Enterprise Systems Engineer V ( DevOps) at Avalara
$126,000–$201,600
Jul 7, 2026
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Jul 20, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
This senior DevOps/platform engineering role centers on building and operating an enterprise-grade infrastructure for AI workflow automation tools, starting with n8n. The work spans container orchestration, CI/CD pipelines, IaC, secrets management, observability, and security governance across multi-environment deployments. It suits an experienced platform or SRE engineer comfortable owning production systems end-to-end and mentoring other teams on automation and AI-assisted operations practices.
Senior level · 5+ years · Remote · Full-time
Pay in the description: $126,000–$244,000
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 11,700 people nationally plausibly meet what this posting asks for (software developers). range 7,000–25,300
Applicant volume Moderate — A normal amount of company. The rare requirements below are what will separate a shortlisted application from the rest.
Rare in this occupation — lead with these, and say what you built with them.
Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $138,970 (middle half $107,524–$175,762). This posting is about at that midpoint.
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Jul 28, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (11)
The title is 'Enterprise Systems Engineer, playing a senior DevOps Engineer role' — the posting explicitly frames this as a Senior DevOps/platform engineering position, so advertised seniority is Senior.
SOC classification is Medium confidence: the role primarily BUILDS and SHIPS infrastructure-as-code, CI/CD pipelines, and platform tooling (pointing to 15-1252 Software Developers), but has a meaningful operational/systems-administration dimension (15-1244). The build-and-ship framing wins.
The cloud provider requirement names AWS, Azure, and GCP as alternatives — the JD requires strong experience with 'at least one major cloud provider'; all three are listed as acceptable, so AWS is the primary with Azure and GCP as alternatives.
The monitoring/logging stack requirement lists Sumo Logic, Splunk, Prometheus, and Grafana as examples ('e.g., … or equivalents'); Prometheus is used as the primary name with the others as alternatives.
GitLab CI/CD is named explicitly in the requirements section with 'or similar'; common substitutes are captured in alternatives.
Terraform is listed with 'or equivalent' in the requirements section — it is a hard gate on IaC capability; no specific named alternative is given beyond 'equivalent', so alternatives are left empty per the posting.
n8n is the central platform being operated, but the JD never explicitly gates candidates on prior n8n experience — it is the system they will build, not a prerequisite skill. Marked preferred.
The degree requirement states 'Bachelor's or Master's degree … or a related field' but does not explicitly state that equivalent experience is accepted; however, the phrasing is aspirational rather than a hard gate (no 'must hold' language), so the degree requirement is set to None.
Compensation ranges vary by state (CO: $126K–$201.6K; WA: $126K–$222.8K; CA: $126K–$244K; NYC: $139.2K–$244K). The widest range ($126K–$244K) is reported; the caller should note state-specific floors and ceilings.
The role is caller-declared fully remote; no metro is inferred.
Caller marked this a fully-remote role — scored against the national candidate pool.
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