About the position
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.
Responsibilities
- 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
Requirements
- 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: Networking, service discovery, pod management, and troubleshooting deployment issues. 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
Nice-to-haves
- Proficiency in Go, Python, Bicep, and Bash
- Experience designing scalable cloud-native software architectures
Benefits
- 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.
- Onsite Health Care Center (HQ) that’s free to employees and family members enrolled in the PPO plan.
- 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.
