Senior DevOps Engineer

Employment Type: Salaried

Work Arrangement: Hybrid

Position Summary:

The Senior DevOps Engineer is primally responsible for building, maintaining, and scaling our DevOps infrastructure, ensuring reliability, performance, and security across development pipelines and production environments in AWS Cloud. This role is also responsible for the setup, configuration and management of JD Edwards EnterpriseOne applications, including performing both typical CNC activities such as environment installation and upgrading, performance tuning, package builds, security setup as well as identifying and solving information and technological challenges relating to EnterpriseOne.

Major Duties and Responsibilities:

• Environment Setup & Cloud Infrastructure

Set up and administer environments (Dev, QA, UAT, PROD) in AWS using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools like Terraform and Ansible. Drive adoption of cloud-native technologies (AWS, Azure) focusing on high availability, scalability, and cost optimization.

• CI/CD Pipeline Engineering & Deployment

Design, build, and maintain CI/CD pipelines using tools such as Jenkins, GitHub Actions, or ArgoCD. Deploy and manage serverless, VM-based, and containerized applications using Docker and Kubernetes (EKS, GKE, AKS).

• Monitoring & Troubleshooting

Monitor and troubleshoot AWS environments using tools like Prometheus, Grafana, New Relic, Splunk, or ELK Stack.

• DevSecOps & Security Automation

Automate security practices using tools such as Snyk, Checkov, Trivy within CI/CD pipelines. Manage application patching and vulnerability remediation

• Multi-Platform CI/CD Management

Build and manage CI/CD pipelines for SaaS, PaaS, and custom applications across on-prem and cloud platforms (e.g., Salesforce, MuleSoft, Snowflake).

• Collaboration & Agile Practices

Collaborate with developers for smooth code integration and deployments. Work within Agile/Scrum frameworks using Jira and follow ITIL change management processes via ServiceNow.

• DevOps Strategy & Transformation

Lead and drive DevOps, DataOps, and ML/AI Ops initiatives across the organization. Promote and implement Agile methodologies throughout the SDLC.

Education and Experience:

Required:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field
• 8 years'' Experience with DevOps & Cloud

Knowledge and Skills:

Required:

• Strong proficiency with CI/CD tools (e.g., Jenkins, GitHub Actions, ArgoCD,).
• Experience with AWS services such as EC2, EKS, S3, IAM, CloudWatch, VPC, Route53, RDS, etc.
• Hands-on with Kubernetes in production (preferably EKS) and Docker.
• Experience with scripting and automation using Python, Bash, or PowerShell.
• Familiarity with IaC tools like Terraform, Ansible, or CloudFormation.
• Deep understanding of Git workflows, branching strategies, and GitOps principles.
• Monitoring and logging experience with tools like Splunk, New Relic, Prometheus, Grafana, or ELK.
• Strong focus on security - experience with DevSecOps, vulnerability scanning tools (Snyk, Aqua, Twistlock).

Preferred:

• Experience in managing deployments on ERP platforms (Oracle), Salesforce, UiPath, MuleSoft, Snowflake.

Why Join Us:

Ventura Foods innovates and manufactures food solutions for foodservice and retail businesses. We make exclusive products for the world''s most iconic restaurants and retailers, we provide ready-to-go product solutions for professional kitchens, and we make consumer brands everyone knows and loves. When you work for Ventura Foods, you get a strong foundation of training, a manager who cares about you and celebrates your success, a safe environment, and challenging work. As part of our team, your future is limited only by how much you're willing to push yourself to get there. We invest in your growth because you invest in ours.

Ventura Foods offers career growth opportunities as well as competitive compensation and benefits:

• Medical, Prescription, Dental, & Vision - coverage beginning on your 1st day for eligible employees
• Profit Sharing and 401(k) matching (after eligible criteria is met)
• Paid Vacation, Sick Time, and Holidays
• Employee Appreciation Events and Employee Assistance Programs
• Salary Base Range of $130,874.00 - $171,772.65*
• The "base salary range" provided above is a good faith estimate of what we expect to pay for this position in the specified markets. Ventura Foods reserves the right to pay outside of the given range based on a variety of factors including but not limited to: candidate skills and experience, complexity of the job, budgetary factors, and location/geography. Ventura Foods conducts regular reviews of compensation ranges and therefore reserves the right to alter this range at any given time.

Diversity & Inclusion:

Our commitment to a diverse and inclusive environment in which all employees are treated with respect is evident in our company culture and values. We believe that fostering an environment of inclusion and a focus on diversity across our organization is vital to attracting top talent, driving innovation, and meeting the high expectations of our customers in a rapidly evolving global marketplace.

Ventura Foods is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law.

Ventura Foods may use Artificial Intelligence (AI) assisted tools at certain stages of our hiring process, including identifying & sourcing candidates, reviewing applications and matched candidates on job boards and websites, and generating screening questions to help us work more efficiently and consistently. We regularly review our tools to promote fairness and reduce the risk of bias. However, while these tools support our process, every hiring decision is made by a real person on our team. Applicants in the State of New York may request an alternative process by contacting us at VFaccessibility@rescocompany.com.

Nearest Major Market: Irvine California

Nearest Secondary Market: Los Angeles