Staff DevOps Engineer

Staff DevOps Engineer

Staff Devops Engineer

Do you want work on the cutting edge technology?

Do you enjoy being part of a successful team?

Join our Industrial & Energy technologies team

We design and manufacture a range of sensing instrumentation that are utilised in a vast array of market segments. Our Software teams design, prototype, validate, and certify next-generation industrial sensing systems. We collaborate with teams to solve complex technical challenges and design future innovations.

Take ownership for creating future enhancements

Baker Hughes is looking for a Staff DevOps Engineer to lead the evolution of our build, test, release, and runtime platforms across mobile and backend services. You will define standards for CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code, observability, and security automation; mentor engineers; and partner with product and security to ship secure, reliable software at scale.

As a Staff Devops Engineer, you will be responsible for:

• Defining and maintaining the North Star for CI/CD and platform workflows (source control, pipelines, artifact management, environments), emphasizing reliability, repeatability, and developer experience.
•Standardizing CI/CD using Azure Pipelines; create reusable workflows and accelerate delivery for legacy products CI/CD as well as platform workflows.
•Leading modernization of build and deploy processes to containers and managed compute (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes) where applicable.
•Embedding DevSecOps by integrating SAST/SCA (e.g., Fortify, Black Duck) and quality gates (SonarQube) into the pipelines to shift security left.
•Establishing platform architecture principles and guardrails for scalability, security, and operability; document golden paths and reference implementations.
•Driving Infrastructure as Code using Terraform (modular, DRY patterns) and Ansible; promote GitOps workflows for environment provisioning and change control.
•Defining standards for observability (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana), SLOs, and incident response; partner with teams to implement metrics-first operations.
•Establishing platform architecture principles and guardrails for scalability, security, and operability; document golden paths and reference implementations.
•Driving Infrastructure as Code using Terraform (modular, DRY patterns) and Ansible; promote GitOps workflows for environment provisioning and change control.
•Defining standards for observability (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana), SLOs, and incident response; partner with teams to implement metrics-first operations.

•Mentoring DevOps and product team engineers; conduct PR reviews for new components and microservice build scripts; and coach teams on platform CI/CD best practices and secure-by-default delivery.
•Collaborating with Product Management on roadmap alignment, with Security to codify controls, and with QA/Release to streamline testing and release orchestration (e.g., automated tester notifications).

Fuel your passion

To be successful in this role you will:

•Have a Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science/Engineering or related field.
•Have a minimum of 7–10 years of experience across DevOps/Platform/SRE, including leading CI/CD standardization and modernization initiatives in multi-team environments.
•Able to demonstrate achievements improving deployment speed, cost efficiency, and reliability through automation, container platforms, and managed services on AWS.
•Have experience in CI/CD: Azure Pipelines; reusable workflows; build automation; approvals and notifications.
•Have experience in Cloud & IaC: AWS (core services), Terraform (modular patterns), Ansible; Azure Devops based environment provisioning and policy-as-code.
•Containers & Orchestration: Docker, Kubernetes (EKS); packaging, deployment.
•Have experience in Security & Quality: Fortify, GHAS, Black Duck, SonarQube; SAST/SCA integration and quality gates in CI/CD.
•Have experience in Observability: Prometheus, Grafana; metrics/SLOs, alerting, and runbooks for production readiness.
•Able to do Scripting/OS: Python, Bash; Linux, Windows, macOS (build and runtime contexts).

Work in a way that works for you

We recognize that everyone is different and that the way in which people want to work and deliver at their best is different for everyone too. In this role, we can offer the following flexible working patterns:

•    Working flexible hours - flexing the times when you work in the day to help you fit everything in and work when you are the most productive

Working with us

Our people are at the heart of what we do at Baker Hughes. We know we are better when all of our people are developed, engaged and able to bring their whole authentic selves to work. We invest in the health and well-being of our workforce, train and reward talent and develop leaders at all levels to bring out the best in each other.

Working for you

Our inventions have revolutionized energy for over a century. But to keep going forward tomorrow, we know we have to push the boundaries today. We prioritize rewarding those who embrace change with a package that reflects how much we value their input. Join us, and you can expect:

•    Contemporary work-life balance policies and wellbeing activities
•    Comprehensive private medical care options
•    Safety net of life insurance and disability programs
•    Tailored financial programs
•    Additional elected or voluntary benefits

The Baker Hughes internal title for this role is: Digital Technology Senior Specialist - DevOps Engineering

Experience Level

Senior Level