DevOps Engineer

• Burbank
• Hybrid
• Hourly salary: $90

Job Description

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As a Senior DevOps Engineer you will own the end to end release management lifecycle for monetization platforms defining release strategy environment management and deployment governance. You will ensure code configuration and data changes move safely and consistently from development through production maximizing platform stability and minimizing risk.

This role blends hands on DevOps engineering with AWS infrastructure and deployment leadership serving as a central coordination point across engineering architecture and program management to deliver reliable secure and scalable enterprise platforms.

Responsibilities
Define and own release management framework including deployment calendar release cadence quality gates and approval workflows.
Establish and enforce release governance processes ensuring all code/config changes are reviewed tested and signed off prior to deployment.
Coordinate with delivery leads solution architects and functional consultants to align release schedules with project milestones and business readiness.
Manage cutover planning go-live execution and post-release validation activities.
Serve as the single point of accountability for all releases across multiple environments and systems.
Design build and manage AWS DevOps pipelines for Monetization business applications and integrations.
Implement CI/CD automation for build package deploy and regression testing across environments.
Govern branching merging and build strategies in AWS based Repos or Git-based source control systems.
Collaborate with development teams to define automated testing and quality validation processes.
Maintain deployment scripts tools and templates to accelerate and standardize releases.
Oversee all environments - Development SIT UAT Pre-Prod and Production - ensuring consistency and version alignment.
Manage environment refreshes data masking configuration migration and database backups in collaboration with infrastructure and engineering teams.
Coordinate with AWS Infrastructure teams to manage resource provisioning scaling and monitoring for the AWS based data and web applications.
Ensure high availability and disaster recovery readiness through AWS-based resilience strategies. Follow principles of AWS Well-Architected Framework.
Collaborates well with the Studio Infrastructure Group to maintain company-wide standards for Cloud Engineering.
Partner with Solution and Technical Architects to define and implement DevSecOps best practices.
Act as the technical authority for release and deployment decisions - balancing speed quality and control.
Collaborate with AWS Service teams Snowflake vendor teams Managed Services and SI partners to resolve release issues and adopt platform best practices.
Provide mentoring knowledge transfer and upskilling for internal DevOps and support teams.
Ensure releases adhere to internal IT governance SOX GDPR and change management controls.
Implement automated compliance validation and reporting within AWS DevOps pipelines.
Maintain complete audit trails and release documentation for traceability and operational assurance.
Define rollback and contingency strategies for high-risk releases.
Monitor deployment metrics (frequency lead time failure rate) and drive ongoing improvements in release efficiency and quality.
Evaluate new AWS Docker Kubernetes related features proposing enhancements to existing toolchains and workflows.
Champion a culture of automation reliability and transparency in delivery practices.

Requirements
10 years of Python experience
5 years of experience with Kubernetes
5 years of Terraform experience
5 years of experience with Docker or Ansible for seamless deployment
3 years of experience with Splunk or Datadog

Preferred
AWS Certifications (Solution Architect DevOps Engineer Developer CloudOps)
Experience with MLOps
Managed Streaming for Kafka
Experience with deploying machine learning models on AWS SageMaker
Integration with AWS Lambda or CloudWatch

Technology
Python Kubernetes and Terraform
Docker or Ansible
Splunk or Datadog
Deep hands-on expertise with AWS DevOps (Pipelines Repos Artifacts Boards) for CI/CD automation and code deployment.
Strong experience with build tools for Java JavaScript Maven NPM.
Strong experience developing build scripts using the tools that integrate well with AWS.
Skilled in AWS infrastructure administration including resource groups networking security scaling and monitoring.
Interfacing with MySQL and Snowflake and can script tools to manage them move data and maintain scalable playbooks.
Strong skills in scripting various actions for deployment processes - data pipelines managing servers.
Strong experience in using and integrating with Git processes scripting with it.
Strong experience with managing backups multi-region hosting familiarity with various DR tools.
Strong grasp of ITIL change management DevSecOps principles and release governance frameworks.

Soft Skills
Proven experience managing end-to-end release cycles for enterprise-scale solution implementations or global rollouts.
Excellent communication and stakeholder coordination skills with the ability to manage global release calendars across vendors and regions.