DevOps Engineer

Job Title: DevOps Engineer

Location: Charlotte, NC (Onsite)

Employment Type: Full-time

Job Description:

Must Have Technical/Functional Skills

• Primary Skill: Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, GitLab CI, CircleCI
• Secondary: Unix shell scripting, SQL, Docker and Kubernetes
• Experience: 4 to 7 years

Roles & Responsibilities

Position Summary

The DevOps Engineer will design, implement, and operate secure, scalable CI/CD pipelines and platform automation to accelerate delivery while ensuring reliability, observability, and compliance. The role partners closely with engineering teams to standardize build/release processes, implement infrastructure as code (IaC), and enforce controls required in a regulated environment.

Required Qualifications

• 47+ years in DevOps, SRE, Platform Engineering, or related software engineering roles.
• Hands-on experience building CI/CD pipelines using one or more: Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, GitLab CI, CircleCI, or equivalent.
• Proficiency with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform preferred; Bicep/CloudFormation/Pulumi a plus) and configuration management (Ansible/Chef).
• Strong experience with cloud platforms (Azure preferred; AWS/Google Cloud Platform acceptable), including networking, IAM/RBAC, key management, and container services.
• Containerization & orchestration: Docker and Kubernetes (AKS/EKS/GKE), Helm/Kustomize, ingress, secrets, autoscaling, and rollout strategies (blue/green, canary).
• DevSecOps practices: integrate SAST/DAST/SCA, container image scanning/signing, SBOM, and policy enforcement into pipelines.
• Observability: implement logging, metrics, and tracing (e.g., PrometheGrafana, Azure Monitor, CloudWatch, Datadog, Splunk, OpenTelemetry).
• Strong scripting in Python and/or Bash/PowerShell; Git workflows (PRs, code review, branch policies).
• Experience aligning releases with change management, audit needs, and separation of duties in a regulated environment.
• Excellent troubleshooting skills across build failures, deployment issues, and runtime incidents; strong communication and stakeholder management.

Desired Qualifications

• Experience with policy-as-code (OPA/Gatekeeper, Kyverno, Conftest) and FinOps/cost optimization in CI/CD and runtime.
• Expertise in artifact management (Artifactory, Nexus, Azure Artifacts), package signing, and supply chain security (SLSA, Sigstore, Cosign).
• Experience implementing golden images, immutable infrastructure, and GitOps (Argo CD, Flux).
• Hands-on with service mesh (Istio/Linkerd), API gateways, and zero-trust patterns.
• Familiarity with database release automation, data migrations, and schema versioning (Liquibase/Flyway).
• Knowledge of workflow schedulers and orchestrators (Airflow/Prefect/Temporal) for data and ML workloads.
• Prior experience in financial services or other regulated industries with strong governance expectations.