Senior DevOps Engineer

Western Alliance Bank

Senior DevOps Engineer providing expertise in AWS and DevOps practices at fintech subsidiary of Western Alliance Bank. Collaborating across teams to enhance digital payment solutions and ensure compliance.

Posted 6/16/2026full-timeColumbus • Ohio, Oregon • 🇺🇸 United StatesSeniorWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AWSAzureTypeScript

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Provide expertise in a suite of technical tools and products in a given domain to ensure solutions are safe, secure, compliant and reliable
Identify develop and support needs, as well as taking on design responsibilities supporting project tasks
Facilitate dialogue and activities to ensure team collaboration including teams outside of your domain
Develop effective presentations and narratives for their teams
Assist to author and maintain complex infrastructure-as-code templates (Serverless Framework, CloudFormation, TypeScript) for AWS
Implement changes consistently across multi-account, multi-environment, multi-region
Implement and analyze AWS logging, metrics, and alerting
Support AWS core services, networking, security, performance, and troubleshooting, e.g. VPC networking, IAM, S3, Lambda, CloudWatch, WAF, RDS, etc
Enforce least-privilege access control (IAM Roles & Policies, database, etc)
Ensure environmental parity by identifying and resolving drift from IaC templates
Assist to define, implement, and author documentation on standards and policies
Follow established policies and procedures
Research security vulnerabilities, best-practices, and new technologies and turn that research into detailed recommendations
Solid Git fundamentals (PRs, branching, merging)
Deliver work appropriate for secure production systems
Experience in an environment subject to governance and audits (e.g. SOC2, PCI, SOX)

Requirements

What you’ll need

7+ years of related experience in IT App Support, IT Development, IT Networking, or similar field
Bachelor's degree in related field required
Configure and maintain CI/CD pipelines (Azure DevOps and AWS) for application and infrastructure deployments
Troubleshoot pipeline failure and deployment errors with root-cause analysis
Assist with PR validation and release events
Previous leadership experience preferred
Intermediate to advanced knowledge of general Financial Services or Banking is preferred
Advanced knowledge of applicable regulatory and legal compliance obligations, rules and regulations, industry standards and practices
Advanced proven experience in leading cross-functional teams and managing multiple projects simultaneously
Additional experience with pipeline development and leveraging Azure DevOps while working on multiple projects simultaneously
Advanced ability to see the big picture and align projects with organizational goals
Capable of leading and motivating cross-functional teams
Expertise in resolving conflicts and addressing challenges as well as skilled at identifying and mitigating risks at the project level
Proficient in governance patterns tied to intake, technical reviews and architectural compliance
Advanced speaking and writing communication skills
May require up to 25% travel

Benefits

Comp & perks

competitive salaries
ownership stake in the company
medical and dental insurance
time off
great 401k matching program
tuition assistance program
employee volunteer program
wellness program

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Hard Skills & Tools

infrastructure-as-codeServerless FrameworkCloudFormationTypeScriptAWSCI/CD pipelinesroot-cause analysisGittroubleshootingsecurity vulnerabilities

Soft Skills

team collaborationleadershipcommunicationconflict resolutionrisk mitigationproject managementorganizational alignmentpresentation skillsproblem-solvingmotivating teams