Lead DevOps Engineer

McAfee

Lead DevOps Engineer responsible for production-scale platform engineering capabilities on Kubernetes at McAfee. Driving reliability, scalability, and developer productivity through standardized platforms and automation.

Posted 6/12/2026full-timeFrisco • California, Texas • 🇺🇸 United StatesSenior💰 $107,430 - $176,490 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AWSCloudGoGoogle Cloud PlatformJenkinsKafkaKubernetesPythonTerraform

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Lead the design, implementation, and operation of large-scale Kubernetes platforms (EKS/GKE) with multi-region architectures ensuring high availability, scalability, and resilience.
Own Kubernetes lifecycle management including provisioning, upgrades, patching, scaling, and disaster recovery readiness.
Design, build, operate, and harden EKS clusters using Karpenter, Cilium, Istio/Envoy, and IRSA/Pod Identity.
Drive multi-cloud platform strategy and modernization initiatives.
Design and implement enterprise CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions, Jenkins, and Harness to improve deployment frequency and release quality.
Build reusable Infrastructure as Code (Terraform) modules and platform automation frameworks.
Implement AI-driven capabilities for deployment risk analysis, failure prediction, anomaly detection, release scoring, and automated RCA insights.
Own and drive adoption of Backstage as the internal developer platform, including software templates, golden paths, scaffolding workflows, and service catalog.
Improve developer productivity, onboarding experience, and self-service capabilities across engineering teams.
Implement secure software supply chain practices and integrate DevSecOps controls into CI/CD pipelines.
Enforce policy-as-code (OPA) and ensure platform security posture and continuous compliance.
Define platform health metrics, SLIs/SLOs, and implement operational dashboards and observability practices.
Leverage AI for platform health insights, cost optimization, and predictive capacity planning.
Lead reliability engineering practices including incident response, postmortems, and automated remediation.
Develop and execute upgrade and patching strategies with minimal downtime and operational risk.
Provide hands-on technical leadership and guiding platform engineering best practices.
Lead architecture reviews, drive platform governance, and ensure cross-functional alignment with engineering, security, and SRE teams.

Requirements

What you’ll need

8+ years in DevOps / Platform Engineering
Strong hands-on experience with Kubernetes (EKS/GKE) in production at scale
Deep expertise in Terraform and CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, Jenkins, Harness)
Experience with Backstage developer platform (templates, scaffolding, service catalog)
Strong programming skills in Golang or Python
Knowledge of cloud-native networking, RBAC, autoscaling, and cluster operations
Experience implementing DevSecOps and secure supply chain practices
Contributions to Backstage OSS or CNCF ecosystem
Experience with Service mesh (Istio / Envoy), Cilium
Experience with API gateways (Envoy Gateway, Kong)
Experience with Kafka architecture and operations
Experience with JFrog Artifactory / Curation or similar artifact governance tools
Exposure to AI/ML-enabled DevOps and developer productivity tooling
Experience driving engineering transformation initiatives at enterprise scale
Strong communication, documentation, and cross-team collaboration skills
Cloud architecture certifications (AWS/GCP Solutions Architect) is a plus
Kubernetes certifications (CKA, CKAD, CKS) is a plus
DevOps & Infrastructure: HashiCorp Terraform Associate or equivalent CI/CD certification is a plus

Benefits

Comp & perks

Bonus Program
401k Retirement Plan
Medical, Dental, Vision, Basic Life, Short Term Disability and Long-Term Disability Coverage
Paid Parental Leave
Support for Community Involvement
14 Paid Company Holidays
Unlimited Paid Time Off for Exempt Employees
96 Hours of Sick Time and 120 Hours of Vacation for Non-Exempt Employees Accrued Each Year

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Hard Skills & Tools

KubernetesTerraformCI/CDGolangPythonDevSecOpsService meshAPI gatewaysKafkaAI/ML-enabled DevOps

Soft Skills

communicationdocumentationcross-team collaborationtechnical leadershipincident responsepostmortemsoperational risk managementdeveloper productivity improvementonboarding experience enhancementplatform governance

Certifications

AWS Solutions ArchitectGCP Solutions ArchitectCKACKADCKSHashiCorp Terraform Associate