Senior Devops Engineer Jobs in California
Senior Devops Engineer jobs in California are among the most active in the country, concentrated in the technology, cloud infrastructure, and enterprise software sectors with openings at every level from mid-career to principal engineer. The Bay Area, Los Angeles, and San Diego lead hiring, with well-established employers like Google, Salesforce, and Qualcomm maintaining large DevOps teams across the state. The most in-demand specialties are Kubernetes orchestration, CI/CD pipeline engineering, and cloud platform automation on AWS and GCP. Find a role that fits below and apply directly.
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Top employerServiceNow
Top citySanta Clara, CA
Cities hiring29
Work type37% Remote
Top industryScience
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Engineering Delivery Senior Manager with DevOps, GitHub and Cloud Experience
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Deloitte
Engineering Delivery Senior Manager with DevOps, GitHub and Cloud Experience
San Jose, California
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Senior DevOps Engineer
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SDVI
Senior DevOps Engineer
Sunnyvale, California
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NextPower
Sr. Manager DevOps
Fremont, California
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Senior Staff DevOps Engineer - Flow
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ServiceNow
Senior Staff DevOps Engineer - Flow
San Diego, California
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Senior AWS DevOps and Application Development Engineer
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Creek Technologies
Senior AWS DevOps and Application Development Engineer
Monterey, California
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Engineering Delivery Senior Manager with DevOps, GitHub and Cloud Experience
Deloitte·San Jose, California
Job functions:
$163k - $322k/yr
Bachelor's degree in information technology
10,000+ employees
Job Description
Position Summary
Delivery Management Technical Program/Project Manager/Associate Vice President - AI & Engineering
Join our AI & Engineering team in transforming technology platforms, driving innovation, and helping make a significant impact on our clients' success. You'll work alongside talented professionals reimagining and re-engineering operations and processes that are critical to businesses. Your contributions can help clients improve financial performance, accelerate new digital ventures, and fuel growth through innovation.
AI & Engineering leverages cutting-edge engineering capabilities to build, deploy, and operate integrated/verticalized sector solutions in software, data, AI, network, and hybrid cloud infrastructure. These solutions are powered by engineering for business advantage, transforming mission-critical operations. We enable clients to stay ahead with the latest advancements by transforming engineering teams and modernizing technology & data platforms. Our delivery models are tailored to meet each client's unique requirements.
Engineering as a Service provides complete design, implementation, and technology operations, leveraging our core engineering expertise. We transform engineering teams, modernize technology, and deliver complex programs with a product engineering approach. Our flexible delivery models-traditional teams, pools, or pods-are tailored to each client's needs, offering engineering-led advisory, implementation, and operational capabilities to accelerate innovation.
Recruiting for this role ends on 11/16/2026.
Work You'll Do
As an Associate Vice President, you will have hands-on technical skills as well as program and project management experience to drive technical projects and programs working directly with our onshore and offshore development and engineering teams. You'll bring a mix of hands-on technical expertise with the ability to drive projects to completion managing onshore and offshore teams. You will work directly with engineering teams, assisting with product and service delivery for AI, GenAI, and Cloud platform programs. You'll have full life-cycle project experience with specific technical skills enabling you to be a valued technical member of our engineering teams. You will manage projects, people, clients, risk, governance, and you'll mentor other team members, and help build the business.
Qualifications - Required Skills and Experience
Qualifications - Preferred Skills and Experience:
Wages and Salary
The wage range for this role takes into account the wide range of factors that are considered in making compensation decisions including but not limited to skill sets; experience and training; licensure and certifications; and other business and organizational needs. The disclosed range estimate has not been adjusted for the applicable geographic differential associated with the location at which the position may be filled. At Deloitte, it is not typical for an individual to be hired at or near the top of the range for their role and compensation decisions are dependent on the facts and circumstances of each case. A reasonable estimate of the current range is $163,400 to $322,100.
You may also be eligible to participate in a discretionary annual incentive program, subject to the rules governing the program, whereby an award, if any, depends on various factors, including, without limitation, the individual, and organizational performance.
Information for applicants with a need for accommodation: https://www2.deloitte.com/us/en/pages/careers/articles/join-deloitte-assistance-for-disabled-applicants.html
Delivery Management Technical Program/Project Manager/Associate Vice President - AI & Engineering
Join our AI & Engineering team in transforming technology platforms, driving innovation, and helping make a significant impact on our clients' success. You'll work alongside talented professionals reimagining and re-engineering operations and processes that are critical to businesses. Your contributions can help clients improve financial performance, accelerate new digital ventures, and fuel growth through innovation.
