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Adobe

Senior DevOps Engineer- AI/ML Infrastructure & Shared Platform

Adobe · San Jose, California, US
full-timesenior (5-12 yrs)Posted 75d ago
DevOps / Site Reliability EngineeringIC3ICHybrid (3d)
StackKubernetesDockerHelmTerraformAnsibleAzureAWSGCPPythonBashPowerShellGitHub ActionsJenkinsAzure DevOpsCI/CDDatadogPrometheusGrafanaELK/KibanaLinuxMicroservicesMLOpsGenerative AILLM infrastructureInfrastructure as CodeStatic code analysisSecurity compliance

Summary

Adobe's Gen AI Experience Engineering team is hiring a Senior DevOps Engineer to architect and operate the shared cloud infrastructure powering Adobe's AI Assistant and ML services across Experience Cloud. The role spans CI/CD, Kubernetes orchestration, MLOps, observability, and security across multi-cloud environments (Azure, AWS, GCP).

About the role

Our Team 

The Gen AI Experience Engineering team is pioneering AI integration across Adobe Experience Cloud, operating with a startup mentality and a focus on rapid, iterative delivery of scalable solutions that empower both our customers and internal teams. 

The Opportunity 

Are you passionate about enabling world-class AI-powered experiences through robust infrastructure and automation? We're seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer to architect, implement, and maintain the shared app infrastructure supporting our AI Assistant and related services across Adobe Experience Cloud. This role requires deep technical expertise in infrastructure automation, cloud-native systems, and MLOps engineering, along with strong cross-functional collaboration skills. The position spans custom tool development, deployment, performance validation, and monitoring—ensuring highly reliable and secure infrastructure to support Adobe's rapidly evolving AI initiatives. 

Impact You'll Make 

You'll be instrumental in designing and operating the backbone that powers our AI Assistant and shared applications. Your work will ensure reliability, scalability, and security for these critical services—enabling rapid experimentation, seamless model deployment, and the continuous delivery of new AI-powered features at scale. 

 

Key Responsibilities 

  • Architect, build, and maintain CI/CD pipelines for AI Assistant, ML services, and traditional app services, ensuring seamless integration of diverse software components across Experience Cloud 

  • Design and manage cloud infrastructure (Azure, AWS, GCP) for scalable, secure, and cost-effective AI/ML operations 

  • Create resilient automation pipelines, orchestrate Kubernetes-based environments, and deploy microservices using Helm 

  • Automate bare-metal-to-cloud provisioning, deployment, monitoring, and incident response for AI-powered applications 

  • Build monitoring systems and automated alerts using Datadog, Prometheus, or ELK/Kibana; diagnose and resolve complex build and infrastructure failures 

  • Integrate security and static code analysis tools into pipelines; ensure compliance with security and privacy standards across all environments 

  • Collaborate with engineering, product, and ML teams to optimize workflows and infrastructure for rapid model iteration and deployment 

  • Implement infrastructure-as-code and configuration management best practices (Terraform, Ansible) 

  • Drive continuous improvement in reliability, performance, and developer productivity 

  • Play a critical role in scaling enterprise deployment workflows, refining automation architectures, and enabling rapid iteration across the Gen AI Experience Engineering organization 

 

What You Need to Succeed 

The three things that matter most for this role: 

5+ years in DevOps, SRE, or Cloud Infrastructure — and the depth of knowledge that comes with it 

Strong custom tool development skills — you build the automation others rely on (more than just scripting) 

AI/ML infrastructure fluency — you understand what AI/ML systems need to run reliably, and you use AI/ML to make DevOps processes smarter 

If those three describe you, here's what the day-to-day requires: 

  • Deep expertise with cloud platforms (Azure, AWS, GCP) and container orchestration (Kubernetes, Docker) 

  • Proven experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, Jenkins, Azure DevOps, etc.) 

  • Extensive Python automation skills and Kubernetes/Helm-based microservice deployment experience 

  • Strong scripting and custom tool development (Python, Bash, PowerShell) and Linux system administration 

  • Solid understanding of observability tools — Prometheus, Grafana, ELK/Kibana — and secure development best practices 

  • Experience supporting AI/ML workloads and data pipelines in production 

  • Solid understanding of security, compliance, and privacy in cloud environments 

  • Excellent collaboration and communication skills 

  • Startup mentality: you thrive in fast-paced, iterative environments 

 

Nice to Have 

  • Experience with infrastructure for large-scale generative AI or LLM-based systems 

  • Knowledge of Adobe Experience Platform or similar enterprise SaaS ecosystems 

  • Contributions to open-source DevOps or cloud infrastructure projects 

About Adobe

Adobe empowers everyone to create through innovative platforms and tools that unleash creativity, productivity and personalized customer experiences. Adobe’s industry-leading offerings including Adobe Acrobat Studio, Adobe Express, Adobe Firefly, Creative Cloud, Adobe Experience Platform, Adobe Experience Manager, and GenStudio enable people and businesses to turn ideas into impact, powered by AI and driven by human ingenuity.

Our 30,000+ employees worldwide are creating the future and raising the bar as we drive the next decade of growth. We’re on a mission to hire the very best and believe in creating a company culture where all employees are empowered to make an impact. At Adobe, we believe that great ideas can come from anywhere in the organization. The next big idea could be yours. 


