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Engineering & IT · Sacramento, CA
DevOps Engineer jobs in Sacramento, CA
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–$101/hr
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$138k
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solving and communication skills.Curiosity and a willingness to learn and experiment with new technologies.Experience in architecture, engineering, construction, or a professional services based organization is a plus.Wo…
$110.3k - $165.5k
world’s top design firms while building our clean energy future.Your OpportunityWe are currently engaged as the Owner’s Consulting Engineer in several hydro projects that include complex scopes ranging from refurbishment…
$93.6k - $135.7k
clients and the communities they serve.Join a team that’s naturally committed to the environment.Your OpportunityThe role of a civil engineer is to work on smaller projects, and/or as a team member of a larger project un…
$110.3k - $165.5k
firms while building our clean energy future.Your OpportunityOur US work group has an opportunity for a Senior Transmission Line Engineer; this individual will sit in any of Stantec’s US offices. Project requirements wil…
$145.6k - $218.5k
projects that will benefit future generations. Grow with us, H2O+U.Stantec's Water practice is seeking a highly motivated Geotechnical Engineer to join our successful water team in our Sacramento, California office. Prim…
$145.6k - $218.5k
lead, and do the most consequential work of their careers.Your OpportunityStantec is seeking an accomplished US Transmission Line Engineering Manager to lead and advance our transmission line engineering and design pract…
$121.3k - $182.1k
top design firms while building our clean energy future.Your OpportunityStantec is seeking Intermediate and Senior Civil/Structural Engineers to support our Substation Physical Electrical Teams. This position is ideal fo…
govern software, and we design and implement the agentic software and processes that run it. That work changes the operating model an engineering organization runs on, the ways of working underneath it, and the tooling t…
and delivered as global energy demands grow. From massive data centers to modernizing transmission systems, our industry-recognized engineers and scientists have been at the forefront of grid transformation for more than…
solutions. We invite you to build your Water career at HDR. Our global team is looking for success-oriented Hydraulic Structures Engineers to work in a number of locations on a wide variety of projects in the Dams, Levee…
$113.4k - $198.4k
Release Train Engineer Position Description Lead Agile Delivery Across a Complex Government Transformation Are you an experienced... ..., connecting Agile teams with Product, Architecture, QA, DevOps, Infrastructure, Sec…
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What devops engineers earn in Sacramento
Hourly first — that's how the offer arrives
| Experience | Hourly | Annual, full-time |
|---|---|---|
| Entry level | $39–$54 | $81k–$113k |
| Mid level | $54–$78 | $113k–$162k |
| Senior | $75–$101 | $157k–$211k |
Adjusted for the Sacramento 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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DevOps Engineer
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