DevOps Engineer

# Staff DevOps Engineer

## About the Role

Newmark is seeking a Staff DevOps Engineer to drive the architecture, reliability, and evolution of cloud-native platforms across the organization. This role spans infrastructure, CI/CD, observability, security automation, and emerging agentic AI-driven operations.

You will provide technical direction across multiple teams while remaining hands-on, designing resilient infrastructure, improving engineering velocity, and mentoring experienced engineers.

## Key Responsibilities

• Own technical architecture for complex, cross-team infrastructure initiatives across cloud platforms, CI/CD, and observability.
• Design, build, and maintain scalable, resilient cloud-native infrastructure and deployment pipelines.
• Support infrastructure for Line of Business Applications, AI Platforms, and core enterprise systems.
• Architect and integrate agentic AI workflows, autonomous agents, LLM-driven automation, and AI copilots into DevOps and platform operations.
• Develop AI-assisted capabilities for incident triage, infrastructure self-healing, change review, and operational efficiency.
• Establish engineering standards and best practices for infrastructure-as-code, CI/CD, security, observability, and responsible AI-assisted operations.
• Lead technical design reviews and provide architectural guidance to engineering and platform teams.
• Partner with product, security, and engineering leadership to translate business strategy into scalable infrastructure roadmaps.
• Identify and resolve systemic performance, reliability, and scalability issues.
• Own incident response and disaster recovery strategies for platforms within scope.
• Lead blameless postmortems and drive durable, systemic improvements.
• Mentor and coach senior and mid-level engineers.
• Drive adoption of modern infrastructure technologies and practices.
• Monitor emerging technologies, particularly AI-driven infrastructure automation, and evaluate their business applicability.

## Required Qualifications

• 12 years of experience in infrastructure and/or software engineering.
• Demonstrated experience architecting cloud infrastructure and CI/CD systems at scale.
• Expert-level proficiency with infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform, Bicep, or similar.
• Strong experience with CI/CD platforms such as GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, or Jenkins.
• Deep understanding of distributed systems, containerization, and Kubernetes at scale.
• Strong experience with Azure, AWS, or GCP and cloud-native architecture patterns.
• Proven ability to lead large-scale technical initiatives across multiple teams.
• Strong background in observability and monitoring, including metrics, logging, tracing, and incident response.
• Deep understanding of security and compliance practices, including identity, Zero Trust, Entra ID/Azure AD, secrets management, and audit/change controls.
• Experience working in a regulated or public-company environment, including SOX or similar controls.
• Ability to mentor engineers and influence technical direction without direct reporting authority.

## Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, MIS, or a related field.
• Experience designing multi-agent systems, tool-calling architectures, or RAG pipelines for infrastructure or operational use cases.
• Hands-on experience building or integrating agentic AI systems, LLM-powered operations tooling, or AI agent orchestration frameworks such as:
• LangChain
• AutoGen
• Semantic Kernel
• MCP
• Technical thought leadership demonstrated through speaking, writing, or open-source contributions, particularly in applied AI and infrastructure automation.
• Experience with event-driven architectures and real-time data processing, including Kafka, Event Hubs, or Kinesis.
• Familiarity with data platforms such as Databricks.
• Experience in commercial real estate, fintech, or operations/transaction systems.

## Technical Skills

• Infrastructure as Code
• Terraform / Bicep
• CI/CD
• GitHub Actions / Azure DevOps / Jenkins
• Kubernetes and containerization
• Azure / AWS / GCP
• Distributed systems
• Cloud-native architecture
• Observability, monitoring, logging, and tracing
• Incident response and disaster recovery
• Security automation
• Zero Trust / Entra ID
• Secrets management
• Agentic AI and LLM-driven automation
• RAG and multi-agent architectures
• Event-driven systems

## Work Arrangement & Schedule

• Location: Dallas, Texas
• Work arrangement: Onsite
• Working conditions: Normal working conditions with the absence of disagreeable elements.

## Compensation & Benefits

• Base salary: $175,000–$200,000 annually.
• Competitive benefits package including:
• Health insurance
• Vision insurance
• Dental insurance
• Paid time off
• 401(k) retirement plan with employer matching
• May be eligible for additional compensation, including discretionary bonuses and short- and long-term incentives such as deferred cash and equity.

## About Newmark

Newmark is a commercial real estate advisory and services firm serving institutional investors, property owners, corporations, occupiers, and lenders. Its platform operates across multiple regions and supports a broad range of commercial real estate and enterprise technology needs.

## Equal Opportunity

Newmark is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. Qualified applicants are considered without regard to protected characteristics in accordance with applicable federal, state, and local law.

## Apply Now

Apply through the job posting and highlight your experience in cloud infrastructure, DevOps architecture, CI/CD, Kubernetes, infrastructure-as-code, observability, security, and AI-driven automation.