Computer Scientist I (DevOps Platform Engineer)

Job description

About the Role We’re hiring a Senior DevOps Platform Engineer to own and evolve our CI/CD, artifact management, and developer tooling platforms. You’ll keep Jenkins, Artifactory, and CircleCI resilient and secure, build automation to reduce toil, develop internal Developer Portal plugins, and serve as the primary escalation point for platform incidents. What You’ll Do Jenkins Own end-to-end administration of managed Jenkins infrastructure across Corp and AWS environments. Drive the Unmanaged → Managed Jenkins initiative — migration planning, execution, and stakeholder communication. **Implement security hardening:** RBAC, SSO/LDAP integration, secrets management, and audit logging. Build self-service Jenkins capabilities, provisioning workflows, and Ansible/Chef-based automations. Manage integrations with internal tooling platforms and CICD alert mute/unmute workflows. Plan and execute Jenkins version upgrades with full test coverage and rollback plans. Create and refresh AMIs for AWS Jenkins agent instances. Artifactory & XRay Administer Artifactory deployments across AWS, Corp, and Azure (HA, replication, storage). Lead the New Gen Artifactory initiative and manage architectural migrations. **Maintain Varnish caching layer:** configuration, TTL tuning, and incident response. Manage XRay policies, scan configurations, and drive upgrades and patching. Automate support bundle generation and own license/vendor relationship with JFrog and Varnish. CircleCI Plan and execute CircleCI server upgrades including Nomad client AMI creation and refresh. Manage license renewals, certificate rotations, and cost chargeback reporting. Developer Portal Plugin Development Design and develop internal Developer Portal plugins for Jenkins, Artifactory, and other platform tools using React, TypeScript, and JavaScript. Maintain plugin health, track versions, resolve known issues, and ship iterative improvements. Collaborate with product and DX teams to surface platform capabilities through clean, usable plugin UIs. Write well-tested, maintainable frontend code that integrates with platform REST APIs. Platform-wide Own SLA/SLO definitions, reporting, and auto-launch CSO configuration. Configure and maintain Grafana dashboards, New Relic alerts, and Splunk log pipelines. Manage TLS/SSL certificate lifecycle and token/password rotation (CyberArk, Vault, KLAM). Lead incident response, RCAs, and preventive actions for platform CSOs. **Manage Kubernetes cluster migrations:** Helm charts, RBAC, ingress, and storage. Drive quarterly compliance reviews (QCR) and remediate security vulnerabilities. Manage AWS cost chargeback, tagging strategy, and DNS/Infoblox changes. On-call Duties Participate in a regular on-call rotation to ensure 24/7 platform availability for Jenkins, Artifactory, and CircleCI. Respond to and triage platform incidents and alerts within agreed SLA windows; escalate where appropriate. Perform root cause analysis (RCA) for all on-call incidents and document findings and preventive actions. Maintain and improve runbooks and on-call playbooks to reduce mean time to resolution (MTTR). Proactively identify recurring issues from on-call patterns and drive permanent fixes. Skills & Systems Technical skills **CI/CD platforms:** Jenkins, CircleCI, Artifactory / XRay **Infrastructure as Code:** Terraform, Ansible, Chef **Cloud:** AWS (EC2, IAM, AMI, security groups), Azure **Containers & orchestration:** Kubernetes, Helm, Docker **Frontend / plugin development:** React, TypeScript, JavaScript **Scripting & automation:** Bash, Python, Groovy **Secrets & identity:** HashiCorp Vault, CyberArk, KLAM, CAMP **Observability:** Grafana, New Relic, Splunk **AI tooling:** LLM integration, AI-powered developer productivity tools **Security:** TLS/SSL certificate management, RBAC, vulnerability remediation **Systems:** Splunk, AWS IAM, CyberArk, HashiCorp Vault, Grafana, New Relic, Nexus, Cortex, Azure, KLAM, CAMP, Infoblox/DNS, GitHub Repos, Vendor Portal, Slack, Jira What We’re Looking For Must-have 4–6 years in DevOps, SRE, or Platform Engineering with hands-on CI/CD ownership. Deep Jenkins expertise — plugin management, distributed builds, security hardening. Solid JFrog Artifactory and XRay administration across multi-environment deployments. **Strong automation skills:** Ansible, Chef, Terraform, Bash, or Python. Frontend development experience with React, TypeScript, and JavaScript for plugin/tooling work. Hands-on Kubernetes operations — Helm, RBAC, cluster migrations. **AWS infrastructure:** EC2, IAM, AMI lifecycle, security groups, and cost management. Secrets management with HashiCorp Vault and/or CyberArk. Certificate lifecycle management and TLS/SSL operations. SLA/SLO ownership and incident response experience, including on-call rotations. Working knowledge of AI/ML concepts and experience leveraging LLMs or AI-based tooling to improve developer productivity, automate workflows, or enhance platform observability About Adobe Adobe empowers everyone to create through innovative platforms and tools that unleash creativity, productivity and personalized customer experiences. Adobe’s industry-leading offerings including Adobe Acrobat Studio, Adobe Express, Adobe Firefly, Creative Cloud, Adobe Experience Platform, Adobe Experience Manager, and GenStudio enable people and businesses to turn ideas into impact, powered by AI and driven by human ingenuity. Our 30,000+ employees worldwide are creating the future and raising the bar as we drive the next decade of growth. We’re on a mission to hire the very best and believe in creating a company culture where all employees are empowered to make an impact. At Adobe, we believe that great ideas can come from anywhere in the organization. The next