Devops Engineer

Who we are

DigiCert is a global leader in intelligent trust. We protect the digital world by ensuring the security, privacy, and authenticity of every interaction. Our AI-powered DigiCert ONE platform unifies PKI, DNS, and certificate lifecycle management, to secure infrastructure, software, devices, messages, AI content and agents. Learn why more than 100,000 organizations, including 90% of the Fortune 500, choose DigiCert to stop today’s threats and prepare for a quantum-safe future at www.digicert.com

Job summary

We are seeking a DevOps Engineer who will play a role in updating the state of our infrastructure, automation, and operational excellence. This role requires a deep understanding of systems, networking, monitoring, and security, with a strong bias toward automation, reliability and scale. The ideal candidate will be a technical leader, helping to shape the direction of infrastructure and tooling.

What you will do

• Implementation of infrastructure automation, monitoring, and system reliability practices committed to providing 100% service availability.
• Able to perform forensic system administration, troubleshooting unfamiliar Linux systems and services.
• Demonstrates a SecOps mindset with a focus on secure automation and hardened Linux system administration.
• Champion the use and advancement of DevOps best practices including CI/CD, infrastructure as code, and zero-touch provisioning.
• Utilize best practices in release management, incident management, capacity planning, and operational readiness.
• Instrumentation of services with visualization to speed triage (lower MTTR) allowing no direct access to systems.
• Exerts technical influence horizontally—up and laterally to fellow seniors, and down to the team.
• Acts as a mentor to DevOps and engineering team members; share knowledge and foster a culture of learning and continuous improvement.
• Proactively identify and implement opportunities to increase system resiliency.
• Implement technical direction around infrastructure, cloud, networking (BGP), and automation strategy.
• Participate in on-call rotation, demonstrating strong customer empathy and responsiveness to incidents.
• Own and improve standard operating procedures and system documentation.
• Research, prototype, and implement new technologies across cloud, virtualization, and hardware platforms.

What you will have

• Strong Linux systems administration background with a deep understanding of how Linux interacts with hardware (CPU, memory, disk, networking).
• Advanced proficiency in scripting and automation using Ansible, Bash, Python, Packer, and Terraform.
• Hands-on experience with AWS services (EC2, IAM, VPC, etc.) and provisioning tools like Terraform and Packer.
• Experience with datacenter operations including racking, stacking, and remote system management.
• Proven ability to manage and configure systems at scale with zero-touch provisioning approaches.
• Experience managing monitoring systems and developing custom dashboards for observability.