AI & Engineering leverages cutting-edge engineering capabilities to build, deploy, and operate integrated/verticalized sector solutions in software, data, AI, network, and hybrid cloud infrastructure. These solutions are powered by engineering for business advantage, transforming mission-critical operations. We enable clients to stay ahead with the latest advancements by transforming engineering teams and modernizing technology & data platforms. Our delivery models are tailored to meet each client's unique requirements.
Engineering as a Service provides complete design, implementation, and technology operations, leveraging our core engineering expertise. We transform engineering teams, modernize technology, and deliver complex programs with a product engineering approach. Our flexible delivery models-traditional teams, pools, or pods-are tailored to each client's needs, offering engineering-led advisory, implementation, and operational capabilities to accelerate innovation.
Recruiting for this role ends on 11/16/2026.
Work You'll Do
As an Associate Vice President, you will have hands-on technical skills as well as program and project management experience to drive technical projects and programs working directly with our onshore and offshore development and engineering teams. You'll bring a mix of hands-on technical expertise with the ability to drive projects to completion managing onshore and offshore teams. You will work directly with engineering teams, assisting with product and service delivery for AI, GenAI, and Cloud platform programs. You'll have full life-cycle project experience with specific technical skills enabling you to be a valued technical member of our engineering teams. You will manage projects, people, clients, risk, governance, and you'll mentor other team members, and help build the business.
- Product & Service Lifecycle Management: you will work with our product or service delivery teams for AI, GenAI, and Cloud platform programs; engaging with engineering teams.
- CI/CD Pipeline Design & Automation: you will design and optimize CI/CD pipelines with cloud-native and open-source tools.
- Technical Project/Program Management: you will help manage technical programs/projects with your structured planning, reporting, and risk management skills.
- Requirements Management / Business Analysis: you will handle requirements documentation (FSDs), mapping business needs to technical solutions, and stakeholder communications.
- Containerization & Orchestration: you will managing platforms like Kubernetes, Docker, ECS/EKS (multi-cloud preferred).
- Stakeholder Communication & Leadership: you will drive proactive collaboration between PMOs, executives, technical partners, and DevOps teams.
Qualifications - Required Skills and Experience
- 10+ years' experience in CI/CD pipeline design and automation with a proven track record designing and optimizing CI/CD pipelines with cloud-native and open-source tools.
- Experience with Prometheus, Grafana, ELK and Loki and strong DevOps experience.
- Containerization & Orchestration - experience managing platforms like Kubernetes, Docker, ECS/EKS (multi-cloud preferred).
- Infrastructure as Code (IaC) experience - 5+ years' experience in Terraform, with exposure to related monitoring/deployment tools such as Dynatrace, Splunk.
- 10+ years' experience in product and lifecycle management with experience leading product or service delivery.
- 10+ years' experience as a technical program or project manager which should include structured planning, reporting, and risk management responsibilities.
- 10+ years' experience in requirements documentation (FSDs), mapping business needs to technical solutions, and stakeholder communications.
- 10+ years' experience with Git workflows, GitHub/GitLab automation, and best practices for source control.
- 10+ years' experience driving proactive collaboration between PMOs, executives, technical partners, and DevOps teams.
- 5+ years' experience driving large transformational programs including driving DevSecOps pipeline sales and engagements with a focus on RFP development, creating strategies for new engagements.
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, software engineering, information technology or a related field.
- Ability to travel up to 50% of the time, based on the work you do and the clients and industries/sectors you serve.
- Limited immigration sponsorship may be available.
Qualifications - Preferred Skills and Experience:
- Strong fluency in Python scripting for automation, integrations, and tooling customization.
- Release Train Engineering (RTE): Experience in environment oversight, migration, release management, and roadmap coordination in scaled agile settings.
- 8+ years' experience in Cloud Program Management with hands-on expertise with cloud infrastructure provisioning and automation (AWS, Azure, GCP).
- 8+ years' experience with DevSecOps including automated security assessment, remediation, and compliance in CI/CD pipelines and cloud environments.
- Multi-Platform Cloud Integration experience, bridging AWS, Azure, and GCP platforms for modernization or migration projects.
- Incident management and backlog oversight experience with skills around production support, incident resolution, and backlog refinement.
