[Remote] Senior DevOps Engineer
Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Confidential is seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer for a contract role. The position focuses on designing and operating CI/CD platforms across hybrid AWS and on-premises environments, progressive delivery, automated testing, database automation, observability, reliability, security, governance, and compliance.
Responsibilities
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
Skills
- 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
- 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
- Docker image design, optimization, and security hardening
- Kubernetes (EKS + on prem) deployment patterns, scaling, and lifecycle management
- Helm based deployment standardization
- 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)
- Hands on expertise with Oracle and Client SQL Server (mandatory)
- Schema migration tooling and automated rollback strategies
- Data masking, anonymization, and controlled refresh automation
- 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
- Secrets management using HashiCorp Vault, AWS Secrets Manager, or equivalent
- Secure pipeline design with controlled credential access
- Compliance ready logging, approvals, and traceability
- 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
Benefits
- Opportunity to work with a dynamic team in a fast-paced environment
- Exposure to cutting-edge technologies and methodologies
- Supportive and collaborative work culture
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