Senior Devops Engineer at Fortive

Job Summary

As a Site Reliability Engineer, you will solve complex problems in a fast-paced,

collaborative environment, supporting transformational projects in cloud

technologies and automation for a leading SaaS product in the healthcare

industry. You will drive reliability, scalability, and performance across

applications, microservices, and infrastructure, partnering with

cross-functional teams to ensure a highly available, resilient, and efficient

platform.

Key Responsibilities Monitoring & Alerting

* Develop and maintain comprehensive monitoring for system health,

applications, microservices, dependencies, and infrastructure.

* Establish baseline metrics and set up customized alerts for deviations,

collaborating with development teams to define key indicators and thresholds.

* Manage alert routing to appropriate audiences to prevent alert fatigue.

* Monitor and debug Microsoft Azure resources and assist support teams with

technical troubleshooting.

Incident Management & Response

* Oversee incident management processes, including triage, severity assessment,

and coordination of war rooms with relevant stakeholders (DevOps,

development, QA, customer service).

* Maintain on-call rotation to monitor, analyze, and resolve critical

infrastructure issues and incidents, including emergency response.

* Document incidents and perform root cause analysis (RCA), ensuring thorough

follow-up and continuous improvement.

* Lead postmortem reviews and drive action items to completion.

Proactive Reliability & Disaster Recovery

* Design and execute tabletop exercises and disaster recovery simulations

(e.g., service/region interruptions, failover testing, traffic management) to

validate high availability and resiliency.

* Document outcomes and collaborate with DevOps and development teams to

implement infrastructure and application improvements.

* Create standard procedures for incident scenarios where fixes cannot be

immediately implemented.

Continuous Feedback & Reporting

* Develop dashboards and reports to monitor system performance, error rates,

resource consumption, latency, and other key indicators.

* Establish consistent reporting schedules for SLA, system utilization, and

customer metrics.

* Provide feedback to development and DevOps teams to drive improvements in

application and infrastructure performance.

DevOps Pipeline & Automation

* Analyze and optimize DevOps pipelines for efficient and reliable deployment

operations.

* Drive automation initiatives to improve operational efficiency and reduce

manual intervention.

* Experience with progressive rollout strategies and canary deployments.

Collaboration & Communication

* Work closely with cross-functional teams across the organization, including

QA, development, DevOps, and customer service.

* Clearly articulate technical concepts to non-technical colleagues and

stakeholders.

* Foster a culture of accountability, respect, excellence, and customer

service.

* Contribute to documentation and knowledge sharing across teams.

* Advocate for reliability and operational excellence in architecture and

design discussions.

Capacity Planning & Scalability

* Participate in capacity planning and scalability assessments to ensure

systems can meet future growth and demand.

Required Qualifications:

Education & Experience Guidelines

* Bachelor’s Degree in computer science or relevant field

* 8-10 years of relevant work experience

* Experience with Azure DevOps, Kubernetes, Docker, CI/CD, Azure, and AWS.

* Significant experience with database technologies, especially Microsoft SQL.

* Experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools (e.g., Terraform, ARM

templates).

* Familiarity with observability platforms (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana).

* Scripting skills (e.g., PowerShell, Python, Bash) for automation and tooling.

* Security best practices for cloud environments.

* Strong communication and collaboration skills.

* Excellent self-management and time management abilities.

* Creative problem-solving skills.

* Willingness to learn new technologies and adapt to a rapidly changing

environment.

* Technology certifications (e.g., Azure DevOps Engineer) or willingness to

obtain.

* Occasional travel may be required.

Other Preferred Knowledge, Skills, Abilities or Certifications:

* Security Certifications: HITRUST CSF Practitioner, CISSP

* AI/ML Integration Awareness: Supporting ML pipelines in DevOps workflows

* Policy-as-Code Tools: Open Policy Agent (OPA), HashiCorp Sentinel

* Disaster Recovery Planning: High-availability architecture and recovery

strategies

* Cloud Cost Optimization: Performance tuning and resource efficiency

* Multi-Cloud Experience: Supporting hybrid or multi-cloud environments

Fortive 9 Behaviors by Level:

Executing and Contributing

Customer Obsessed: Understands the customer’s needs through observation,

questioning and going to Gemba.

Strategic: Uses data to make informed decisions while anticipating future trends

and aligning actions with organizational goals.

Innovation for Impact: Proactively explores new perspectives and experiments to

solve day-to-day problems.

Inspiring: Understands how their work contributes to the organization’s

purpose.

Builds Extraordinary Teams: Actively fosters collaboration by contributing

positively, supporting shared goals, helping others succeed, and celebrating

team achievements together.

Courageous: Shows strength through action—moves quickly toward goals, embraces

uncertainty, speaks up, and perseveres through challenges with confidence and

integrity.

Delivers Results: Sets high standardsand consistently delivers by focusing

priorities and overcoming obstacles, and upholding organizational values.

Adaptable: Applies rigor by working thoroughly and following processes without

cutting corners while remaining adaptable.

Lead with FBS: Goes to Gemba—observes real-world processes, not just meetings.

Embraces FBS by applying its fundamentals to improve work, engage in kaizen, and

continuously grow knowledge and usage.