Software Engineer III- DevOps

We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer-DevOps to join our dynamic team. This role provides an opportunity to lead projects and contribute to high-impact software solutions that are used by enterprises and users worldwide. As a Senior Software Engineer-DevOps, you will be responsible for the design, development, testing, deployment, and maintenance of complex software systems, as well as mentoring junior engineers. You will work in a collaborative environment, contributing to the technical foundation behind our flagship products and services.

About the role:

• Software Development: Write clean, maintainable, and efficient code or various software applications and systems.

• Dev Ops Model: Understanding of working in a DevOps Model. Taking ownership from working with product management on requirements to design, develop, test, deploy and maintain the software in production

• Develop and maintain infrastructure as code (IaC) using tools such as Terraform and Ansible

• Technical Leadership: Contribute to the design, development, and deployment of complex software applications and systems, ensuring they meet high standards of quality and performance.

• Project Management: Manage execution and delivery of features and projects, negotiating project priorities and deadlines, ensuring successful and timely completion, with quality.

• Write clean, maintainable, and efficient code and infrastructure scripts using Bash, Python, PowerShell, or similar languages.

• Architectural Design: Participate in design reviews with peers and stakeholders and in the architectural design of new features and systems, ensuring scalability, reliability, and maintainability.

• Code Review: Diligent about reviewing code developed by other developers, provide feedback and maintain a high bar of technical excellence to ensure code is adhering to industry standard best practices like coding guidelines, elegant, efficient and maintainable code, with observability built from ground up, unit tests etc.

• Testing: Build testable software, define tests, participate in the testing process, automate tests using, tools (e.g., Junit, Selenium) and Design Patterns leveraging the test automation pyramid as the guide.

• Service Health and Quality: Maintain the health and quality of services and incidents, proactively identifying and resolving issues. Utilize service health indicators and telemetry for action providing recommendations to optimize performance. Conduct thorough root cause analysis and drive the implementation of measures to prevent future recurrences.

• Documentation: Properly document new features, enhancements or fixes to the product, contributing to training materials.

• 4+ years of professional software development experience

• Deep expertise in Python or Java development

• Experience with infrastructure as code in both Terraform and Ansible

• Cloud Platform experience with Google Cloud or AWS (GCP strongly preferred)

• Strong Linux experience and proficiency with scripting languages such as Bash, Python, or PowerShell

• Hands-on experience with containers and orchestration using Kubernetes and Docker

• Experience designing and administering CI/CD pipelines

• Familiarity with source control best practices and Git-based workflows

• Understanding of networking, security, and DevOps/SRE fundamentals

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with test automation frameworks and tools.

• Knowledge of agile development methodologies.

• Familiarity with developing accessible technologies.

• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to work effectively in a collaborative team environment.

The pay range for this position is $102,300.00 to $147,050.00 . The actual base pay offered may vary depending on skills, experience, job-related knowledge and work location. In addition to base pay, employees may be eligible to participate in a performance-based bonus plan and to receive restricted stock unit awards as part of total compensation. Learn more about UKG's benefits and rewards at https://www.ukg.com/about-us/careers/benefits

At UKG, the work you do matters. The code you ship, the decisions you make, and the care you show a customer all add up to real impact. Today, tens of millions of workers start and end their days with our workforce operating platform. Helping people get paid, grow in their careers, and shape the future of their industries. That's what we do. We never stop learning. We never stop challenging the norm. We push for better, and we celebrate the wins along the way. Here, you'll get flexibility that's real, benefits you can count on, and a team that succeeds together. Because at UKG, your work matters-and so do you., UKG is the Workforce Operating Platform that puts workforce understanding to work. With the world's largest collection of workforce insights, and people-first AI, our ability to reveal unseen ways to build trust, amplify productivity, and empower talent, is unmatched. It's this expertise that equips our customers with the intelligence to solve any challenge in any industry - because great organizations know their workforce is their competitive edge. Learn more at ukg.com.