Senior DevOps Engineer
$117,800 - $176,600 USD yearly
Join the SAGA software team within Qualcomm’s Product and Tools Group to build and automate cloud infrastructure across AWS, Azure, and Kubernetes.
Originally posted 29 October 2026 by the employer.
About the role
The Senior DevOps Engineer designs, builds, and operates platforms and tooling that enable engineering teams to build, deploy, monitor, and run software efficiently at scale. You will work within the SAGA software team in Qualcomm’s Product and Tools Group, supporting cloud infrastructure, CI/CD, and containerized distributed systems.
What you'll do
- Design, build, automate, and operate highly available infrastructure across AWS and Azure using Terraform/OpenTofu, CloudFormation, and Ansible.
- Develop and maintain CI/CD platforms and pipelines automating build, test, security validation, deployment, and release processes.
- Design and operate containerized application platforms using Docker and Kubernetes.
- Develop software, tooling, and automation using languages such as Python, Go, PowerShell, or Bash.
- Improve platform reliability through capacity planning, performance optimization, monitoring, and production incident response.
- Partner with application development teams to define operational, reliability, deployment, and scalability requirements.
What you'll need
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field with 2+ years of software engineering experience (or Master's degree with 1+ year, or PhD).
- 2+ years of academic or work experience with programming languages such as C, C++, Java, or Python.
- Hands-on experience with public cloud environments such as AWS or Azure, covering deployment, networking, security, and scaling.
- Hands-on experience deploying and operating containerized applications with Docker and Kubernetes.
- Experience building CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI/CD, AWS CodeBuild/CodePipeline, or Azure DevOps.
- Experience with Infrastructure as Code and configuration management tools including Terraform/OpenTofu, CloudFormation, or Ansible.
Nice to have
- Experience designing or operating large-scale Kubernetes-based platforms or internal developer platforms.
- Knowledge of OpenTelemetry, Grafana, Prometheus/Mimir, Loki, or modern distributed tracing architectures.
- Experience with messaging and streaming technologies such as Kafka, Kinesis, Event Hubs, or RabbitMQ.
- Experience with cloud security, IAM, secrets management, workload identity, and security automation.
- AWS or Azure certifications such as AWS Solutions Architect, AWS DevOps Engineer, Azure Administrator, or Azure DevOps Engineer.
Skills: Kubernetes, Docker, CI/CD, Terraform, AWS
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This role has been open 0 days — well below the 51-day median for Infrastructure/Platform Software roles.
Infrastructure/Platform Software · Infrastructure Platform
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Open roles in category
1010
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Median days open
51 d
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Category median salary (all employers)
$229k
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See the full market breakdown ▾Category comparison, skills in demand, and who else is hiring
| Metric | Qualcomm | All employers we track in this specialty (1010 roles · 90 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 56 | 1010 |
| Open roles in the wider Software, Firmware & Systems family | 688 | 6265 · 144 employers |
| Median days open | 62 d | 51 d (+11 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $229k |
Skills observed across this category: Kubernetes, Docker, CI/CD, Terraform, AWS
Who's hiring in this category
- NVIDIA · 286 open roles · median 50 d
- Qualcomm (this employer) · 54 open roles · median 68 d
- AMD · 51 open roles · median 29 d
- Graphcore · 49 open roles · median 105 d
- Intel Corporation · 46 open roles · median 15 d
- Cerebras · 36 open roles · median 94 d
How we counted: 1010 open Infrastructure/Platform Software (Infrastructure Platform) roles from 90 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 30 Oct 2026. Specialty figures count only roles carrying this exact specialty label, so an employer's related work in neighbouring specialties is not included there — it is counted in the wider Software, Firmware & Systems family row. Figures refresh nightly.