Senior DevOps Engineer

The role

The Senior DevOps Engineer will lead the deployment, maintenance, and optimization of live production applications. This role involves architecting deployment automation, monitoring infrastructure, and implementing AI-driven automation.

What you will do

• Lead the deployment, maintenance, and optimization of live production applications.
• Architect and enhance deployment automation, monitoring, logging and alerting infrastructure.
• Identify and implement AI-driven automation opportunities across DevOps, observability, and incident management.
• Serve as a technical mentor, guiding junior engineers, reviewing code and configurations.
• Evaluate and introduce emerging DevOps tools, frameworks, and best practices.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with R&D, Support, and Security teams.

Required qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, or a related field (or equivalent practical experience).
• 7+ years of experience in DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering, or similar roles.
• Strong hands-on experience with containerization and orchestration using Docker and Kubernetes, including tools such as Kustomize, Helm, Argo CD.
• Ability to design production-ready clusters.
• Proficiency with at least one programming/scripting language (Python, Bash, or similar).
• Strong software engineering fundamentals.
• Advanced experience with SQL and relational databases such as PostgreSQL or Oracle, including performance tuning and troubleshooting.
• Expertise in Linux-based operating systems and systems administration.
• Proficiency in infrastructure-as-code and configuration management tools (Puppet, Ansible, Terraform, or equivalent).

Nice to have

• Experience building AI agents, workflows, or automation that support DevOps and operational tasks.
• Experience designing and optimizing CI/CD pipelines using tools such as Jenkins or GitLab CI.
• Strong Git expertise, including branching strategies and workflow optimization.
• Hands-on experience with search and analytics platforms such as Elasticsearch or OpenSearch Stack.
• In-depth knowledge of observability and monitoring stacks (Prometheus, Grafana, Alertmanager, etc.).
• Experience with configuring SSO using SAML / OIDC.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills.
• Experience in mentoring and enabling less experienced engineers.

About the company

Bottomline is a global leader in business payments and cash management with over 35 years of experience. The company serves financial institutions and companies in more than 90 countries.