Senior DevOps Engineer

Richmond, VA - USA

Monthly Salary: Not Disclosed

Posted on: 8 hours ago

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

Job Title:Senior DevOps Engineer
Location: Richmond or Mclean VA (onsite)
Duration: 12 months

About the Role:

We are looking for a Senior DevOps Engineer to design build and operate scalable secure and highly available cloud infrastructure on AWS. This role will be responsible for enabling CI/CD pipelines automating infrastructure and application deployments improving system observability and supporting modern containerized workloads.
You will work closely with software engineers SREs security and platform teams to ensure fast reliable and secure delivery of applications into production.

Key Responsibilities:

Design build and maintain CI/CD pipelines to support continuous integration and automated deployments across multiple environments.
Develop and maintain infrastructure as code (IaC) using tools such as Terraform CloudFormation or similar.
Build automation using Python and scripting to improve reliability reduce manual effort and optimize operational workflows.
Implement and maintain containerized platforms using Docker and Kubernetes (or ECS/EKS).
Design and support deployment strategies including blue-green deployments canary releases and rolling updates.
Implement observability solutions using OpenTelemetry (OTel) and monitoring platforms such as Splunk and New Relic to ensure system health performance and reliability.
Manage and optimize AWS cloud infrastructure including networking compute storage and security components.
Define and enforce Git branching strategies and DevOps best practices across development teams.
Collaborate with development teams to improve build reliability test automation and release processes.
Participate in on-call rotations and provide production support troubleshooting complex infrastructure and deployment issues.
Ensure security best practices cost optimization and compliance standards are followed across environments.

Required Skills & Experience:

7 years of experience in DevOps Cloud Engineering or Platform Engineering
Strong hands-on experience with AWS (mandatory)
Proficiency in Python for automation and tooling
Strong experience building CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions GitLab CI Jenkins etc.)
Hands-on experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) Terraform CloudFormation or similar
Experience with containers and orchestration Docker Kubernetes (EKS preferred)
Strong understanding of Git branching strategies and source control workflows
Experience with observability and monitoring tools such as OpenTelemetry (OTel) Splunk New Relic
Solid understanding of deployment strategies: blue-green canary rolling deployments
Experience designing highly available fault-tolerant cloud systems
Strong troubleshooting and production support experience

DevOps core skill set: Python CI/CD and Automation Git branching strategies IaC Observability (OTel) and monitoring (Splunk New Relic) AWS (mandatory) containers and orchestration deployment strategies (canary blue-green)

Job Title:Senior DevOps Engineer Location: Richmond or Mclean VA (onsite) Duration: 12 months About the Role: We are looking for a Senior DevOps Engineer to design build and operate scalable secure and highly available cloud infrastructure on AWS. This role will be responsible for enabling CI/CD pi...

Job Title:Senior DevOps Engineer
Location: Richmond or Mclean VA (onsite)
Duration: 12 months

About the Role:

We are looking for a Senior DevOps Engineer to design build and operate scalable secure and highly available cloud infrastructure on AWS. This role will be responsible for enabling CI/CD pipelines automating infrastructure and application deployments improving system observability and supporting modern containerized workloads.
You will work closely with software engineers SREs security and platform teams to ensure fast reliable and secure delivery of applications into production.

Key Responsibilities:

Design build and maintain CI/CD pipelines to support continuous integration and automated deployments across multiple environments.
Develop and maintain infrastructure as code (IaC) using tools such as Terraform CloudFormation or similar.
Build automation using Python and scripting to improve reliability reduce manual effort and optimize operational workflows.
Implement and maintain containerized platforms using Docker and Kubernetes (or ECS/EKS).
Design and support deployment strategies including blue-green deployments canary releases and rolling updates.
Implement observability solutions using OpenTelemetry (OTel) and monitoring platforms such as Splunk and New Relic to ensure system health performance and reliability.
Manage and optimize AWS cloud infrastructure including networking compute storage and security components.
Define and enforce Git branching strategies and DevOps best practices across development teams.
Collaborate with development teams to improve build reliability test automation and release processes.
Participate in on-call rotations and provide production support troubleshooting complex infrastructure and deployment issues.
Ensure security best practices cost optimization and compliance standards are followed across environments.

Required Skills & Experience:

7 years of experience in DevOps Cloud Engineering or Platform Engineering
Strong hands-on experience with AWS (mandatory)
Proficiency in Python for automation and tooling
Strong experience building CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions GitLab CI Jenkins etc.)
Hands-on experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) Terraform CloudFormation or similar
Experience with containers and orchestration Docker Kubernetes (EKS preferred)
Strong understanding of Git branching strategies and source control workflows
Experience with observability and monitoring tools such as OpenTelemetry (OTel) Splunk New Relic
Solid understanding of deployment strategies: blue-green canary rolling deployments
Experience designing highly available fault-tolerant cloud systems
Strong troubleshooting and production support experience