NC - Senior DevOps & Automation Engineer

About the role

Lead the automation of infrastructure provisioning, builds, and deployments for NC FAST applications while ensuring reliable, consistent CI/CD workflows across environments. Collaborate closely with development, database, and architecture teams to continuously improve software release lifecycles and operational processes.

Hybrid: Onsite as needed in the Research Triangle.

Responsibilities

• Create, maintain, and troubleshoot Ansible playbooks and infrastructure-as-code configurations.
• Automate Linux OS maintenance, software patching, and environment provisioning.
• Build, manage, and scale containerized application workloads.
• Design and optimize CI/CD pipelines to streamline build, deployment, and database release processes.
• Partner with DevOps, architects, developers, and DBAs to enhance release reliability and automation best practices.
• Provide on-call support during evenings and weekends to meet business requirements.

Requirements

Required Skills

• 7+ years of experience automating Linux OS and software patches/upgrades across multiple environments using tools like Ansible.
• 7+ years of hands-on experience automating build and deployment processes, including database changes, using tools like Ansible.
• 7+ years of experience developing automation scripts, operational utilities, and workflow scripts using Python, Bash, or Shell.
• 4+ years of experience in infrastructure provisioning, configuration, and environment management using Terraform and Ansible.
• 3+ years of hands-on experience (branching, merging, configuring, and administering) with BitBucket or GIT source code management tools.
• 2+ years of experience building and packaging applications with Docker, and managing/scaling containerized workloads using Kubernetes.
• 2+ years of hands-on experience developing and managing CI/CD (DevOps) pipelines using tools like TeamCity, Jenkins, or Ansible.

Preferred Skills

• 2+ years of strong knowledge and understanding of Amazon Web Services (AWS) and cloud infrastructure.

Schedule

This position requires participating in after-hours and weekend on-call support as business needs dictate.