Senior Cloud DevOps Engineer II

Description:
Hybrid 2 in office 3 days remote in Washington, DC

Our client seeks a Senior Cloud DevOps Engineer II to administer, integrate, standardize, and support enterprise DevSecOps platforms. The role focuses on bringing existing and shadow IT tooling under approved enterprise standards while improving platform governance, security, reliability, scalability, and adoption. The primary environment includes GitHub, ServiceNow, JFrog Artifactory, JFrog Xray, CloudBees, and Jenkins. The position requires an experienced platform engineer or tools administrator with hands-on ownership of these platforms at scale.

This is a contract to hire opportunity. Applicants must be willing and able to work on a w2 basis and convert to FTE following contract duration. For our w2 consultants, we offer a great benefits package that includes Medical, Dental, and Vision benefits, 401k with company matching, and life insurance.

Rate: $95.00 to $100.00/hr. w2

JN -30

Responsibilities:

• Administer and support enterprise DevOps and DevSecOps platforms, including GitHub, ServiceNow, JFrog Artifactory, JFrog Xray, CloudBees, and Jenkins.
• Assess existing and shadow IT tools and develop plans to migrate, consolidate, integrate, or standardize them within approved enterprise platforms.
• Configure platform organizations, repositories, projects, users, groups, roles, permissions, policies, plug-ins, and integrations.
• Establish and maintain platform governance, security controls, operational standards, and administrative procedures.
• Design, implement, and support CI/CD capabilities across enterprise development environments.
• Integrate source-code management, artifact repositories, security-scanning tools, build platforms, ticketing systems, and deployment workflows.
• Configure and maintain artifact-management, software-composition analysis, vulnerability-scanning, and policy-enforcement capabilities.
• Implement access controls, credential-management practices, secrets-management integrations, and audit capabilities.
• Automate platform administration, provisioning, maintenance, compliance checks, and reporting.
• Monitor platform availability, capacity, performance, licensing, usage, and security.
• Troubleshoot complex platform, pipeline, authentication, integration, and deployment issues.
• Support platform upgrades, patches, migrations, backup procedures, and disaster-recovery planning.
• Develop technical documentation, platform standards, runbooks, architecture diagrams, and SOPs.
• Collaborate with application development, cloud, cybersecurity, infrastructure, architecture, and IT service-management teams.
• Provide technical leadership, user support, platform training, and knowledge transfer.

Experience Requirements:

• Senior-level experience in DevOps, DevSecOps, cloud engineering, platform engineering, or enterprise tools administration.
• Hands-on administration with several of: GitHub or GitHub Enterprise, ServiceNow, JFrog Artifactory, JFrog Xray, CloudBees, Jenkins.
• Experience managing enterprise development platforms including configuration, upgrades, integrations, access controls, governance, and production support.
• Experience designing, implementing, or supporting CI/CD pipelines in large-scale environments.
• Experience integrating code repositories, build tools, artifact repositories, security tools, and IT service-management systems.
• Understanding of DevSecOps principles, software supply-chain security, vulnerability management, and secure development practices.
• Experience automating administrative and operational tasks through scripting, APIs, or infrastructure-as-code tools.
• Strong troubleshooting, documentation, and stakeholder-communication skills.
• Ability to operate in an enterprise environment with formal security, change-management, and governance requirements.
• Preferred: advanced administration with GitHub Enterprise, JFrog Platform, CloudBees CI, Jenkins, or ServiceNow.
• Preferred: consolidation of decentralized or shadow IT tools into approved enterprise platforms.
• Preferred: GitHub Actions, Jenkins pipelines, CloudBees pipelines, or similar automation frameworks.
• Preferred: Terraform, Ansible, Kubernetes, Docker, or Helm.
• Preferred: artifact lifecycle management, SBOMs, dependency scanning, and open-source risk management.
• Preferred: integrations with SSO, SAML, LDAP, Active Directory, secrets-management platforms, and RBAC.
• Preferred: experience in federal government, regulated, or security-conscious environments.
• Preferred: certifications from GitHub, ServiceNow, JFrog, AWS, or Microsoft Azure.
• Preferred: exposure to Atlassian Jira and Confluence administration or cloud migrations.

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Skills, experience, and other compensable factors will be considered when determining pay rate. The pay range provided in this posting reflects a W2 hourly rate; other employment options may be available that may result in pay outside of the provided range.

W2 employees of Eliassen Group who are regularly scheduled to work 30 or more hours per week are eligible for the following benefits: medical (choice of 3 plans), dental, vision, pre-tax accounts, other voluntary benefits including life and disability insurance, 401(k) with match, and sick time if required by law in the worked-in state/locality.
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About Eliassen Group:

Eliassen Group is a strategic consulting firm that helps organizations reach further and achieve more through our technology, business advisory, and life sciences solutions. For nearly 40 years, we have combined exceptional people, deep domain expertise, and intelligent capabilities to expand our clients' capacity and accelerate meaningful outcomes. We are driven by a purpose to positively impact the lives of our employees, clients, consultants, and the communities we serve.

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