DevOps Engineer- Senior Associate- Public Sector

About Publicis Sapient

Most companies in the AI era do one of two things: they advise, or they sell you a tool. We do both. Publicis Sapient is a technology company that provides enterprise AI platforms and services, which means we build our own AI platforms and bring the strategists, product thinkers, designers and engineers who make them work inside the world's most complex businesses. It is where people and products shape the future of enterprise, and where your ideas actually reach the organizations that run the world. If you want to question how things are done, learn continuously and do the best work of your career alongside 20,000 people across 28 countries, you're in the right place. Come build with us.

Our Commitment to Inclusive Hiring 

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Why This Role Matters

Publicis Sapient is looking for a Senior DevOps Engineer to join our team of bright thinkers and doers. You’ll use your problem-solving creativity to tackle our clients’ most complex and challenging problems across different industries. We are on a mission to transform the world, and you will be instrumental in shaping how we do it through your ideas, expertise, and solutions.

This role is an excellent opportunity for someone who would like to join an international, global organization with a start-up mentality. We highly value Openness, Collaboration, and a Learning Mindset, and we partner with our clients to drive positive outcomes.

Where You’ll Make an Impact

• Build and evolve a robust service environment supporting more than 150 developers.
• Create and nurture new ways to deliver secure, reliable, and highly available business-critical software.
• Help spread and strengthen the DevOps culture throughout the organization.
• Provide tailored solutions for complex projects, working both autonomously and as part of a collaborative team.
• Build and manage infrastructure as code, with AWS as the primary cloud platform.
• Support cloud-native deployments and operations using Kubernetes on AWS EKS, including Karpenter and FluxCD.
• Contribute to multi-cloud environments where experience with GCP or Microsoft Azure is valuable alongside the mandatory AWS expertise.
• Provide operational and technical support for our teams and clients.
• Work in an Agile environment and actively contribute to continuous improvement.

What You’ll Bring to the Team

Ops & Infrastructure

• Advanced Linux setup and operation.
• System and network security and incident mitigation.
• Experience with caching solutions such as Varnish, Redis, and Memcache.

Provisioning

• Strong hands-on AWS experience is mandatory.
• Terraform.
• Ansible.
• Experience with GCP and/or Microsoft Azure is considered an advantage.

CI/CD & SCM

• Git, GitLab, and/or Bitbucket.
• GitLab CI/CD.
• Jenkins.

Deployment

• Docker and Docker Compose.

Orchestration & GitOps

• Kubernetes, with hands-on experience in AWS EKS.
• Karpenter.
• FluxCD.

Monitoring & Observability

• Prometheus Stack.
• ELK Stack.

AI-Assisted Engineering Skills

• Practical experience using organization- or client-approved AI-assisted engineering tools.
• Ability to leverage AI assistance for Terraform and CI/CD pipeline development, scripting, troubleshooting, root-cause analysis, documentation, and knowledge discovery.
• Ability to critically assess, test, and validate AI-generated code, configurations, and recommendations before production deployment.

What You’ll Get in Return

• A fast-paced tech environment
• Continuous growth & learning
• Open feedback culture
• Room for own initiative & ideas
• Transparency about results & strategy
• Recognition & reward for hard work
• Working with a flexible schedule 
• Medical subscription
• Meal tickets
• Extra vacation days - starting with 25 vacation days
• Many others perks