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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Senior DevOps Engineer - **Company:** Total Wine & More - **Location:** Boca Raton, FL, United States - **Experience:** Expert - **Salary:** $122,200.0 - $165,000.0 - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** .NET Framework, Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Artificial Intelligence, C Sharp (Programming Language), Computer Networks, Continuous Integration, Couchbase Servers, Directed Acyclic Graph (Directed Graphs), DevOps, Distributed Data Store, Elasticsearch, Github, Key Management, PostgreSQL, Node.Js, Performance Tuning, Role-Based Access Control, Prometheus, Systems Integration, Management of Software Versions, Google Cloud, Grafana, Multi-Cloud, Kubernetes, Apache Kafka, Azure AKS, Data Pipelines, Jenkins, Golang - **Published:** July 17, 2026 - **Apply:** https://www.dice.com/job-detail/15449ab5-6961-498d-8653-1a66d2e1b918 ## About the Role * 5-8 years preferred * Multi-cloud Kubernetes exp (AKS/GKE) * CI/CD (Jenkins, GitHub Actions) * Backstage exp * Argo Workflow * Distributed data ops: Kafka, CockroachDB, Couchbase, Elasticsearch-tuning, backup/restore, DR * Observability: Prometheus, Grafana, Tempo * Platform dev: Go, Node.js, C#/.NET ## Description Total Wine & More is seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer to join our Technology team in Bethesda, MD or Boca Raton, FL. In this role, you will run Kubernetes on AKS and GKE with a strong focus on security and reliability. You'll use Argo Workflows to orchestrate data pipelines, and scheduled jobs. You'll build, maintain, and improve CI/CD with Jenkins and GitHub Actions. You'll grow Backstage into a practical internal developer platform that empowers engineers with golden paths, reusable templates, and self-service options. You'll operate Kafka, CockroachDB (Postgres-compatible), Couchbase, and Elasticsearch for performance, resilience, and cost-efficiency. You'll help lead observability with Prometheus, Grafana, and Tempo for tracing. You'll collaborate with teams building in C#/.NET, Go, and Node.js, and help drive our AI initiative by identifying practical use cases and integrating tools that deliver measurable impact. You will report to the Sr. Manager, Platform Engineering., * Own multi-cloud Kubernetes platforms on Azure AKS and Google Cloud GKE-design cluster topology, networking, RBAC, and policies for secure, scalable, cost-efficient operation. * Build and evolve the Internal Developer Platform with Backstage-service catalog, golden-path templates, scorecards, and self-service scaffolding to standardize app onboarding. * Engineer CI/CD at scale using Jenkins and GitHub Actions-pipelines-as-code, environment promotion, secrets management, and artifact provenance. * Orchestrate batch/data workflows with Argo Workflows (not CI/CD)-multi-tenant DAGs, resource quotas, artifact/versioning strategy, and guardrails. * Operate and tune stateful services-Kafka, CockroachDB (Postgres), Couchbase, Elasticsearch-including capacity planning, replication, backup/restore, and DR. * Establish end-to-end observability-Prometheus metrics, Grafana dashboards, Grafana Tempo tracing, SLOs/error budgets, actionable alerting, and on-call runbooks. * Build platform tooling & automation in Go, Node.js, and C#/.NET-CLIs, controllers/operators, APIs, and integrations that improve developer experience. * Drive security, compliance, and reliability practices-image/signing & SBOMs, secrets management, network policies, least privilege, cost monitoring, incident response, and postmortems. ## Related Videos - [My journey into DevOps world - How it all started!](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/545-my-journey-into-devops-world-how-it-all-started) - [From DevOps to Scaled DevOps: How We’re Rebuilding Continuous Delivery as a Platform](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100018-from-devops-to-scaled-devops-how-we-re-rebuilding-continuous-delivery-as-a-platform) - [Innovating Developer Tools with AI: Insights from GitHub Next](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1268-innovating-developer-tools-with-ai-insights-from-github-next) - [Go with the Flow: Stop the Leaks Before Your Memory's a Waterfall!](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100073-go-with-the-flow-stop-the-leaks-before-your-memory-s-a-waterfall) - [#90DaysOfDevOps - The DevOps Learning Journey](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/548-90daysofdevops-the-devops-learning-journey) - [We adopted DevOps and are Cloud-native, Now What?](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/485-we-adopted-devops-and-are-cloud-native-now-what) ## Related Articles - [How We Built a Worry-Free System That Runs for 10+ Years – And What We’d Do Again](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/751-how-we-built-a-worry-free-system-that-runs-for-10-years-and-what-we-d-do-again) - [DevOps Engineer Salary [2023]](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/203-devops-engineer-salary-2023) - [Dev Digest 120 - Apple and peers](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/455-dev-digest-120-apple-and-peers) - [Highest Paying Tech Companies for Developers](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/220-highest-paying-tech-companies-for-developers) - [Dev Digest 121 - AI goes offline](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/456-dev-digest-121-ai-goes-offline) - [20 Essential Tools For Backend Development](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/218-20-essential-tools-for-backend-development)