Staff DevOps Engineer

Cision
United States, Illinois, Chicago
130 East Randolph Street (Show on map)
Apr 24, 2025
At Cision, we believe in empowering every individual to make an impact. Here, your voice is heard, your ideas are valued, and your unique perspective fuels our collective success. As part of our global team, you'll thrive in an environment that champions curiosity, collaboration, and innovation, all while making meaningful contributions to the brands we accelerate. Join us in shaping the future of communication and building authentic connections that matter. Whether you're solving complex problems or driving bold innovations, your growth is our success, and together, we'll create the conversations of tomorrow. Empower your impact at Cision. Be seen, be understood, be you. This role is responsible for writing clean, production-grade code as they are architecting infrastructure, deploying services, or debugging systems. Collaborating with cross-functional teams to deliver resilient platforms, streamline operations, and accelerate delivery in hybrid cloud infrastructure setups. Essential Duties and Responsibilities * Design, build, and maintain infrastructure and platform tooling across hybrid environments-from cloud-native (AWS/GCP) to on-prem systems. * Develop internal tools and automation to eliminate manual tasks and improve developer experience. * Implement and evolve CI/CD pipelines, deployment strategies, and GitOps workflows. * Work closely with software engineers to embed infrastructure and operational thinking early in the SDLC. * Champion observability, reliability, and performance through metrics, logging, and alerting best practices. * Lead incident response, postmortems, and ongoing resilience improvements. * Contribute to a 24O7 on-call rotation for critical systems. Minimum Required Qualifications * 5-10 years' experience in DevOps, SRE, or Software Engineering roles. * Strong coding ability in languages like Python, Go, or a similar OOP language. * Hands-on experience managing Kubernetes and containerized workloads at scale. * Proficiency with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Ansible) and configuration management. * Deep experience with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP) * Solid grasp of networking, Linux internals, and security best practices. * Deep understanding of CI/CD tools and practices (GitHub Actions, Jenkins, ArgoCD, etc.). * Strong observability mindset-experience with tools like Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, etc. * Experience with hybrid service meshes, multi-cluster Kubernetes, or edge computing, preferred. * Knowledge of Kafka, Redis, Elasticsearch, or RDBMS (MySQL/Postgres), preferred. As a global leader in PR, marketing and social media management technology and intelligence, Cision helps brands and organizations to identify, connect and engage with customers and stakeholders to drive business results.PR Newswire, a network of over 1.1 billion influencers, in-depth monitoring, analytics and itsBrandwatchandFalcon.iosocial media platforms headline a premier suite of solutions. Cision has offices in 24 countries throughout the Americas, EMEA and APAC. For more information about Cision's award-winning solutions, including its next-gen Cision Communications Cloud, visitwww.cision.comand follow @Cision on Twitter. Cision is committed to fostering an inclusive environment where all employees can be their authentic selves and perform at their best. We believe diversity, equity, and inclusion is vital to driving our culture, sparking innovation and achieving long-term success. Cision is proud to have joined more than 600 companies in signing theCEO Action for Diversity & Inclusion pledgeand named a "Top Diversity Employer" for 2021 byDiversityJobs.com. Cision is proud to be an equal opportunity employer, seeking to create a welcoming and diverse environment. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, veteran status, or other protected statuses. Cision is committed to the full inclusion of all qualified individuals. In keeping with our commitment, Cision will take the steps to assure that people with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodations. Accordingly, if reasonable accommodation is required to fully participate in the job application or interview process, to perform the essential functions of the position, and/or to receive all other benefits and privileges of employment, please contact hr.support@cision.com Please review ourGlobal Candidate Data Privacy Statementto learn about Cision's commitmentto protecting personal data collected during the hiring process.