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Cision is seeking a DevOps Engineer to evolve cloud, DevOps, and SRE platforms that enable secure, reliable, and scalable production services. The role covers infrastructure automation, Kubernetes operations, CI/CD, observability, cloud engineering, and operational governance. The engineer will collaborate across teams, mentor peers, standardize platform practices, and participate in a 24x7 on-call rotation. Candidates need at least three years of relevant experience plus hands-on skills in Kubernetes, infrastructure as code, cloud platforms, systems administration, networking, and SRE principles.
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I have managed containerized workloads using declarative manifests and Helm, configured health checks and resource limits, and implemented autoscaling where demand patterns supported it. I also use rollout strategies, monitoring, and clear runbooks to reduce deployment risk and speed incident recovery.
I would organize reusable Terraform modules around well-defined platform components, store state securely, and run validation and plan checks through CI before controlled applies. This creates repeatable environments, improves peer review, and reduces configuration drift.
I start with user-impacting indicators such as availability, latency, and successful request rate, then set realistic SLOs jointly with service owners. Error budgets provide an objective signal for balancing delivery speed with reliability work when reliability targets are at risk.
I first assess customer impact, stabilize the service using safe mitigations, and communicate status through the incident process. After restoration, I ensure the team completes a blameless review with concrete corrective actions, owners, and follow-up verification.
I would apply least-privilege access, secrets management, image and dependency scanning, infrastructure policy checks, and secure baseline configurations. I would also make security controls automated and visible in delivery pipelines so issues are identified early without relying solely on manual reviews.
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.
Empower your impact at Cision. Be seen, be understood, be you.
We’re looking for an accomplished DevOps Engineer to help shape and evolve our cloud, DevOps, and SRE platforms. In this role, you will design and implement the tools, automation, and infrastructure that support reliable, secure, and scalable service delivery across our environments. You will play a key role in improving platform reliability, operational efficiency, scalability, and consistency, working across teams to deliver resilient and well-governed solutions. Reporting to the Cloud DevOps Manager, you will also mentor other engineers and help drive best practice across cloud infrastructure, automation, CI/CD, and site reliability engineering.
What you’ll do
- Design, implement, and improve reliable, scalable, performant, and secure production platforms and services.
- Work closely with cross-functional teams to build and maintain resilient infrastructure and deployment patterns.
- Support and guide engineers across the organisation, promoting strong engineering standards and operational best practice.
- Participate in a 24×7 on-call rotation to support critical services and ensure platform availability.
- Drive standardisation, automation, and documentation to improve consistency, reduce operational overhead, and support knowledge sharing.
- Contribute across the full lifecycle of platform and service delivery, from design and build through to operation and optimisation.
Essential skills and experience
- 3+ years of experience in DevOps, SRE, platform engineering, or software engineering roles.
- Strong Kubernetes experience, with a solid understanding of containers and container orchestration.
- Hands-on experience with infrastructure as code tools such as Terraform, Ansible, or Puppet.
- Programming skills in at least one object-oriented language, along with scripting and automation capability.
- Good understanding of security principles and best practices across infrastructure, platforms, and services.
- Hands-on experience in one or more major cloud platforms, with exposure to AWS, GCP, or OCI.
- Monitoring, alerting, and observability experience using tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, or similar platforms.
- Solid understanding of networking fundamentals and distributed systems.
- Strong Linux and/or Windows systems administration experience.
- Experience with software delivery automation, CI/CD pipelines, and secure SDLC practices, including exposure to static and dynamic security testing.
- Good understanding of SRE concepts such as SLIs, SLOs, SLAs, toil reduction, availability, and observability.
- Experience managing and supporting Elasticsearch in production is beneficial.
Preferred Skills
Kafka
MySQL and/or PostgreSQL
Redis
Networking
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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