DevOps Engineer

About Cision

At Cision, we empower individuals to make an impact, valuing every voice and perspective. As a global leader in PR, marketing, and social media management technology, Cision accelerates brands by helping them identify, connect, and engage with customers and stakeholders. Our premier suite of solutions includes PR Newswire, Brandwatch, and Falcon.io, with offices in 24 countries. We champion curiosity, collaboration, and innovation, fostering an environment where your growth is our success.

About the Role: DevOps Engineer

We are seeking an accomplished DevOps Engineer to play a pivotal role in shaping and evolving our cloud, DevOps, and SRE platforms. Reporting to the Cloud DevOps Manager, you will design and implement the tools, automation, and infrastructure necessary for reliable, secure, and scalable service delivery. This position requires a strong focus on improving platform reliability, operational efficiency, scalability, and consistency, working collaboratively across teams to deliver resilient and well-governed solutions. You will also be instrumental in mentoring other engineers and driving best practices across cloud infrastructure, automation, CI/CD, and site reliability engineering.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and improve reliable, scalable, performant, and secure production platforms and services.
• Collaborate closely with cross-functional teams to build and maintain resilient infrastructure and deployment patterns.
• Support and guide engineers across the organization, promoting strong engineering standards and operational best practices.
• Participate in a 24x7 on-call rotation to support critical services and ensure platform availability.
• Drive standardization, automation, and documentation to improve consistency, reduce operational overhead, and support knowledge sharing.
• Contribute across the full lifecycle of platform and service delivery, from design and build through to operation and optimization.

Essential Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience in DevOps, SRE, platform engineering, or software engineering roles.
• Strong Kubernetes experience, with a solid understanding of containers and container orchestration.
• Hands-on experience with infrastructure as code tools such as Terraform, Ansible, or Puppet.
• Programming skills in at least one object-oriented language, along with scripting and automation capability.
• Good understanding of security principles and best practices across infrastructure, platforms, and services.
• Hands-on experience in one or more major cloud platforms, with exposure to AWS, GCP, or OCI.
• Monitoring, alerting, and observability experience using tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, or similar platforms.
• Solid understanding of networking fundamentals and distributed systems.
• Strong Linux and/or Windows systems administration experience.
• Experience with software delivery automation, CI/CD pipelines, and secure SDLC practices, including exposure to static and dynamic security testing.
• Good understanding of SRE concepts such as SLIs, SLOs, SLAs, toil reduction, availability, and observability.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience managing and supporting Elasticsearch in production.
• Kafka
• MySQL and/or PostgreSQL
• Redis
• Networking

Why Join Cision?

Join a global team that thrives on curiosity, collaboration, and innovation, making meaningful contributions to accelerate brands. At Cision, your voice is heard, your ideas are valued, and your unique perspective fuels collective success. We offer an environment where you can empower your impact, be seen, be understood, and be you.

Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion

Cision is committed to fostering an inclusive environment where all employees can be their authentic selves and perform at their best. We believe diversity, equity, and inclusion are vital to driving our culture, sparking innovation, and achieving long-term success. As a signatory of the CEO Action for Diversity & Inclusion™ pledge and a "Top Diversity Employer" for 2021 by DiversityJobs.com, we are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We provide reasonable accommodations for individuals with disabilities throughout the application and employment process.

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