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Sr DevOps Engineer

Location: 

Omaha, NE, US

Requisition ID: 179783 

Job Level: Senior Level 

Home District/Group: DHO Information Technology Group 

Department: Technology Group 

Market: Corporate Home Office 

Employment Type: Full Time 

Position Overview

The Sr DevOps Engineer role focuses on helping build and improve the company’s cloud and data environments so they are reliable, secure, and easy for teams to use. You’ll work on modernizing core systems, streamlining how environments are set up, and supporting the tools that store and move large amounts of data. Tihs role involves creating repeatable processes, improving automation, and cross collaboration to ensure teams have what they need to work efficiently. You’ll also work closely with cloud, platform, and data engineering teams while documenting plans, improvements, and recommendations. The ideal candidate has experience working in cloud environments, supporting data systems, improving processes, and communicating clearly across teams. 

District Overview

Kiewit Technology Group builds solutions to enable and support our company's expansive operations. Our mission is to deliver project schedule and cost certainty by employing technology designed by and for the construction industry. Our team utilizes systems and tools that manage every part of Kiewit's business and the project lifecycle to improve planning and day-to-day execution in the field. We give our people real-time data to make faster, smarter decisions. 

Location

This is an in-office role located in Omaha, NE. This role is not offering relocation assistance. 

Responsibilities

Cloud Infrastructure Engineering

  • Design and automate the provisioning of Azure infrastructure using infrastructure-as-code (IaC) patterns.
  • Modernize core infrastructure components including networking, compute, storage, and identity.
  • Improve environment standardization across development, test, and production landscapes.
  • Strengthen governance, security, and operational resilience within cloud environments.

Data Platform & Engineering Enablement

  • Enhance provisioning and deployment automation for data platforms including data warehouses, data lakes, and analytics services.
  • Improve CI/CD patterns for data pipelines and data platform components.
  • Support containerized, serverless, and distributed data workloads.
  • Implement scalable infrastructure patterns that support high-volume data ingestion and transformation workloads.

Infrastructure as Code & Automation

  • Translate knowledge from AWS CloudFormation/CDK or Terraform into Azure-native patterns.
  • Develop reusable modules, templates, and patterns for infrastructure and data services.
  • Improve automation scripts using PowerShell, Bash, or Python.

Collaboration & Documentation

  • Partner with Cloud Architecture, Platform Engineering, and Data Engineering teams to advance standardized infrastructure and data platform patterns
  • Produce high-quality documentation, architectural diagrams, execution plans, and process improvements.
  • Deliver clear, actionable recommendations aligned with cloud and infrastructure best practices.

Qualifications

  • 4+ years of experience in Cloud Infrastructure Engineering, DevOps, or Data Engineering roles.
  • Strong hands-on experience provisioning and managing Azure or GCP cloud infrastructure.
  • Practical experience with infrastructure as code (Bicep, ARM, Terraform, CloudFormation, or CDK). 
  • Experience supporting data platforms such as data lakes, data warehouses, or large-scale analytics environments.
  • Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines for infrastructure and data workloads.
  • Experience working with container-based workloads and centralized registries (Azure Container Registry, JFrog, GitHub Container Registry).
  • Ability to assess current-state infrastructure and deliver structured modernization recommendations.
  • Strong documentation and process improvement capabilities

Technical Experience

  • Azure or GCP compute, networking, storage, and identity services.
  • Infrastructure as code (Ansible,Terraform, Bicep)
  • Automation scripting (PowerShell, Bash, Python)
  • Monitoring and observability (Azure Monitor, Application Insights, CloudWatch, or similar).
  • Experience with data pipeline orchestration or ETL/ELT tooling is a plus

Other Requirements:

  • Regular, reliable attendance 
  • Work productively and meet deadlines timely
  • Communicate and interact effectively and professionally with supervisors, employees, and others individually or in a team environment.
  • Perform work safely and effectively. Understand and follow oral and written instructions, including warning signs, equipment use, and other policies.
  • Work during normal operating hours to organize and complete work within given deadlines. Work overtime and weekends as required.
  • May work at various different locations and conditions may vary.

 

We offer our fulltime staff employees a comprehensive benefits package that’s among the best in our industry, including top-tier medical, dental and vision plans covering eligible employees and dependents, voluntary wellness and employee assistance programs, life insurance, disability, retirement plans with matching, and generous paid time off.

Equal Opportunity Employer, including disability and protected veteran status.
 

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There’s no limit to what you’ll do at Kiewit. Whether you’re building or supporting projects that provide communities with dependable energy, safe transportation, clean water, or access to health care, the work you do will positively impact people’s lives for generations to come. 

Here you’ll have endless opportunities to expand your expertise through on-the-job experience and internal and external training and development opportunities. 

We offer our full-time staff employees a comprehensive benefits package that’s among the best in our industry. From top-tier health care programs to employee assistance programs and retirement planning, we aim to provide you with the tools you need to be successful in the areas of life that matter most to you.

Kiewit is an equal-opportunity employer, and we believe a diverse workforce is vital to the success of our business. We continue our efforts to attract, develop and retain employees from all backgrounds who are passionate about our industry.  

We are committed to veteran and military hiring and will consider relevant military experience as equivalent to qualification requirements.


Nearest Major Market: Omaha
Nearest Secondary Market: Council Bluffs
Job Segment: Construction, Engineer, Business Process, Engineering, Management

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