- Knowledge of designing, securing, and implementing APIs for automating business and compliance processes.
- Agile delivery experience, scrum certification, proficiency in Jira/Confluence, user story creation, requirements gathering, and backlog management.
Wages and Salary
The wage range for this role takes into account the wide range of factors that are considered in making compensation decisions including but not limited to skill sets; experience and training; licensure and certifications; and other business and organizational needs. The disclosed range estimate has not been adjusted for the applicable geographic differential associated with the location at which the position may be filled. At Deloitte, it is not typical for an individual to be hired at or near the top of the range for their role and compensation decisions are dependent on the facts and circumstances of each case. A reasonable estimate of the current range is $163,400 to $322,100.
You may also be eligible to participate in a discretionary annual incentive program, subject to the rules governing the program, whereby an award, if any, depends on various factors, including, without limitation, the individual, and organizational performance.
Information for applicants with a need for accommodation: https://www2.deloitte.com/us/en/pages/careers/articles/join-deloitte-assistance-for-disabled-applicants.html
Deloitte
Engineering Delivery Senior Manager with DevOps, GitHub and Cloud Experience
San Jose, California
New 21h ago10,000+ employees
Job functions:
$163k - $322k/yr
Bachelor's degree in information technology
Job Description
Position Summary
Delivery Management Technical Program/Project Manager/Associate Vice President - AI & Engineering
Join our AI & Engineering team in transforming technology platforms, driving innovation, and helping make a significant impact on our clients' success. You'll work alongside talented professionals reimagining and re-engineering operations and processes that are critical to businesses. Your contributions can help clients improve financial performance, accelerate new digital ventures, and fuel growth through innovation.
AI & Engineering leverages cutting-edge engineering capabilities to build, deploy, and operate integrated/verticalized sector solutions in software, data, AI, network, and hybrid cloud infrastructure. These solutions are powered by engineering for business advantage, transforming mission-critical operations. We enable clients to stay ahead with the latest advancements by transforming engineering teams and modernizing technology & data platforms. Our delivery models are tailored to meet each client's unique requirements.
Engineering as a Service provides complete design, implementation, and technology operations, leveraging our core engineering expertise. We transform engineering teams, modernize technology, and deliver complex programs with a product engineering approach. Our flexible delivery models-traditional teams, pools, or pods-are tailored to each client's needs, offering engineering-led advisory, implementation, and operational capabilities to accelerate innovation.
Recruiting for this role ends on 11/16/2026.
Work You'll Do
As an Associate Vice President, you will have hands-on technical skills as well as program and project management experience to drive technical projects and programs working directly with our onshore and offshore development and engineering teams. You'll bring a mix of hands-on technical expertise with the ability to drive projects to completion managing onshore and offshore teams. You will work directly with engineering teams, assisting with product and service delivery for AI, GenAI, and Cloud platform programs. You'll have full life-cycle project experience with specific technical skills enabling you to be a valued technical member of our engineering teams. You will manage projects, people, clients, risk, governance, and you'll mentor other team members, and help build the business.
Qualifications - Required Skills and Experience
Qualifications - Preferred Skills and Experience:
Wages and Salary
The wage range for this role takes into account the wide range of factors that are considered in making compensation decisions including but not limited to skill sets; experience and training; licensure and certifications; and other business and organizational needs. The disclosed range estimate has not been adjusted for the applicable geographic differential associated with the location at which the position may be filled. At Deloitte, it is not typical for an individual to be hired at or near the top of the range for their role and compensation decisions are dependent on the facts and circumstances of each case. A reasonable estimate of the current range is $163,400 to $322,100.
You may also be eligible to participate in a discretionary annual incentive program, subject to the rules governing the program, whereby an award, if any, depends on various factors, including, without limitation, the individual, and organizational performance.
Information for applicants with a need for accommodation: https://www2.deloitte.com/us/en/pages/careers/articles/join-deloitte-assistance-for-disabled-applicants.html
Delivery Management Technical Program/Project Manager/Associate Vice President - AI & Engineering
Join our AI & Engineering team in transforming technology platforms, driving innovation, and helping make a significant impact on our clients' success. You'll work alongside talented professionals reimagining and re-engineering operations and processes that are critical to businesses. Your contributions can help clients improve financial performance, accelerate new digital ventures, and fuel growth through innovation.
