Staff Engineer – DevOps

Job Description

Job Area: Engineering Group, Engineering Group > Software Engineering General Summary: Job Summary: Qualcomm is seeking a seasoned Staff Engineer, DevOps to join our central software engineering team. In this role, you will lead the design, development, and deployment of scalable cloud-native and hybrid infrastructure solutions, modernize legacy systems, and drive DevOps best practices across products. This is a hands-on architectural role ideal for someone who thrives in a fast-paced, innovation-driven environment and is passionate about building resilient, secure, and efficient platforms. Key Responsibilities: Architect and implement enterprise-grade AWS cloud solutions for Qualcomm’s software platforms. Design and implement CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, GitHub Actions, and Terraform to enable rapid and reliable software delivery. Develop reusable Terraform modules and automation scripts to support scalable infrastructure provisioning. Drive observability initiatives using Prometheus, Grafana, Fluentd, OpenTelemetry, and Splunk to ensure system reliability and performance. Collaborate with software development teams to embed DevOps practices into the SDLC and ensure seamless deployment and operations. Provide mentorship and technical leadership to junior engineers and cross-functional teams. Manage hybrid environments, including on-prem infrastructure and Kubernetes workloads supporting both Linux and Windows. Lead incident response, root cause analysis, and continuous improvement of SLIs for mission-critical systems. Drive toil reduction and automation using scripting or programming languages such as PowerShell, Bash, Python, or Go. Independently drive and implement DevOps/cloud initiatives in collaboration with key stakeholders. Understand software development designs and compilation/deployment flows for .NET, Angular, and Java-based applications to align infrastructure and CI/CD strategies with application architecture. Required Qualifications: 10+ years of experience in IT or software development, with at least 5 years in cloud architecture and DevOps roles. Strong foundational knowledge of infrastructure components such as networking, servers, operating systems, DNS, Active Directory, and LDAP. Deep expertise in AWS services including EKS, RDS, MSK, CloudFront, S3, and OpenSearch. Hands-on experience with Kubernetes, Docker, containerd, and microservices orchestration. Proficiency in Infrastructure as Code using Terraform and configuration management tools like Ansible and Chef. Experience with observability tools and telemetry pipelines (Grafana, Prometheus, Fluentd, OpenTelemetry, Splunk). Experience with agent-based monitoring tools such as SCOM and Datadog. Solid scripting skills in Python, Bash, and PowerShell. Familiarity with enterprise-grade web services (IIS, Apache, Nginx) and load balancing solutions. Excellent communication and leadership skills with experience mentoring and collaborating across teams. Preferred Qualifications: Experience with api gateway solutions for API security and management. Knowledge on RDBMS, preferably MSSQL/Postgresql is good to have. Proficiency in SRE principles including SLIs, SLOs, SLAs, error budgets, chaos engineering, and toil reduction. Experience in core software development (e.g., Java, .NET). Exposure to Azure cloud and hybrid cloud strategies. Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field Minimum Qualifications: Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field and 4+ years of Software Engineering or related work experience. OR Master's degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field and 3+ years of Software Engineering or related work experience. OR PhD in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field and 2+ years of Software Engineering or related work experience. 2+ years of work experience with Programming Language such as C, C++, Java, Python, etc.