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Why UKG: At UKG, the work you do matters. The code you ship, the decisions you make, and the care you show a customer all add up to real impact. Today, tens of millions of workers start and end their days with our workforce operating platform.

Helping people get paid, grow in their careers, and shape the future of their industries. That's what we do. We never stop learning.

We never stop challenging the norm. We push for better, and we celebrate the wins along the way. Here, you'll get flexibility that's real, benefits you can count on, and a team that succeeds together.

Because at UKG, your work matters-and so do you. About The Team: UKG is looking for a Senior Software Engineer III - Eng to build and maintain our public/private cloud's PaaS layer (Platform as a Service). This is a specialized team that abstracts the complexities of Infrastructure, Networking, and Security requirements to ensure they are consumed in standardized ways for supporting Applications.

These services are built in Linux leveraging various technologies including Go, Ansible, K8s, GKE, Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and Openstack, to name a few. This position will partner with our Agile development teams to assure smooth integration and deployment of UKG software across the entire cloud infrastructure. This work is in the Engineering Acceleration group supporting internal product teams in their deployments.

The right software engineer background and experience will be with cloud technologies and a desire to master them. This position may perform work with the U.S. government therefore Must be a U.S

Citizen Existing or previous Government Security Clearance preferred, or ability to obtain appropriate security clearance is required About the Role Software Development: Write clean, maintainable, and efficient code or various software applications and systems. Dev Ops Model: Understanding of working in a DevOps Model. Taking ownership from working with product management on requirements to design, develop, test, deploy and maintain the software in production Develop and maintain infrastructure as code (IaC) using tools Technical Leadership: Contribute to the design, development, and deployment of complex software applications and systems, ensuring they meet high standards of quality and performance.

Project Management: Manage execution and delivery of features and projects, negotiating project priorities and deadlines, ensuring successful and timely completion, with quality. Write clean, maintainable, and efficient code and infrastructure scripts using Bash, Python, PowerShell, or similar languages. Architectural Design: Participate in design reviews with peers and stakeholders and in the architectural design of new features and systems, ensuring scalability, reliability, and maintainability.

Code Review: Diligent about reviewing code developed by other developers, provide feedback and maintain a high bar of technical excellence to ensure code is adhering to industry standard best practices like coding guidelines, elegant, efficient and maintainable code, with observability built from ground up, unit tests etc. Testing: Build testable software, define tests, participate in the testing process, automate tests using, tools (e.g., Junit, Selenium) and Design Patterns leveraging the test automation pyramid as the guide. Service Health and Quality: Maintain the health and quality of services and incidents, proactively identifying and resolving issues

Utilize service health indicators and telemetry for action providing recommendations to optimize performance. Conduct thorough root cause analysis and drive the implementation of measures to prevent future recurrences. Documentation: Properly document new features, enhancements or fixes to the product, contributing to training materials.

About You: Minimum Qualifications: 4+ years of software engineering experience Deep expertise in Python or Java development. 1 year+ of GitOps/DevOps experience or, building Infrastructure as Code pipelines or processes to support large teams Experience working with Kubernetes, Docker, and public cloud deployment platforms Experience designing and administering CI/CD pipelines Proven track record of leading and delivering large-scale, complex software projects. Proficiency with cloud technologies like Azure, AWS, GCP, and version control systems like GitHub.

Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field or equivalent practical experience Preferred Qualifications: Master's degree or PhD in Computer Science or a related technical field. Experience and deep understanding GitHub Actions, Argo CD, or similar GitOps and CI/CD platforms for Kubernetes application deployment, release orchestration, traffic routing, and lifecycle management or a readiness and deep interest to learn and master. Extensive experience with GitOps tooling for example GitHub Actions, leveraging Terraform and Ansible to create CI/CD pipeline automation frameworks and container-based deployments.

Extensive experience with software architecture and design patterns, including the ability to design and implement scalable, reliable systems in a DevOps model. Proficiency in building telemetry or observability as part of the development process. Strong understanding in DNS architecture and operations, including traffic management, split-horizon DNS, failover strategies, and performance optimization in large-scale distributed systems or a readiness and deep interest to learn and master.

Proven experience designing and operating service-to-service routing, including L7 traffic shaping, canary deployments, blue/green releases, and zero-downtime migration strategies or a readiness and deep interest to learn and master. Experience with API gateway and edge routing technologies (e.g., NGINX, Envoy, Kong, or cloud-native equivalents), including authentication, rate limiting, and policy enforcement or a readiness and deep interest to learn and master. Hands-on experience with TLS/mTLS, certificate lifecycle management, and secure service-to-service communication in a Kubernetes or microservices environment or a readiness and deep interest to learn and master

Deep understanding of Kubernetes operators, networking primitives, including Services, Ingress, Gateway API, and service mesh architectures (e.g., Istio, Linkerd), with hands-on experience operating them at scale or a readiness and deep interest to learn and master. Company Overview: UKG is the Workforce Operating Platform that puts workforce understanding to work. With the world's largest collection of workforce insights, and people-first AI, our ability to reveal unseen ways to build trust, amplify productivity, and empower talent, is unmatched

It's this expertise that equips our customers with the intelligence to solve any challenge in any industry - because great organizations know their workforce is their competitive edge. Learn more at ukg.com. Equal Opportunity Employer UKG is an equal opportunity employer

We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, disability, religion, sex, age, national origin, veteran status, genetic information, and other legally protected categories. View The EEO Know Your Rights poster UKG participates in E-Verify. View the E-Verify posters here.

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. Disability Accommodation in the Application and Interview Process For individuals with disabilities that need additional assistance at any point in the application and interview process, please email UKGCareers@ukg.com

The pay range for this position is $102,300 to $147,050. The actual base pay offered may vary depending on skills, experience, job-related knowledge and work location. In addition to base pay, employees may be eligible to participate in a performance-based bonus plan and to receive restricted stock unit awards as part of total compensation.

Learn more about UKG's benefits and rewards at https://www.ukg.com/about-us/careers/benefits.