Req ID: 141180 Region: Americas Country: USA State/Province: Oregon City: Portland SummaryThe Lead Engineer, Manufacturing Process is responsible for designing, developing, deploying and optimizing processes for manufact…
Engineering & IT · Portland, OR
DevOps Engineer jobs in Portland, OR
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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$39–$103/hr
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$140k
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accelerate software delivery.• Lead cloud modernization and platform transformation initiatives for enterprise clients.• Mentor engineering teams on DevOps, SRE, cloud-native, and platform engineering best practices.What…
$116.2k - $229.1k
decision logs, and presentations) Familiarity with agile delivery methods, tools, and release management practices (e.g., Jira / Azure DevOps) Experience using artificial intelligence (AI)-enabled tools and digital techn…
tools. In this role, you will report directly to the Director of DevOps & Technical Support in the Payables division.How We WorkAs an... ...and disciplined executionDriving adoption of AI-driven engineering and delivery…
$94.94k - $185.62k
: ANA United StatesWork Type: HybridDate Posted: 2026-08-28Arcadis is the world's leading company delivering sustainable design, engineering, and consultancy solutions for natural and built assets.We are more than 34,000…
$122k - $145k
and identify potential risk situations* Familiarity with agile software delivery methodologies and tools such as Scrum, Jira, Azure DevOps and Rally* Experience using AI tools to generate requirements, user stories and w…
learn how you could help make great things possible not only in your community, but around the world. HDR is looking for a Trenchless Engineer to join our national Trenchless Services team. This role will provide signifi…
$100k - $120k
Azure Infrastructure Engineer – Remote Bright Vision Technologies is a technology consulting and software development company delivering... ...deep technical expertise across Azure services with strong DevOps engineering…
hurricanes, the primaries and more. Founded by 20-year veterans of the cyber security industry, Swan Island Networks began as a software engineering lab working with the US government, focusing on R&D programs. Now our p…
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What devops engineers earn in Portland
Hourly first — that's how the offer arrives
| Experience | Hourly | Annual, full-time |
|---|---|---|
| Entry level | $39–$56 | $82k–$116k |
| Mid level | $56–$79 | $116k–$165k |
| Senior | $77–$103 | $160k–$215k |
Adjusted for the Portland 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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Junior DevOps Engineer
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DevOps Engineer
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