AI & Engineering leverages cutting-edge engineering capabilities to build, deploy, and operate integrated/verticalized sector solutions in software, data, AI, network, and hybrid cloud infrastructure. These solutions are powered by engineering for business advantage, transforming mission-critical operations. We enable clients to stay ahead with the latest advancements by transforming engineering teams and modernizing technology & data platforms. Our delivery models are tailored to meet each client's unique requirements.
Engineering as a Service provides complete design, implementation, and technology operations, leveraging our core engineering expertise. We transform engineering teams, modernize technology, and deliver complex programs with a product engineering approach. Our flexible delivery models-traditional teams, pools, or pods-are tailored to each client's needs, offering engineering-led advisory, implementation, and operational capabilities to accelerate innovation.
Recruiting for this role ends on 11/16/2026.
Work You'll Do
As an Associate Vice President, you will have hands-on technical skills as well as program and project management experience to drive technical projects and programs working directly with our onshore and offshore development and engineering teams. You'll bring a mix of hands-on technical expertise with the ability to drive projects to completion managing onshore and offshore teams. You will work directly with engineering teams, assisting with product and service delivery for AI, GenAI, and Cloud platform programs. You'll have full life-cycle project experience with specific technical skills enabling you to be a valued technical member of our engineering teams. You will manage projects, people, clients, risk, governance, and you'll mentor other team members, and help build the business.
- Product & Service Lifecycle Management: you will work with our product or service delivery teams for AI, GenAI, and Cloud platform programs; engaging with engineering teams.
- CI/CD Pipeline Design & Automation: you will design and optimize CI/CD pipelines with cloud-native and open-source tools.
- Technical Project/Program Management: you will help manage technical programs/projects with your structured planning, reporting, and risk management skills.
- Requirements Management / Business Analysis: you will handle requirements documentation (FSDs), mapping business needs to technical solutions, and stakeholder communications.
- Containerization & Orchestration: you will managing platforms like Kubernetes, Docker, ECS/EKS (multi-cloud preferred).
- Stakeholder Communication & Leadership: you will drive proactive collaboration between PMOs, executives, technical partners, and DevOps teams.
Qualifications - Required Skills and Experience
- 10+ years' experience in CI/CD pipeline design and automation with a proven track record designing and optimizing CI/CD pipelines with cloud-native and open-source tools.
- Experience with Prometheus, Grafana, ELK and Loki and strong DevOps experience.
- Containerization & Orchestration - experience managing platforms like Kubernetes, Docker, ECS/EKS (multi-cloud preferred).
- Infrastructure as Code (IaC) experience - 5+ years' experience in Terraform, with exposure to related monitoring/deployment tools such as Dynatrace, Splunk.
- 10+ years' experience in product and lifecycle management with experience leading product or service delivery.
- 10+ years' experience as a technical program or project manager which should include structured planning, reporting, and risk management responsibilities.
- 10+ years' experience in requirements documentation (FSDs), mapping business needs to technical solutions, and stakeholder communications.
- 10+ years' experience with Git workflows, GitHub/GitLab automation, and best practices for source control.
- 10+ years' experience driving proactive collaboration between PMOs, executives, technical partners, and DevOps teams.
- 5+ years' experience driving large transformational programs including driving DevSecOps pipeline sales and engagements with a focus on RFP development, creating strategies for new engagements.
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, software engineering, information technology or a related field.
- Ability to travel up to 50% of the time, based on the work you do and the clients and industries/sectors you serve.
- Limited immigration sponsorship may be available.
Qualifications - Preferred Skills and Experience:
- Strong fluency in Python scripting for automation, integrations, and tooling customization.
- Release Train Engineering (RTE): Experience in environment oversight, migration, release management, and roadmap coordination in scaled agile settings.
- 8+ years' experience in Cloud Program Management with hands-on expertise with cloud infrastructure provisioning and automation (AWS, Azure, GCP).
- 8+ years' experience with DevSecOps including automated security assessment, remediation, and compliance in CI/CD pipelines and cloud environments.
- Multi-Platform Cloud Integration experience, bridging AWS, Azure, and GCP platforms for modernization or migration projects.
- Incident management and backlog oversight experience with skills around production support, incident resolution, and backlog refinement.
- Knowledge of designing, securing, and implementing APIs for automating business and compliance processes.
- Agile delivery experience, scrum certification, proficiency in Jira/Confluence, user story creation, requirements gathering, and backlog management.
