$107.5k - $204.5k
Salary: $107,500 - 204,500 per year Requirements: A Bachelors degree in Science, Technology, Engineering, or Mathematics (STEM is preferred) and at least 8 years of relevant experience Proven experience in Systems Engine…
Engineering & IT · Tucson, AZ
DevOps Engineer jobs in Tucson, AZ
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.
85
Open roles today
$34–$88/hr
Typical pay range
$120k
Median, full-time
4
Fresh in this list
No email, no resume, no sign-up. Save any listing below and you start anonymously.
You're signed in. Saving a listing drops it straight into your pipeline.
01
Open devops engineer roles
12 shown of 85 · sorted by freshness
$82k - $164k
required as only U.S. citizens are eligible for security clearance. Typically requires a Bachelors degree in Science, Technology, Engineering, or Mathematics (STEM) along with a minimum of 5 years of relevant experience.…
$86.8k - $165.2k
Requirements: We require a bachelors degree in Science, Technology, Engineering, or Mathematics, preferably with a STEM focus, plus at least 5... ...with DOORS and/or cPDM. We prefer experience with Azure DevOps methods…
Job Description Job Description Senior Principal Software Engineer Tucson, AZ US The Senior Principal Software Engineer position... ...System and Microsoft Visual Studio, and Microsoft Azure DevOps Server. · Familiarity…
SSI needs to add a Software Engineer III to support our current list of services provided for the U.S. Navy, Surface Missile Technical... ...applying modern software development methodologies (e.g. agile, DEVOPS/ DEVSECO…
Job Description Job Description Software Engineer Onsite position in Tucson, AZ (Full-time Onsite) Company Overview Ondas... ...of cloud and hybrid infrastructure at scale (AWS, Azure) ~ DevOps best-practices and CI/CD (…
States Defense and Intelligence Communities to support national security. Rincon Research Corporation is looking for a DevSecOps Engineer to develop advanced secure cloud computing solutions for complex national security…
national security. Rincon Research Corporation seeks a Software Engineer to create cutting edge software and cloud computing solutions... ...citizenship required Additional desired background: DevOps and Cloud computing…
disciplinary R&D environment with likeminded motivated electrical engineers, mathematicians, and computer scientists who are collectively... ...Experience automating workflows across the enterprise DevOps and Cloud compu…
disciplinary R&D environment with likeminded motivated electrical engineers, mathematicians, and computer scientists who are collectively... ...Experience automating workflows across the enterprise DevOps and Cloud compu…
: Collaborate with brilliant computer scientists, electrical engineers, and mathematicians in a true R&D environment where technical excellence... ...(U.S. citizenship mandatory) Preferred skills: Cloud & DevOps Expertis…
$140k - $200k
people around the globe work on Speechify in a 100% distributed setting – Speechify has no office. These include frontend and backend engineers, AI research scientists, and others from Amazon, Microsoft, and Google, lead…
02
What devops engineers earn in Tucson
Hourly first — that's how the offer arrives
| Experience | Hourly | Annual, full-time |
|---|---|---|
| Entry level | $34–$48 | $70k–$99k |
| Mid level | $48–$68 | $99k–$141k |
| Senior | $65–$88 | $136k–$183k |
Adjusted for the Tucson market from national ranges.
03
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
04
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.
05
Resume tips that move the needle
For devops engineers specifically — generic advice costs you here
01
Lead with measurable operational wins: deploy frequency, mean time to recovery, uptime, or cloud cost reductions.
02
Name your infrastructure stack precisely — 'Kubernetes on EKS with Terraform and GitHub Actions' beats 'cloud technologies'.
03
Certifications (AWS, CKA) still move the needle in this field; list current ones near the top.
04
Describe scale: number of services, clusters, or engineers your platform supported.
05
Mention incident and on-call experience — teams hiring DevOps are usually buying calm under pressure.
06
Where this role goes
Typical progression
01
Junior DevOps Engineer
02
DevOps Engineer
03
Senior DevOps Engineer
04
Platform Engineering Lead
Ten quiet minutes a day
Applying for devops engineer jobs in Tucson?
Robbi carries this page into your first day: your role, your city, your shift preference. Then it hands you a few small things each morning and keeps the pipeline honest.
Save what looks right here, then let Robbi hand you a few small things each morning and keep the follow-ups honest.
Start with this search
No email, no resume, no sign-up.
Open your tracker
Everything you saved is already there.