Let’s Adobe together

At Adobe, we believe in creating a company culture where all employees are empowered to make an impact. Learn more about Adobe life, including our values and culture, focus on people, purpose and community, Adobe for All, comprehensive benefits programs, the stories we tell, the customers we serve, and how you can help us advance our mission of empowering everyone to create.

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Expected Pay Range:

Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several  U.S. geographic markets, and we pay differently based on those defined markets. The U.S. pay range for this position is $139,000 -- $257,550 annually. Pay within this range varies by work location and may also depend on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for the job location during the hiring process.

 

In California, the pay range for this position is $177,900 - $257,550

At Adobe, for sales roles starting salaries are expressed as total target compensation (TTC = base + commission), and short-term incentives are in the form of sales commission plans.  Non-sales roles starting salaries are expressed as base salary and short-term incentives are in the form of the Annual Incentive Plan (AIP).

In addition, certain roles may be eligible for long-term incentives in the form of a new hire equity award.

State-Specific Notices:

California:

Fair Chance Ordinances

Adobe will consider qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records for employment in accordance with state and local laws and “fair chance” ordinances.

Colorado:

Application Window Notice

Apr 30 2026 12:00 AM

If this role is open to hiring in Colorado (as listed on the job posting), the application window will remain open until at least the date and time stated above in Pacific Time, in compliance with Colorado pay transparency regulations. If this role does not have Colorado listed as a hiring location, no specific application window applies, and the posting may close at any time based on hiring needs.

Massachusetts:

Massachusetts Legal Notice

It is unlawful in Massachusetts to require or administer a lie detector test as a condition of employment or continued employment. An employer who violates this law shall be subject to criminal penalties and civil liability.

What you'll do

1Architect, build, and maintain CI/CD pipelines for AI Assistant, ML services, and traditional app services across Experience Cloud
2Design and manage multi-cloud infrastructure (Azure, AWS, GCP) for scalable, secure, and cost-effective AI/ML operations
3Create resilient automation pipelines and orchestrate Kubernetes-based environments with Helm
4Automate bare-metal-to-cloud provisioning, deployment, monitoring, and incident response
5Build monitoring systems and automated alerts using Datadog, Prometheus, or ELK/Kibana; diagnose complex infrastructure failures
6Integrate security and static code analysis tools into pipelines; ensure compliance with security and privacy standards
7Collaborate with engineering, product, and ML teams to optimize workflows for rapid model iteration and deployment
8Implement infrastructure-as-code and configuration management best practices (Terraform, Ansible)
9Drive continuous improvement in reliability, performance, and developer productivity
10Scale enterprise deployment workflows and refine automation architectures for Gen AI Experience Engineering

Requirements

5+ years of hands-on DevOps, SRE, or Cloud Infrastructure experience with multi-cloud platforms (Azure, AWS, GCP) and container orchestration at scale
Deep expertise designing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines using tools such as GitHub Actions, Jenkins, or Azure DevOps for AI/ML and traditional services
Strong custom tooling and automation development in Python and Bash beyond basic scripting, including Kubernetes/Helm-based microservice deployments
Production experience supporting AI/ML workloads and data pipelines, including MLOps workflows and model deployment infrastructure
Solid observability and security posture — building monitoring systems with Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, or ELK/Kibana and integrating security/compliance tooling into pipelines

Nice to have

Generative AI / LLM-scale infrastructure experience
Adobe Experience Platform familiarity
Open-source DevOps project contributions

Role overview

Role family
DevOps / Site Reliability Engineering
Level
IC3 — devops_sre
Experience
5–12 years
Type
Individual Contributor
Remote policy
Hybrid (3 days)
Visa sponsorship
Not offered

Tech stack analysis

LANGUAGES
PythonBashPowerShell
FRAMEWORKS
HelmAnsible
INFRASTRUCTURE
KubernetesDockerTerraformAzureAWSGCPGitHub ActionsJenkinsAzure DevOpsPrometheusGrafanaDatadogELK StackKibana
TOOLS
DatadogPrometheusGrafanaKibanaELK/ElasticsearchStatic code analysis tools

Green flags

6 items
Salary range fully disclosed ($139K–$257.5K US-wide; $177.9K–$257.5K in California) — rare and highly transparent for a large enterprisecompensation

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Benefits breakdown

HEALTH & WELLNESS
Medical coverage
Dental coverage
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Hiring insights

JD quality
9/10
Urgency
medium
Autonomy
high
Team size
small (2-5)

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Red flags

PRO3 items
'Startup mentality' and 'fast-paced, iterative environments' language at a large company can signal high-pressure delivery expectationswork life balance

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Interview insights

PRO
Rounds
5
Duration
4 wks
Difficulty
hard
Take-home
No

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Career path

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About the company

Adobe is the global leader in creative and digital experience software. Its products — including Photoshop, Illustrator, Premiere Pro, and Acrobat — are used by millions of creatives, marketers, and enterprises. Adobe also powers Experience Cloud, a suite of AI-driven marketing and analytics tools serving Fortune 100 companies.

HQSan Jose, CA, USA
Interview difficultyhard
Build vs Maintainboth
Cross-functionalYes