CI/CD Platform Engineer

About the role

MARS Solutions Group is seeking a CI/CD Platform Engineer for a Milwaukee, WI location with a technology/financial services industry leader. The client respects a traditional work week and often extends contracts for added job security and stability. The role involves building and operating a reliable, scalable, and secure software delivery platform that enables thousands of developers to efficiently and safely ship software. The successful candidate has solid technical fundamentals, strong interpersonal and communication skills, and a passion for continuous improvement.

Responsibilities

• Build, maintain, and support CI/CD platform services alongside senior and lead engineers.
• Own well‑scoped deliverables within the Development Platforms organization, escalating blockers early.
• Demonstrate an automation‑first mindset to ensure efficient and reliable delivery.
• Apply established security, compliance, and observability practices in the work you deliver.
• Build and maintain metrics and dashboards that track platform health against defined SLIs and SLOs.
• Troubleshoot production incidents, participate in an on‑call rotation, and complete assigned remediation follow‑ups.
• Participate in code and design reviews, document your work, and help teams adopt platform capabilities.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information systems, or a related discipline, or equivalent professional experience.
• 3+ years of hands‑on experience with cloud infrastructure and CI/CD.
• Working knowledge of CI/CD pipeline tooling and automation, such as GitLab CI (preferred), GitHub Actions, or Jenkins.
• Curiosity for understanding how complex systems interact and a willingness to dig into unfamiliar problems.
• Familiarity with software supply‑chain security concepts such as reproducible builds, SBOMs, and dependency hygiene.
• Clear communication skills, including the ability to explain your work to teammates and partner teams.
• Willingness to contribute to design documents and take an active role in architecture and technical reviews.
• Enthusiasm for experimenting with AI to boost team productivity, while applying learnings responsibly with attention to security and quality.
• Commitment to continuous learning and improvement.
• Relevant cloud (AWS preferred), platform, or security certifications are a plus.

Skills

• Building, storing, and deploying software artifacts (binaries, packages, containers) and supporting their lifecycle, security, and compliance.
• Monitoring application health and performance using tools such as Dynatrace, Prometheus, Grafana, or the ELK stack.
• Creating and maintaining cloud infrastructure as code (IaC) using tools such as Terraform or CloudFormation.
• Troubleshooting Linux‑based operating systems, networking, and applications.
• Supporting disaster recovery exercises and executing documented recovery procedures.
• Contributing to resilient, scalable, cost‑conscious systems and following deployment practices that manage release risk and minimize downtime.
• Developing services and scripts that interact with APIs using languages like Python or TypeScript.

About the company

MARS Solutions Group provides a range of opportunities for meaningful work by understanding that employment fit is a combination of people, process, and technology. We leverage our experienced and compassionate team to bring humanity to matching you with the right advanced technology role, and stay connected with you to help you attain your professional goals.