Senior Software Engineer – Kubernetes, DevOps & Automation

Senior Software Engineer – Kubernetes, DevOps & Automation- Hybrid, Cary NC 

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We’re a leader in data and AI. Through our software and services, we inspire customers around the world to transform data into intelligence - and questions into answers.

We’re also a debt-free multi-billion-dollar organization on our path to IPO-readiness. If you're looking for a dynamic, fulfilling career coupled with flexibility and world-class employee experience, you'll find it here.

About the job

Are you an experienced software engineer who thrives in building scalable automation, leading cloud-native deployments, and driving DevOps excellence—particularly in Kubernetes ecosystems? Do you bring deep, practical knowledge of leading DevOps tools and enjoy assessing their strengths and trade-offs? Are your hands-on development skills sharp and something you genuinely love to apply? If you enjoy working across disciplines, mentoring emerging talent, and collaborating with senior architects to shape technical strategy, this role offers the perfect challenge and opportunity.

As a Cloud Deployment Software Engineer, you’ll join the SAS Software-as-a-Service team to help design and implement the foundational cloud architecture behind SAS's next-gen offerings—starting with our newest, most innovative platform to date: SAS® Viya® Workbench.

In this hands-on, high-impact role, you’ll lead efforts to codify the full software lifecycle—from development and testing to deployment and delivery—through robust CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure-as-code (IaC). You’ll contribute to shaping the future of cloud at SAS from the ground up.

As a Senior DevOps Engineer, you will:

• Lead a highly collaborative design effort and implementation of enterprise-grade CI/CD pipelines and DevOps strategies for a major SaaS product
• Share your insights into industry-wide DevOps strategies and tools
• Collaborate across teams to craft deployment strategies that scale with product needs
• Provide technical leadership and mentor engineers on DevOps best practices
• Scope product requirements, estimate effort, and help define release schedules
• Drive Agile sprint goals and contribute across all phases of software development
• Develop and maintain unit tests to ensure quality and reliability
• Support internal customers and collaborate with technical writers on documentation
• Uphold secure coding and deployment practices aligned with SAS’s security goals

Required Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience working on large complex software products as a developer.
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, or a related quantitative field.
• Proven software engineering skills, with hands-on experience in DevOps development
• Recent, hands-on expertise in Kubernetes, including: 1. Networking, service discovery, pod management, and troubleshooting deployment issues. 2. Use of tools such as kubectl, K9s, Lens, Helm, and authoring YAML manifests
• Proficiency with automation and IaC tools like Ansible and Terraform
• Hands-on experience with CI/CD tools including Git, GitHub Workflows, ArgoCD, Jenkins
• Solid command of Linux/UNIX systems and shell scripting
• Experience deploying and managing infrastructure on AWS and/or Microsoft Azure

Preferred qualifications

• Proficiency in Go, Python, Bicep, and Bash
• Experience designing scalable cloud-native software architectures

World-Class Benefits  

Highlights include...

• Comprehensive medical, prescription, dental and vision plans.
• Medical plan options include...
  • PPO with low annual deductible and copays.
  • HDHP combined with a health savings account with a contribution from SAS (no access to on-site health care center).
• Onsite Health Care Center (HQ) that’s free to employees and family members enrolled in the PPO plan. There's a pharmacy too! Not local to HQ? The pharmacy will ship prescriptions for no additional charge!
• An industry-leading 401k plan.
• Generous time away including vacation time, a variety of paid holidays, and our much-loved U.S. Winter Wellness Break between December 25 and January 1.
• Volunteer Time Off, parental leave and unlimited paid sick days.
• Generous childcare benefits for all full-time employees.

Diverse and Inclusive

At SAS, it’s not about fitting into our culture – it’s about adding to it. We believe our people make the difference. Our diverse workforce brings together unique talents and inspires teams to create amazing software that reflects the diversity of our users and customers. Our commitment to diversity is a priority to our leadership, all the way up to the top; and it’s essential to who we are. To put it plainly: you are welcome here.

Additional Information:

To qualify, applicants must be legally authorized to work in the United States, and should not require, now or in the future, sponsorship for employment visa status. SAS is an equal opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants are considered for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law. Read more: Know Your Rights. 

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