Wages and Salary
The wage range for this role takes into account the wide range of factors that are considered in making compensation decisions including but not limited to skill sets; experience and training; licensure and certifications; and other business and organizational needs. The disclosed range estimate has not been adjusted for the applicable geographic differential associated with the location at which the position may be filled. At Deloitte, it is not typical for an individual to be hired at or near the top of the range for their role and compensation decisions are dependent on the facts and circumstances of each case. A reasonable estimate of the current range is $163,400 to $322,100.
You may also be eligible to participate in a discretionary annual incentive program, subject to the rules governing the program, whereby an award, if any, depends on various factors, including, without limitation, the individual, and organizational performance.
Information for applicants with a need for accommodation: https://www2.deloitte.com/us/en/pages/careers/articles/join-deloitte-assistance-for-disabled-applicants.html
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1 jobSenior Devops Engineer Job Market in California
A snapshot from current California openings, updated as new roles post.
Who's Hiring
Top Industries Hiring
- Science & Research
- Technology & Software
- Staffing & Recruiting
- Electronics & Hardware
What California Employers Look For
The qualifications that appear most often in senior devops engineer jobs across California.
- Five or more years of DevOps or site reliability engineering experience in a production environment
- Hands-on expertise with container orchestration platforms such as Kubernetes or Docker Swarm
- Proficiency with CI/CD toolchains including Jenkins, GitHub Actions, or CircleCI
- Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS, Google Cloud Platform, or Microsoft Azure
- Strong scripting ability in Python, Bash, or Go for infrastructure automation
- Familiarity with infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform or Ansible
Senior Devops Engineer Jobs in California: Frequently Asked Questions
How do you become a senior devops engineer in California?
Senior devops engineer roles in California do not require a state-issued license, so the path runs through education and demonstrated experience. Most California employers expect a bachelor's degree in computer science, software engineering, or a related field, though candidates with equivalent self-taught or bootcamp backgrounds are regularly hired at larger tech companies. Earning vendor certifications from AWS, Google Cloud, or the Cloud Native Computing Foundation significantly strengthens a candidacy in the California market.
How much do senior devops engineers make in California?
Senior devops engineers in California earn a median of about $174,410 a year, based on May 2025 Bureau of Labor Statistics wage data, ranging from around $105,060 for the lowest 10% to over $272,670 for the top 10%. Pay rises with experience, specialty, and employer.
Which companies hire senior devops engineers in California?
Employers hiring senior devops engineers in California right now include ServiceNow, Five9, and HCLTech, based on current listings on Migrate Mate as of November 2026. California's density of technology headquarters and cloud-first enterprises means demand is spread across established tech giants, high-growth startups, and large financial and healthcare organizations with significant engineering teams.
Which California cities have the most senior devops engineer jobs?
Santa Clara, Sunnyvale, and San Diego have the most senior devops engineer openings in California. The Bay Area leads because it is home to the headquarters and major engineering campuses of some of the world's largest technology companies, while Los Angeles draws from a growing mix of media-tech, aerospace, and fintech employers, and San Diego benefits from a strong biotech and defense-contractor base that runs substantial cloud infrastructure.
Are there remote senior devops engineer jobs in California?
Yes, and more than most fields. DevOps and cloud infrastructure work is highly compatible with fully distributed teams, making remote roles common relative to other engineering disciplines. About 74% of senior devops engineer openings tied to California are remote or hybrid as of November 2026, reflecting how broadly California employers have adopted flexible arrangements for platform and infrastructure roles. CI/CD pipeline work and cloud configuration management are the functions most frequently offered on a fully remote basis.
How can I get hired as a senior devops engineer in California with little or no experience?
The most realistic entry path is moving into DevOps from an adjacent role such as systems administrator, backend developer, or IT operations analyst, then building toward seniority from within. Large California employers like Cisco, Intel, and major Bay Area cloud companies run associate engineering and rotational programs that hire recent graduates and career changers. Building a public GitHub portfolio with Terraform configurations, Kubernetes manifests, or automated pipeline projects gives California hiring managers something concrete to evaluate, and an AWS or Google Cloud associate certification signals baseline readiness when hands-on experience is limited.
Where can I find and apply to senior devops engineer jobs in California?
You can find and apply to senior devops engineer jobs in California on Migrate Mate, which lists current California openings from employers actively hiring right now. Search the listings to find roles that match your experience level, location preference, and technical specialization, then apply directly to the ones that fit.
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