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…
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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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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…
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and Inc. Magazine. In addition, Selling Power named Allego one of the 50 Best Companies to Sell For in both 2025 and 2026.As a DevOps engineer, you will work with other DevOps engineers and our Customer Success Team to p…
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weekly (typically 13 weeks per quarter), leaving 5 additional remote days to be used as needed.We are seeking a highly skilled DevOps Cloud Engineer to join our Quantitative Investment Science organization. This role is…
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Position Summary AI & Engineering/ EaaS - DevOps Engineer IIIBuild and scale modern DevOps capabilities that help clients accelerate delivery, improve reliability, and modernize engineering operations. As a Senior Consul…
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Moderna is looking for a hands-on, impact-driven Principal Software Engineer, Platform Engineering to help define, build and evolve reusable... ...of experience in software engineering, platform engineering, DevOps, infr…
implement enterprise-scale CI/CD architectures using Microsoft Azure DevOps. Lead the transition from manual software delivery to... ...modern DevOps practices including GitOps and platform engineering. Configure and man…
Senior Azure DevOps / Cloud Platform Engineer Location: Boston area Onsite 5 days a week Duration: 6+ months Visa: USC or GC-EAD or H4-EAD Interview: Virtual interview Note: Candidate must be from nearby state and ready…
cloud infrastructure to support internal systems, customer platforms, and business growth. We are seeking a highly skilled Cloud DevOps Engineer to design, automate, and maintain cloud environments and deployment pipelin…
Job Summary We are seeking a Senior Observability Engineer with strong experience designing, implementing, and managing enterprise-scale... ...-related issues. Collaborate with Platform Engineering, DevOps, SRE, Applicat…
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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