Palo Alto Networks is seeking a bright DevOps Platform Developer to join a high-energy team of engineers building mission-critical infrastructure for our cybersecurity platform. You will design, implement and deploy scal…
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DevOps Engineer jobs in Boston, MA
DevOps engineers build the pipelines, infrastructure, and automation that let teams ship software quickly and safely. The work centers on CI/CD, cloud infrastructure, and reliability.
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$46–$120/hr
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Job Profile Summary The Manager, DevOps is responsible for leading DevOps, infrastructure automation, alignment, and FinOps practices... ...Duties Lead and manage a team of DevOps and Automation Engineers, providing ment…
$150k - $230k
sciences industry , committed to making a positive impact on its customers, employees, and communities. The Role As a Principal DevOps Engineer for a new product within Veeva, you will be a founding member of a team buil…
$104k - $169.5k
Requirements: We want 2–5 years of hands-on experience as a Software, DevOps, or infrastructure developer. We need strong programming... ...productivity. We help reduce time to market through better engineering infrastru…
will serve as the Senior System Analyst for MassHealth’s MMIS application. We are seeking a versatile AWS System Administrator/ DevOps Engineer to manage, maintain, and optimize our critical Medicaid Management applicati…
$114.7k - $152.9k
home security space and relentlessly pursue our mission of keeping Every Home Secure. Overview We are looking for a Senior DevOps Engineer to help develop and support our cloud infrastructure and application lifecycle fr…
role supports the U.S. Air Force Cloud One Architecture and Common Shared Services contract and currently has an opening for a DevOps Engineer. SES is seeking a DevOps Engineer supporting AWS, Azure, GCP, and Oracle Clou…
$170k - $205k
diagnosed and treated. We're looking for a Principal Platform Engineer with deep AWS and infrastructure experience. You'll own and evolve... ...ticket queue. The ideal candidate will have: ~7+ years of DevOps/ SRE/Platfo…
startup with enterprise-grade rigor—where talented operators, engineers and clinicians challenge conventions to improve patient outcomes... ...run a serverless-first stack on AWS, and we operate as a true DevOps org: eng…
$119k - $221k
insurance can combine operational excellence and automation with a human touch, we'd love to meet you. We are looking for a Sr. DevOps Engineer II to help us build and scale the infrastructure that powers both our core p…
$90k - $110k
DevOps Engineer KCC's DevOps team plays a crucial role in the development and support of our global catastrophe models and RiskInsight® platform. As a member of our DevOps team, you will be responsible for managing the s…
Seeking a highly skilled DevOps Engineer to join our applications Development team. This role focuses on automating, optimizing, and supporting the deployment and management of application infrastructure in a cloud-first…
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What devops engineers earn in Boston
Hourly first — that's how the offer arrives
| Experience | Hourly | Annual, full-time |
|---|---|---|
| Entry level | $46–$64 | $96k–$134k |
| Mid level | $64–$92 | $134k–$192k |
| Senior | $89–$120 | $186k–$250k |
Adjusted for the Boston market from national ranges.
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What employers ask for
The skills these listings keep naming
AWS, GCP, or AzureKubernetes and DockerTerraform or other IaCCI/CD pipelinesLinux and shell scriptingPython or GoMonitoring (Prometheus, Grafana)Incident responseCost optimization
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Interview questions worth rehearsing
With the thing the interviewer is actually listening for
Walk me through a CI/CD pipeline you built or improved.
Cover the stages, what you automated, and the measurable result — faster deploys, fewer failed releases. Numbers make this answer.
A deploy just took production down. What do you do?
Roll back first, diagnose second, communicate throughout. Then talk about prevention: canaries, health checks, smaller changes.
How do you manage infrastructure as code, and why does it matter?
Explain reproducibility, review, and drift prevention with a tool like Terraform. Mention how you handle state and secrets — that is where real experience shows.
How would you reduce a team's cloud bill?
Start with visibility (tagging, cost reports), then rightsizing, reserved capacity, and killing orphaned resources. A real example with a dollar figure is ideal.
How do you decide what to monitor and alert on?
Alert on symptoms users feel, not every metric. Talk about SLOs and reducing alert fatigue — mature answers focus on fewer, better alerts.
How do you roll out a risky infrastructure change?
Describe staging environments, incremental rollout, rollback plans, and communicating with affected teams before you touch anything.
How do you handle secrets in pipelines and applications?
Name a secrets manager, rotation, and least privilege, and the anti-pattern you are avoiding: credentials in code or CI variables sprayed everywhere.
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Resume tips that move the needle
For devops engineers specifically — generic advice costs you here
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Lead with measurable operational wins: deploy frequency, mean time to recovery, uptime, or cloud cost reductions.
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Name your infrastructure stack precisely — 'Kubernetes on EKS with Terraform and GitHub Actions' beats 'cloud technologies'.
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Certifications (AWS, CKA) still move the needle in this field; list current ones near the top.
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Describe scale: number of services, clusters, or engineers your platform supported.
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Mention incident and on-call experience — teams hiring DevOps are usually buying calm under pressure.
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Where this role goes
Typical progression
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