Role : Senior Devops Engineer

Location : Remote

Type: Contract/Fulltime

Role Summary

Senior DevOps Engineer with 8+ years of hands-on experience designing, building, and operating end-to-end CI/CD platforms across hybrid environments (AWS and on-premises). Proven expertise in automation, reliability engineering, progressive delivery, security-by-design, and platform standardization to enable high-quality, low-risk software delivery at scale.

Key Responsibilities

CI/CD Platform & Environment Strategy

• Design, implement, and operate a standardized CI/CD framework supporting Dev, QA, PartnerLab, Staging, and Production environments
• Define promotion workflows with enforced quality gates and artifact immutability
• Establish PartnerLab as a dedicated integration and validation environment with no direct promotion path to Production
• Enable environment parity across AWS and on-premises systems

Progressive Delivery & Release Engineering

• Implement feature flags, canary deployments, blue-green strategies, and phased rollouts
• Enable automated rollback based on health checks, error rates, and SLO breaches
• Support release traceability from commit through production deployment

Test Automation & Quality Engineering

• Integrate unit, integration, regression, security, and performance testing into CI/CD pipelines
• Enforce automated quality gates prior to environment promotion
• Support manual validation workflows with controlled access, observability, and test artifacts

Database & Data Automation

• Automate database schema versioning, migrations, rollbacks, and validation
• Implement lower-environment refresh pipelines sourced from production data
• Enforce data masking and PII anonymization for all non-production environments
• Validate data integrity and consistency post-refresh

Observability, Reliability & Operations

• Define and enforce observability standards across logs, metrics, and traces
• Implement service health dashboards, alerting, and incident signals
• Integrate deployment health into automated release decisions
• Support on-call readiness, incident response, and post-incident learning

Security, Governance & Compliance

• Embed security scanning, secrets management, and access controls into pipelines
• Enforce least-privilege IAM, credential rotation, and artifact integrity verification
• Align CI/CD workflows with enterprise change management and audit requirements

Required Technical Skills

Cloud & Infrastructure

• AWS (mandatory): ECS, EKS, Lambda, RDS, IAM, CloudFormation, CloudWatch
• Hybrid infrastructure experience with on-prem VM, bare-metal, and internal networking platforms
• Terraform for modular, reusable, and policy-compliant infrastructure provisioning

CI/CD & Platform Engineering

• GitHub Enterprise & GitHub Actions (workflow design, reusable templates, runners, environments)
• CI/CD orchestration across hybrid AWS and on-prem topologies
• Artifact versioning, promotion, and immutability strategies

Containers & Orchestration

• Docker image design, optimization, and security hardening
• Kubernetes (EKS + on-prem) deployment patterns, scaling, and lifecycle management
• Helm-based deployment standardization

Testing, Analysis & Release Safety

• Automated testing frameworks for unit, integration, regression, and performance
• Static and dynamic analysis tools (code quality, security, dependency scanning)
• Feature flag management platforms (or equivalent internal capability)

Database & Data Management

• Hands-on expertise with Oracle and Microsoft SQL Server (mandatory)
• Schema migration tooling and automated rollback strategies
• Data masking, anonymization, and controlled refresh automation

Observability & Reliability Engineering

• Metrics, logging, and tracing using Prometheus, Splunk, New Relic, Grafana, CloudWatch, OpenTelemetry, and ELK
• SLO-driven alerting and deployment health evaluation (Uptrends & PagerDuty)
• Automated rollback and failure containment mechanisms

Security & Secrets Management

• Secrets management using HashiCorp Vault, AWS Secrets Manager, or equivalent
• Secure pipeline design with controlled credential access
• Compliance-ready logging, approvals, and traceability

Soft Skills & Delivery Expectations

• Experience operating in regulated or financial services environments
• Strong written documentation, runbooks, and architectural clarity
• Ability to collaborate with application, infrastructure, security, and QA teams
• Comfortable working in onshore enterprise delivery models

Core Technical Deliverables

Hybrid CI/CD Platform

• Reusable GitHub Actions pipeline templates for AWS and on-prem deployments
• Secure secrets integration and environment-specific controls
• Automated tagging, versioning, and artifact promotion

Infrastructure as Code

• Terraform modules for compute, networking, storage, and access control
• Automated provisioning of build agents and deployment runners
• Consistent configuration standards across environments

Database Automation

• End-to-end migration, rollback, and validation pipelines
• Automated lower-environment refresh with sanitized production data
• PII compliance enforcement and consistency checks

Validation & Quality Enablement

• Embedded automated test execution per environment
• Manual validation support with controlled access and observability
• Enforced quality gates before promotion

Observability & Release Safety

• Unified dashboards across AWS and on-prem platforms
• Deployment health alerts and regression detection
• Progressive delivery with traceable rollback execution