DevOps Engineer

Sr DevOps Automation Engineer

Location: Dallas TX (Need Locals only)

Project Duration: 12 months Contract

Job Type: Contract

Work Arrangement: Work from Client Office – 5 days a week

Interview: 1st rounds Video interview, 2nd round In person at in Richardson TX (Need Locals only)

Key Responsibilities

DevOps Strategy & Automation

• Lead the design, implementation, and continuous improvement of DevOps best practices, including Continuous Integration (CI), Continuous Deployment (CD), automated testing, and Test-Driven Development (TDD).

• Design and maintain highly resilient, scalable, secure, and software-defined infrastructure platforms supporting telecom-grade availability and performance requirements.

• Automate operational processes to improve deployment speed, consistency, and platform reliability.

• Drive continuous improvement initiatives across infrastructure, deployments, monitoring, and incident response processes.

CI/CD Pipeline Architecture

• Design and implement end-to-end automated deployment pipelines using GitHub, GitHub Actions, and Microsoft SQL Server (MSSQL).

• Build and manage environment promotion workflows across Development, Staging, and Production environments with minimal to no manual intervention.

• Optimize deployment processes to enable rapid and reliable software releases.

Self-Hosted Runner Management

• Install, configure, and maintain Windows Server-based GitHub Actions self-hosted runners.

• Ensure high availability (99.9% uptime), secure network connectivity, performance monitoring, and operational health checks.

PowerShell Automation & Release Engineering

• Develop and maintain production-grade PowerShell automation scripts for:

Deployment

Backup

Rollback

Health checks

Validation

• Implement robust error handling, transaction management, auditing, and logging capabilities.

Jira, GitHub & Workflow Automation

• Integrate GitHub repositories with Jira to automatically link code branches and deployments to Jira tickets.

• Automate ticket lifecycle management, including status updates throughout the deployment pipeline.

• Enrich Jira tickets with deployment logs, build data, commit hashes, and deployment URLs.

Cloud & Database Technologies

• Design and support cloud-native solutions leveraging AWS, DynamoDB, Amazon Aurora, and Amazon Kinesis.

• Support database deployment automation and governance for enterprise applications.

Observability & Monitoring

• Implement and maintain monitoring, observability, and alerting solutions using Prometheus, Grafana, Kubernetes Monitoring, OpenTelemetry, Splunk, Zabbix, and Dynatrace.

• Proactively monitor production systems and rapidly troubleshoot performance, infrastructure, and deployment issues.

Notifications & Incident Response

• Configure real-time deployment notifications via Slack and email.

• Integrate critical alerts with PagerDuty for rapid incident response and escalation management.

• Participate in on-call support rotations and production incident management.

Security & Governance

• Implement DevOps security best practices, including branch protection policies, environment approval gates, GitHub Secrets management, GPG-signed commits, and role-based access controls.

• Ensure compliance with enterprise security and audit requirements.

Monitoring, Logging & Audit Trail

• Develop deployment auditing mechanisms, including deployment tracking tables within MSSQL.

• Build dashboards and reports to monitor deployment frequency, success rates, failure trends, and operational KPIs.

• Maintain comprehensive documentation for infrastructure, automation solutions, and deployment processes.

Disaster Recovery & Business Continuity

• Design and implement automated backup and rollback strategies, achieving a Recovery Time Objective (RTO) of under 15 minutes, a Recovery Point Objective (RPO) of under 5 minutes, and a 30-day backup retention policy.

• Develop disaster recovery runbooks and automate restoration procedures.

Performance Optimization & Operational Excellence

• Optimize deployment processes to reduce deployment times from approximately 30 minutes to under 5 minutes through automation and parallel execution strategies.

• Improve storage efficiency by implementing incremental backup solutions and reducing backup costs.

• Document operational runbooks, conduct knowledge transfer sessions, and lead continuous improvement reviews.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, or a related technical field; equivalent industry experience will also be considered.

• 10+ years of hands-on experience in DevOps, Infrastructure Automation, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), or Platform Engineering.

• Proven expertise designing, implementing, and managing enterprise-scale CI/CD pipelines.

• Strong scripting and automation experience with PowerShell, Python, Bash, and Groovy.

• Experience with configuration management tools such as Ansible, Puppet, or Chef.

• Hands-on experience with GitHub and GitHub Actions, Windows Server administration, Microsoft SQL Server, AWS cloud services, Docker, and Kubernetes.

• Strong knowledge of monitoring, observability, and logging platforms.

• Experience integrating DevOps solutions with Jira, Slack, PagerDuty, and other enterprise collaboration tools.

• Understanding of database deployment automation and release management methodologies.

• Experience supporting highly available production environments with strict uptime requirements.

• Excellent troubleshooting, analytical, and problem-solving skills.

• Strong communication and stakeholder management abilities.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience within the telecommunications, wireless networks, or network infrastructure domain.

• Exposure to large-scale enterprise deployment and automation frameworks.

• Knowledge of Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CloudFormation, or similar technologies).

• Familiarity with SRE principles and platform engineering practices.

• Relevant cloud or DevOps certifications (AWS, Kubernetes, Azure, GitHub, HashiCorp Terraform, etc.).

Success Metrics

The successful candidate will help the organization achieve:

• Less than 2% deployment failure rate.

• Automated deployment recovery and rollback capabilities.

• Deployment cycle time reduced to under 5 minutes.

• 99.9% platform and deployment infrastructure availability.

• Fully auditable deployment processes and compliance controls.

• Independent team deployment capability through automation and self-service tooling.