Columbia Sportswear
DevOpsEngineer
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“DevOps Engineer at Columbia Sportswear. Skills: DevOps, Cloud Engineering, CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code. Lead design of CI/CD pipelines. Lead evolution of CI/CD pipelines”
Industry & Context.
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What They're Looking For.
Must Have
8+ years software development, 5+ years DevOps experience, Proficient in Python, Proficient in PowerShell, Proficient in C#, Proficient in Bash, Hands-on Azure experience, Experience building CI/CD pipelines, Experience with Infrastructure as Code, Experience with containerization, Experience with orchestration, Solid understanding of microservices, Solid understanding of distributed systems, Solid understanding of RESTful APIs, Familiarity with Agile practices
Nice to Have
Experience implementing CodeQL, Experience implementing GitHub Advanced Security tools, Experience implementing Agentic CI/CD, Experience implementing MCP servers, Experience leading DevOps initiatives, Experience driving platform engineering strategies, Exposure to multi-cloud environments, Azure DevOps Engineer certification, Azure Solutions Architect certification, Experience with observability tools, Experience with logging/tracing
What You'll Do.
Lead design of CI/CD pipelines
Lead evolution of CI/CD pipelines
Lead evolution of IaC
Lead design of monitoring
Lead evolution of monitoring
Lead design of observability
Lead evolution of observability
Lead design of deployment frameworks
Lead evolution of deployment frameworks
Drive scalable service delivery
Drive reliable service delivery
Drive high-performance service delivery
Mentor junior engineers
Influence DevOps best practices
Design CI/CD pipelines
Implement CI/CD pipelines
Manage CI/CD pipelines
Define DevOps best practices
Advocate DevOps best practices
Define DevOps standards
Advocate DevOps standards
Define DevOps tooling
Advocate DevOps tooling
Implement infrastructure as code
Automate build lifecycle
Automate test lifecycle
Automate deploy lifecycle
Collaborate with software teams
Enable reliable deployments
Enable smooth roll-outs
Enable rollback strategies
Monitor application performance
Tune application performance
Monitor infrastructure health
Tune infrastructure health
Monitor system health
Introduce observability
Work in Agile-DevOps environment
Maintain sprint cadence
Ensure infrastructure security
Ensure infrastructure scalability
Ensure infrastructure availability
Ensure infrastructure cost-efficiency
Provide technical leadership
Assist in incident investigation
Assist in root-cause analysis
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
Cross-functional teams; Agile-DevOps environment; Cross-functional teams; On-shore/off-shore teams
Process & Methodology
Agile, Scrum
Full Job Description
**ABOUT THE POSITION** Columbia Sportswear is powered by technology that connects four global brands, a worldwide supply chain, and 500+ retail stores. Our Columbia Digital Technology (CDT) organization is expanding its Global Capability Center (GCC) in India to help drive our next phase of cloud transformation. As a Senior DevOps Developer on our Developer Experience Team, you will lead the design and evolution of CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure-as-code (IaC), monitoring/observability, and deployment frameworks. You’ll collaborate with cross-functional teams to drive scalable, reliable, and high-performance service delivery in a cloud-first environment, while mentoring junior engineers and influencing DevOps best practices across the organization. **HOW YOU’LL MAKE A DIFFERENCE** * Design, implement, and manage CI/CD pipelines for cloud services and microservices. * Define and advocate for DevOps best practices, standards, and tooling across teams. * Implement infrastructure as code using a Test Driven Development framework and common tools such as Azure/AWS SDK, Terraform, ARM/Bicep, and CloudFormation to provision and maintain cloud resources. * Automate the build, test, deploy lifecycle using tools such as Azure DevOps and GitHub Actions. * Collaborate with software development teams to enable reliable deployments, smooth roll-outs, and rollback strategies. * Monitor and tune application performance, infrastructure health, and system stability; introduce observability (metrics, logs, tracing). * Work in an Agile-DevOps environment: story refinement, sprint cadence. * Ensure security, scalability, availability, and cost-efficiency of the infrastructure. * Provide technical leadership and mentorship to other engineers, fostering growth and knowledge sharing. * Assist in incident investigation and root-cause analysis when production issues arise; drive continuous improvement. ## ## YOU ARE * 8+ years of software development or cloud engineering experience. * Experi
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