DevOps Engineer - Remote

DevOps Engineer

Location: Remote

Duration: Long-term Contract Work

Eligibility: US Permanent Eligibility to Work Required

Job Description

• Build a fully touchless CI/CD pipeline, enabling automated deployments from commit → production.
• Consolidate repositories into GitHub and standardize branching / governance.
• Implement quality gates, smoke/regression automation, canary deployments, and observability standards.
• Integrate pipelines with LaunchDarkly-led feature flag rollouts.
• Design, build, and maintain the automated CI/CD pipeline, ensuring zero-touch deployment flow.
• Develop integrations for automated testing (smoke, regression, functional, performance).
• Implement and support canary release patterns, deployment orchestration, and monitoring automation.
• Migrate existing services and pipelines to a unified GitHub and CI/CD architecture.
• Improve pipeline resilience, auditability, reliability, and rollback mechanisms.
• Partner closely with the Lead Developer driving LaunchDarkly adoption.
• Ensure compliance with DevOps best practices, quality gates, and deployment governance.
• Troubleshoot build failures, pipeline bottlenecks, and environment configuration issues.
• Promote continuous improvement of DevOps tooling and processes.
• Cross-collaborate with developers, architects, and QA to streamline delivery flows.

Qualifications

• Strong experience with CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, CircleCI, GitHub Actions, or equivalent).
• Proficiency with GitHub and modern repository workflows.
• Experience designing zero-touch / touchless orchestration pipelines.
• Strong automation experience in build, test, and deployment pipelines.
• Experience with containerization, orchestration, or service-based architectures (Kubernetes a plus).
• Solid understanding of:
• Smoke/regression automation integration
• Canary deployments and progressive rollouts
• Monitoring and observability tooling
• Proficiency with scripting languages (Bash, Python, Groovy, etc.).
• Ability to troubleshoot CI/CD failures rapidly with strong debugging skills.
• Knowledge of cloud platforms supporting CI/CD workflows.
• Experience with infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, CloudFormation, etc.) preferred.
• Proven experience contributing to large-scale DevOps or platform engineering transformation efforts.