DevOps Engineer

This mid-level position is ideal for cloud infrastructure and DevOps engineers looking to join Align Technology as an individual contributor focused on designing, maintaining, and improving CI/CD pipelines and release automation processes. Partnering with development and cross-functional engineering teams, you will apply expertise in automation, deployment, and infrastructure management to enhance system reliability and operational efficiency. This role is essential in strengthening Align’s cloud-based ecosystem and supporting scalable, secure, and high-performing application delivery., * Collaborate with development teams to implement deployment and packaging automation for applications using technologies such as Docker, Terraform, and Kubernetes.

• Work on strategic projects to enhance Align’s cloud infrastructure approach and application deployment methodologies.
• Develop automation solutions to eliminate repetitive tasks, monitor system health, maintain real-time inventories and reporting, and optimize existing processes.
• Support the deployment, troubleshooting, maintenance, and operational reliability of distributed systems, client-server applications, and hybrid infrastructure spanning cloud platforms and on-premises data-center environments, including Azure HCI.
• Stay current with modern cloud infrastructure, DevOps practices, and emerging technologies relevant to the role.

Education: Master’s or Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience.

Experience: 5+ years of experience with AWS or another major cloud platform (Azure, GCP).

Skills:

• Experience managing containerized workloads in Kubernetes environments.
• Understanding of container lifecycle management, image creation, and container security practices.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code and configuration management tools such as Terraform and Ansible.
• Experience supporting, maintaining, troubleshooting, and improving on-premises infrastructure, including servers, operating systems, network-connected services, and related platform components.
• Design, maintain, and improve CI/CD pipelines and release automation processes to enable reliable and efficient software delivery.
• Strong programming skills in Python.
• Experience deploying, troubleshooting, and maintaining distributed systems or client-server applications.

Communication: Proficiency in spoken and written English.

Teamwork: Ability to work effectively with software engineers, QA teams, and cloud infrastructure stakeholders in a fast-paced environment.

Complementary skills

• Experience with observability and monitoring tools such as Splunk, CloudWatch, Prometheus, Grafana, or similar platforms.
• Strong understanding of cloud-native architectures and DevOps best practices.
• Ability to document processes clearly and contribute to operational standards.