The DevOps Engineer is responsible for bridging the gap between software development and IT operations by automating and streamlining the integration, deployment, and monitoring processes. This role ensures continuous delivery of high-quality software by maintaining infrastructure, managing CI/CD pipelines, and fostering a culture of collaboration between development and infrastructure teams.
Responsibilities:
Lead the implementation of automation and deployment strategies
Represent the DevOps function in sprint planning and retrospectives
Provide technical expertise in infrastructure, monitoring, and performance optimization
Collaborate with developers and QA to ensure smooth delivery pipelines
Collaborate on CI/CD integration, deployment strategies, and debugging
Coordinate automated testing and release validation
Align on server provisioning, monitoring, and incident response
Understand deployment timelines and feature readiness
Ensure compliance with security standards and vulnerability management
Support, troubleshooting, upgrades
Long term planning/road mapping, high level solution design
Infrastructure Scalability - Ensuring systems scale with user demand without downtime
Deployment Failures - Diagnosing and resolving CI/CD pipeline issues
Security Compliance - Keeping infrastructure compliant with evolving security standards
Cross-Team Coordination - Aligning priorities and timelines across departments
Golden Image Development and Management –Building and maintaining a library of server images
Blueprint Development and Management –Maintaining scripts and artifacts for standing up and tearing down our various solution/application environments
May be assigned to lead or support disaster recovery planning and business continuity initiatives.
Occasionally involved in proof-of-concept (PoC) evaluations for new DevOps tools or platforms.
Could participate in internal security or compliance committees to align infrastructure practices with regulatory standards.
Provides technical mentorship to junior developers and system administrators.
Offers best practice guidance to development teams on deployment strategies, environment configuration, and performance tuning.
High level of confidentiality is expected due to access to production systems, user data, security credentials, and deployment pipelines.
Must adhere to strict access control policies and data protection regulations.
Expected to proactively identify inefficiencies in deployment and infrastructure processes and propose automation or optimization solutions.
Contribute to internal documentation, playbooks, and knowledge bases to support team scalability.
May require on-call availability or remote support for international teams or systems.
Required Skills
Preferred Background:
3+ years in a DevOps, Site Reliability, or Platform Engineering role
Experience with infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, Ansible)
Exposure to Agile/Scrum environments a plus
Education:
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field (or equivalent experience)
Skills & Traits:
Proficiency in scripting languages (e.G., PowerShell, Bash)
Experience with CI/CD tools (Azure DevOps with VSTS a plus)
Experience with infrastructure automation tools (Morpheus, Terraform/Ansible)
Knowledge of containerization a plus but not required (Docker, Kubernetes)
Familiarity with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP)
Strong problem-solving and troubleshooting skills
Excellent communication and collaboration abilities
Passion for automation and continuous improvement
Strong understanding of networking concepts, Linux/Unix systems, and cloud-native architectures.
Must possess a continuous learning mindset to stay current with rapidly evolving DevOps tools and methodologies.
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