# Staff Engineer - Devops at DDN

Staff Engineer - Devops at DDN in Bristol Office. On-site, full-time. Posted July 15, 2026.

- Company: DDN
- Location: Bristol Office
- Workplace: On-site
- Job type: Full-time
- Posted: 2026-07-15
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/ddn/effe2b1d-c9da-4d4c-926d-302f3a1753b6/application
- Source: https://jobmagic.ai/jobs/staff-engineer-devops-ddn-hd5m7p

## Description

Our DevOps team is at the forefront of innovation, driving high-performance and highly scalable emerging technologies with Infinia Software Defined Storage (SDS). Infinia SDS is designed to support multiple client protocols, delivering robust, enterprise-grade storage solutions for cutting-edge use cases. With a global presence of expert developers, QA, and DevOps engineers, we are transforming the way software-defined storage operates in both on-premises and cloud environments.

### **Why Join Us?**

We provide a unique blend of on-premises and cloud DevOps—more than just managing infrastructure, you will have the chance to deploy critical applications on Kubernetes and shape infrastructure as code (IaC) from the ground up. Here’s a glimpse of the exciting work we do:

- Infrastructure-as-Code: Constantly evolving our infrastructure with Terraform, Python, and Bash, building cloud infrastructure on GCP with future plans to expand into other cloud providers.

- On-Premises Excellence: Develop and deploy self-sustaining infrastructure that delivers mission-critical applications faster, while enhancing flexibility and performance.

- Build and Release Acceleration: Engineer build acceleration solutions by integrating with Nexus/JFrog Artifactory, streamlining build workflows, and connecting tools to self-managed artifact repositories.

### **Cutting-Edge Tools We Use:**

Our infrastructure and tooling reflect our commitment to modern DevOps practices. Here’s how we empower engineers to stay at the top of their game:

- Kubernetes and ArgoCD: Orchestrate scalable deployments with Kubernetes and leverage ArgoCD for automated and declarative application management.

- Packer + MaaS: Create custom bare-metal images with Packer and deploy them seamlessly using MaaS (Metal as a Service) for Ubuntu.

- K3s + KubeVirt: Build a self-provisioning VM environment to empower developers and QA engineers.

- Infinia & Harbor: Utilize Infinia for S3 storage services, and Harbor for container image management.

- GitHub Enterprise (GHE) + Actions: Collaborate using GHE, with DevOps leading the development and maintenance of workflow actions for CI/CD pipelines.

- Docker: Build containerized environments for both cloud and on-prem applications.

- Quay & GCS Buckets: Manage external artifacts with Quay and Google Cloud Storage (GCS).

### **What You’ll Work On:**

- Self-Deployable Environments: Our DevOps engineers are building a seamless, self-service environment to empower developers and QA teams.

- Bare-Metal & Cloud Integration: Get hands-on experience with bare-metal provisioning using MaaS, while deploying infrastructure in hybrid models with GCP and expanding to other cloud providers.

- Streamlining Build Systems: We integrate tools like Nexus/JFrog Artifactory to accelerate builds and optimize workflows, ensuring smoother development and faster delivery.

- Constant Innovation: We believe in continuous improvement, constantly enhancing infrastructure-as-code to make deployments faster, more reliable, and easily replicable.

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**Required Skills:**

All of the following skills are mandatory:

- Application Deployments within Kubernetes using tools like Helm or ArgoCD.

- Cloud experience with Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) is a plus; experience with other cloud providers is good to have.

- Docker experience.

- Configuration Management with Ansible or similar tools.

- Monitoring and Metrics using Prometheus, Grafana, or equivalent.

- Bash Scripting expertise.

- CICD Pipeline Development using GitHub/GitLab, Jenkins, and related tools (e.g., YAML, Groovy).

- Basic Linux Proficiency for underlying infrastructure management.

### **Preferred Skills:**

The following skills are desirable but not mandatory:

- Linux Administration, Networking, and Troubleshooting.

- On-prem Kubernetes Deployment and Administration.

- Virtualization experience.

- Python or Golang programming knowledge.

- CI/CD pipeline automation and scripting using languages like Python or Groovy.

- CI system integration and optimization experience.