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Cision is seeking a hands-on Lead DevOps Engineer to guide observability and developer-experience engineering initiatives. The role combines technical leadership and mentoring with direct responsibility for monitoring, logging, alerting, CI/CD, infrastructure automation, and reliability practices. The successful candidate will work across engineering, QA, and product teams to improve system resilience and developer productivity. Key technologies include Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, Jenkins or GitLab CI, AWS or GCP, Kubernetes, and Infrastructure as Code. The position also contributes to defining secure, scalable AI tooling and standards for internal developers.
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I would begin by mapping critical services, user journeys, existing telemetry, alert quality, and incident patterns. I would define service-level indicators and objectives for priority systems, standardize metrics, logs, and traces, and reduce noisy alerts through actionable routing and runbooks. Progress should be measured through improved detection time, diagnosis time, service reliability, and engineering adoption.
I would create reusable pipeline templates with automated testing, security checks, artifact versioning, infrastructure validation, and controlled deployment stages. Production releases would use progressive delivery techniques such as canary or blue-green deployments where appropriate, with automated rollback signals based on health metrics. The platform should provide clear feedback to developers while maintaining auditable controls.
During an incident, I focus on restoring customer impact quickly through clear ownership, a shared communication channel, and evidence-based mitigation. After recovery, I facilitate a blameless post-mortem that documents the timeline, contributing conditions, detection gaps, and prioritized corrective actions. I ensure actions have owners and due dates, then track them until reliability improvements are complete.
I would stay involved in high-leverage design decisions, platform architecture, difficult incidents, and foundational implementation work while delegating ownership of well-scoped initiatives. Regular one-on-ones, design reviews, pairing, and documented standards help engineers grow without creating a bottleneck. My goal is to make the team increasingly capable of making sound decisions independently.
I would evaluate security, data classification, access controls, vendor and model risks, auditability, cost management, and developer usability before broad rollout. A controlled pilot with clear approved use cases, guardrails, and feedback mechanisms would validate value and identify operational risks. Standards should define what data may be used, how outputs are reviewed, and how the platform is monitored over time.
At Cision, we believe in empowering every individual to make an impact. Here, your voice is heard, your ideas are valued, and your unique perspective fuels our collective success. As part of our global team, you’ll thrive in an environment that champions curiosity, collaboration, and innovation, all while making meaningful contributions to the brands we accelerate.
Join us in shaping the future of communication and building authentic connections that matter. Whether you’re solving complex problems or driving bold innovations, your growth is our success, and together, we’ll create the conversations of tomorrow.
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About the Role
We’re looking for a Lead DevOps Engineer (Observability & Developer Experience) to take ownership of two key areas within our engineering operations. You’ll work closely with the engineering teams responsible for our observability platform and developer tools, helping to ensure our systems are reliable and our developers are empowered with efficient workflows. In this role, you’ll shape the technical direction for monitoring, logging, CI/CD, and automation initiatives across the organization, while staying hands-on with engineering work. You’ll also collaborate with teams across the company to drive continuous improvement and innovation.
What You’ll Do
- Lead and contribute to a team of DevOps/SRE engineers focused on Observability (monitoring, logging, alerting) and Developer Experience (CI/CD pipelines, internal developer tools).
- Help define the roadmap and vision for observability and developer productivity, aligning with business and engineering needs.
- Design, implement, and operate monitoring and logging infrastructure, ensuring robust visibility into system health and performance.
- Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines and automation frameworks that enable fast, safe deployments and improve developer workflows.
- Collaborate with other engineering and product teams to drive cross-functional initiatives and ensure reliability and efficiency are embedded into our services.
- Establish and share best practices for infrastructure management, incident response, and post-mortems.
- Contribute to defining and implementing AI tooling and standards across the company, ensuring developers have access to scalable and secure AI platforms.
What You’ll Bring
- 5+ years of experience in DevOps, SRE, or Infrastructure Engineering, including some experience leading or mentoring other engineers.
- Hands-on expertise in observability practices and tools (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, ELK stack) and familiarity with SRE principles.
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines and automation tools (e.g., Jenkins, GitLab CI) and Infrastructure as Code practices.
- Knowledge of cloud platforms (AWS and/or GCP) and container orchestration (Kubernetes), and experience building scalable systems.
- Strong collaboration and communication skills, with experience working across teams (development, QA, product).
- Passion for automation, reliability, and developer efficiency, with a mindset of continuous improvement.
Preferred (Not Essential)
- Experience leading DevOps/SRE transformations or implementing reliability engineering practices at scale.
- Previous software engineering experience.
Salary Range for this role is: Basepay 65,000 – 70,000 Euro Annual Gross
Why Join Us?
This role is perfect for someone who wants to stay hands-on technically while also mentoring and influencing a team. You’ll have a direct impact on the reliability and efficiency of our engineering systems and help shape the way our developers work every day.
As a global leader in PR, marketing and social media management technology and intelligence, Cision helps brands and organizations to identify, connect and engage with customers and stakeholders to drive business results. PR Newswire, a network of over 1.1 billion influencers, in-depth monitoring, analytics and its Brandwatch and Falcon.io social media platforms headline a premier suite of solutions. Cision has offices in 24 countries throughout the Americas, EMEA and APAC. For more information about Cision’s award-winning solutions, including its next-gen Cision Communications Cloud®, visit www.cision.com and follow @Cision on Twitter.
Cision is committed to fostering an inclusive environment where all employees can be their authentic selves and perform at their best. We believe diversity, equity, and inclusion is vital to driving our culture, sparking innovation and achieving long-term success. Cision is proud to have joined more than 600 companies in signing the CEO Action for Diversity & Inclusion™ pledge and named a “Top Diversity Employer” for 2021 by DiversityJobs.com.
Cision is proud to be an equal opportunity employer, seeking to create a welcoming and diverse environment. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, veteran status, or other protected statuses.
Cision is committed to the full inclusion of all qualified individuals. In keeping with our commitment, Cision will take the steps to assure that people with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodations. Accordingly, if reasonable accommodation is required to fully participate in the job application or interview process, to perform the essential functions of the position, and/or to receive all other benefits and privileges of employment, please contact hr.support@cision.com
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