Senior Devops Engineer

Global Financial Firm located in Rutherford, NJ has an immediate contract opportunity for an experienced Senior Devops Engineer Work Mode: Hybrid Pay rate range: $ 85.00 - $ 90.00 Negotiable based upon years of experience Responsibilities Support the engineering platform for ~20 product teams across CI/CD pipeline standards, container and Helm baselines, environment and release management, observability, and secure-by-default guardrails.Write and design automation and set standards for team adoption.Own and evolve shared pipeline templates and consolidate legacy Jenkins/Harness pipelines onto the strategic declarative platform.Maintain Helm chart and values conventions and standardize probes, resource sizing, autoscaling, config/secret injection, and rollback procedures.Manage promotion paths and zero-downtime release patterns on OpenShift/ECS and EKS.Utilize Ansible for Airflow/VM estate and Terraform-style declarative provisioning.Deliver reproducible developer environments and manage Artifactory repository policy.Drive Renovate rollout and remediation of vulnerable or EOL dependencies across all 70 repositories.Own AppDynamics, Prometheus/Grafana, and log aggregation standards across the platform.Define SLOs, alerting rules, capacity, and cost visibility frameworks.Lead production incident response, RCA, and permanent-fix follow-through for platform-level failures.Externalize secrets from code into CyberArk/Vault and enforce SonarQube quality gates and secure-coding checks in pipeline.Own image hardening, scanning, and audit evidence generation for regulatory review and compliance.Manage deployment, scaling, and operational support for Spark batch, Iceberg/Starburst, Airflow, and JupyterHub.Support GenAI/RAG service operations.Build and maintain golden-path templates for new services across all supported stacks.Ensure local build parity with CI and maintain platform documentation for self-service.Mentor engineers, conduct design reviews, and set engineering manifesto standards.Champion branch hygiene, PR etiquette, green builds, and SonarQube compliance across the estate.Represent the platform engineering function in architecture forums, risk governance, and regulatory audit engagements. Requirements Minimum 12 years in software/infrastructure engineering, with at least 5 years in a senior DevOps, SRE, or platform engineering role.Deep, hands-on Kubernetes and Helm experience.Expert container tooling with Docker, multi-stage builds, image hardening, private registry management.Cross-stack build expertise in Maven, Gradle, npm/Nx, and Python packaging.Pipeline-as-code proficiency with Tekton-style declarative pipelines, Harness, Jenkins, GitHub Actions or GitLab CI.Infrastructure as code and configuration management with Ansible and/or Terraform at production scale.Strong scripting and automation skills in Python and Bash.Artifact management and dependency governance experience.Observability in production with AppDynamics/Dynatrace, Prometheus/Grafana, centralized logging, and on-call incident command experience.Experience with secrets and identity management using CyberArk/Vault.Data platform operational exposure with Kafka, Spark, Airflow, and at least one distributed query/lakehouse technology.Proven legacy pipeline migration track record.Excellent written communication skills. Preferred Skills Financial services or regulated-industry experience.GenAI/LLM production operations experience.FinOps / cloud and on-premises cost optimization.Frontend delivery familiarity.Chaos engineering, DR and resiliency testing, performance and load engineering.Certifications: CKA/CKAD, AWS/GCP/Azure professional-level, RHCE.