Senior DevOps Engineer

HighlightTA is the on-demand talent team for Q4

At Q4, we make an impact together, obsess over our customer, operate with integrity, and bring big ideas to life.

Q4 is charting a bold new path for investor relations as the first AI-driven IR Ops Platform, providing everything an IR team needs to succeed on a single, powerful platform. The Q4 Platform enables public companies to attract, manage, and understand investors—all in one place. Over 2,600 customers, including many of the most respected brands in the world, trust Q4 to help drive premium valuations for their companies. Only Q4 offers a tech stack holistically designed to equip IR teams with data, insights, and smart workflows that power remarkable outcomes.

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We hire smart, curious, and talented people to push boundaries, reimagine what’s possible, and turn challenges into opportunities – all while keeping the needs of our clients at the heart of everything we do.

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About the role

Q4 is looking for a seasoned Senior DevOps Engineer to join our technology team and help enhance the scalability, security, and reliability of our infrastructure. In this critical role, you'll own and improve CI/CD pipelines, guide DevOps best practices, and enable seamless deployment of services in cloud-native environments. You'll be a key contributor to our infrastructure roadmap, mentor others on the team, and collaborate across functions to drive operational excellence.

Key Responsibilities

• Ensuring successful code deployments

• Iterating on best practices to increase the quality & velocity of CI/CD deployments

• Ensuring observability of products released to environments

• Providing development teams with reliable and re-usable CI/CD tools and practices and infrastructure templates

• Ensuring that the CI/CD pipelines are adequately documented

• Ensuring the best practices around infrastructure practices for non-production environments including security practices, recommended architecture, clean-up procedures etc

• Owning the alignment with all required parties on changes to practices, recommendation to software and tools etc. Will be a strong champion of buy in!

• Responsible for maintaining security best practices and ensuring they are compliant on all active pipelines.

• Participating in the building of a dev-ops roadmap that ensures evolution of best practices

• Supporting teams in advanced infrastructural challenges

• Helping to define, improve and document our processes

• Coaching and mentoring team colleagues

Key Tasks

• Deploy and maintain CI/CD pipelines across multiple environments

• Deploy and maintain critical applications on cloud-native microservices architecture

• Implement automation, effective monitoring, and infrastructure-as-code according to architectural requirements

• Establish DevOps best practices through collaboration

• Create tools to empower developers to manage production infrastructure

• Design and develop patterns to positively impact the development, deployment, and introspection processes

• Undertake any other reasonable task that may be asked of you by your supervisor or senior management

What You Bring

• Experience maintaining and deploying highly-available, fault-tolerant systems at scale

• A drive towards automating repetitive tasks (e.g. scripting via Bash, Python, Ruby, etc)

• 5+ years of expertise with AWS (e.g. IAM, EC2, VPC, ELB, ALB, Autoscaling, Lambda)

• Advanced understanding of protocols/technologies like HTTP, SSL, LDAP, SQL, HTML, XML

• Have a thorough understanding of security principals and concerns.

• High working knowledge with Linux scripting languages

• Able to adapt to new technologies

• A deep understanding of continuous integration, continuous delivery, software configuration management, version control, and release management.

• Demonstrated problem-solving and troubleshooting skills

• Self-starter with the ability to quickly learn new tools and products

• Exceptional verbal and documentation skills

• An entrepreneurial mindset likes working in an agile environment, driven to ship frequently

• Cloud Infrastructure Certification (i.e. AWS)

• Experience with Monitoring tools such as Dynatrace, Datadog, etc.

• Experience with automating manual processes and tests to assist QA

Why Q4?

We believe in the power of collective greatness.

At Q4, we embrace diverse perspectives and experiences as the driving force behind innovation and problem-solving. We envision Q4 to reflect the global community we serve, empowering representation and opportunity at all levels. Think you have what it takes, but not sure you check every box? Apply to the role anyway—we’d love to talk.

Should you require any accommodations prior to or during the interview process, please let our Recruitment team know.

How We Hire

We use AI tools to support our recruitment process, including helping us organize applications and identify early matches based on role criteria. That said, every rejection decision is made by a human. We encourage candidates to apply authentically and avoid relying solely on AI-generated responses, especially during interviews.

This posting is for a current, open position within Q4.

This opportunity is offered through HighlightTA, the on-demand talent team supporting Q4’s growth.

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