Jenkins Engineer Lead Specialist

Job Title: Jenkins Engineer Lead Specialist
Location: Boulder CO
Experience: 12 Years
Employment Type: Contract
Interview Type: In-Person or Webcam

We are seeking an experienced Jenkins Engineer Lead Specialist with deep expertise in designing maintaining and optimizing CI/CD pipelines in large-scale enterprise environments. The ideal candidate will have extensive hands-on experience with Jenkins DevOps automation infrastructure-as-code cloud technologies and modern CI/CD best practices. This individual will lead complex build and deployment initiatives drive automation strategy and collaborate closely with development operations and security teams to ensure seamless software delivery.

• Lead the design development and optimization of end-to-end CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins.

• Build configure and maintain Jenkins clusters shared libraries and pipeline automation frameworks.

• Implement automated build test and deployment workflows for distributed applications across environments.

• Integrate Jenkins with various DevOps and cloud tools including Git Artifactory SonarQube Kubernetes Docker and Terraform.

• Manage Jenkins security configurations role-based access control credential management and upgrade planning.

• Troubleshoot and resolve pipeline failures performance bottlenecks and infrastructure issues.

• Define CI/CD standards governance models and reusable automation patterns.

• Collaborate with development QA cloud and platform engineering teams to support continuous delivery initiatives.

• Lead automation improvements and identify opportunities for eliminating manual processes.

• Provide technical guidance mentorship and support to junior engineers and DevOps teams.

• Support monitoring logging and observability of pipeline execution and build infrastructure.

• Prepare technical documentation and maintain operational best practices.

• 12 years of hands-on experience in DevOps engineering with a primary focus on Jenkins.

• Strong expertise with Jenkins Pipeline development (Declarative and Scripted) Pipeline-as-Code and Shared Libraries.

• Experience managing Jenkins controllers agents scaling distributed builds and performance tuning.

• Strong knowledge of Git Maven/Gradle Nexus/Artifactory and artifact management processes.

• Demonstrated experience with Docker Kubernetes Helm and container-based deployment pipelines.

• Hands-on experience with Terraform/Ansible or similar IaC tools.

• Strong scripting skills with Groovy Shell Python or similar languages.

• Experience integrating Jenkins with QA and security tools (SonarQube Checkmarx Fortify Selenium).

• Knowledge of monitoring tools such as Prometheus Grafana ELK or Splunk.

• Experience with AWS Azure or Google Cloud CI/CD environments.

• Excellent problem-solving debugging and analytical skills.

• Strong communication and leadership skills.

• Experience implementing GitOps workflows using ArgoCD or Flux.

• Background in microservices and cloud-native application delivery.

• Experience with enterprise security compliance and DevSecOps pipeline enhancements.

• Familiarity with ServiceNow JIRA Agile/Scrum methodologies.

• Knowledge of high-availability Jenkins design and disaster recovery best practices.