind Robotics — there is no third-party client, vendor, or implementation partner involved. We do not engage in C2C, 1099, or third-party arrangements for this role. BUT STRICTLY NO C2C/1099/3RD PARTY COMPANIES. ALL OUR ROLES ARE W2 AND NO 3RD PARTY BROKERING PLEASE. Candidates must be willing to work directly as a full-time W2 employee of Northwind Robotics and contribute to our in-house SOW deliverables. No new H1B sponsorship is available for this role. However, candidates who are currently on a valid H1B visa and require a transfer are welcome to apply. We will support H1B transfers for qualified candidates. For every role, a technical coding assessment is mandatory. Please apply only if you are confident in your technical abilities and hands-on experience. Title: Senior DevOps Engineer Location: Remote Duration: Long Term Job Summary We are seeking an accomplished DevOps Engineer to architect, build, automate, and maintain enterprise-grade cloud infrastructure, CI/CD platforms, and deployment pipelines that support mission-critical applications operating at significant scale across multiple business domains. In this role, you will be responsible for the complete infrastructure lifecycle, from translating business and application requirements into secure, scalable cloud architectures to implementing infrastructure as code, automating deployments, monitoring production environments, and ensuring operational excellence throughout the application lifecycle. The successful candidate will bring deep expertise in cloud platforms, DevOps practices, infrastructure automation, containerization, and monitoring technologies, combined with strong experience supporting highly available, secure, and resilient production systems. You will work closely with software developers, solution architects, security engineers, QA teams, and business stakeholders in an Agile environment to deliver reliable, scalable, and cost-effective infrastructure that enables continuous software delivery and supports strategic business objectives. Key Responsibilities Design, build, and continuously refine scalable cloud infrastructure using AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud Platform, ensuring environments are highly available, fault tolerant, secure, cost-optimized, and aligned with the organization's cloud architecture strategy and operational standards. Author secure, reusable, and well-documented Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform, AWS CloudFormation, or Azure Resource Manager templates, following infrastructure best practices, governance policies, and security standards while enabling consistent environment provisioning across multiple stages. Develop, implement, and maintain enterprise CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Azure DevOps, or equivalent platforms to automate code integration, testing, security scanning, deployment, rollback, and release management processes. Design and manage containerized application platforms using Docker and Kubernetes, implementing scalable orchestration strategies, workload scheduling, service discovery, ingress management, autoscaling, and high availability across production environments. Actively participate in infrastructure architecture discussions, cloud migration initiatives, disaster recovery planning, and technology evaluations by providing technical recommendations that balance scalability, resiliency, maintainability, security, and operational efficiency. Continuously monitor, analyze, and o