Senior DevOps Engineer

Position Summary

We are seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer with 10+ years of hands-on experience designing, building, and operating enterprise-grade CI/CD platforms across hybrid environments (AWS and on-premises).

Key Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and operate a standardized CI/CD framework supporting Dev, QA, PartnerLab, Staging, and Production
• Define promotion workflows with enforced quality gates and artifact immutability
• Establish PartnerLab as a dedicated integration and validation environment with no direct path to Production
• Ensure environment parity across AWS and on-prem systems
• Implement feature flags, canary deployments, blue-green deployments, and phased rollouts
• Enable automated rollback based on health checks, error rates, and SLO breaches
• Maintain full release traceability from commit through production
• Integrate unit, integration, regression, security, and performance testing into CI/CD pipelines
• Enforce automated quality gates before environment promotion
• Support manual validation workflows with controlled access, observability, and test artifacts
• Automate database schema versioning, migrations, rollbacks, and validation
• Build lower-environment refresh pipelines sourced from production data
• Enforce data masking and PII anonymization for non-production environments
• Validate data integrity and consistency post-refresh
• Define and enforce observability standards across logs, metrics, and traces
• Implement service health dashboards, alerts, and incident signals
• Integrate deployment health into automated release decisions
• Support on-call readiness, incident response, and post-incident reviews
• Embed security scanning, secrets management, and access controls into pipelines
• Enforce least-privilege IAM, credential rotation, and artifact integrity checks
• Align CI/CD workflows with enterprise change management and audit requirements

Required Technical Skills

• AWS (mandatory): ECS, EKS, Lambda, RDS, IAM, CloudFormation, CloudWatch
• Terraform for modular, reusable, policy-compliant infrastructure
• CICD orchestration across hybrid AWS and on-prem topologies
• GitHub Enterprise & GitHub Actions (reusable workflows, templates, runners, environments)
• Containers & Orchestration: Docker image design, optimization, and security hardening; Kubernetes (EKS and on-prem) deployment patterns, scaling, and lifecycle management; Helm for deployment standardization
• Testing, Release Safety & Analysis: Automated testing frameworks (unit, integration, regression, performance); Static and dynamic analysis tools (code quality, security, dependency scanning); Feature flag platforms or equivalent internal capabilities
• Database & Data Management: Oracle and Microsoft SQL Server (mandatory); Schema migration tooling with automated rollback; Data masking, anonymization, and controlled refresh automation
• Observability & Reliability Engineering: Metrics, logging, and tracing with Prometheus, Grafana, Splunk, New Relic, CloudWatch, OpenTelemetry, ELK; SLO-driven alerting and deployment health evaluation (e.g., Uptrends, PagerDuty); Automated failure containment and rollback strategies
• Security & Secrets Management: 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 in regulated or financial services environments
• Strong documentation, runbooks, and architectural communication
• Proven collaboration with application, infrastructure, security, and QA teams
• Comfortable operating in enterprise, onshore delivery models

Company Information

We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. The national average salary range for this role is $120,000 - $165,000 in base pay, exclusive of any bonuses and benefits. This base salary range represents the low and high end of the salary range for this position. Actual salary offered will vary and may be above or below the range based on various factors including but not limited to location, experience, performance, and internal pay alignment. We do not anticipate that candidates hired will begin at the top of the range however, from time to time, it may occur on a case-by-case basis.

Other Rewards and Benefits

• 401(k) match
• Medical, Dental, Vision, Paid-Time-Off, etc.

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