Job Title: Azure DevOps technical Lead
Location: Charlotte, NC (Onsite)
Duration: 6 Month s Contract
Job Description: We are seeking an experienced Senior DevOps / Release Automation Engineer to design, develop, and maintain enterprise-grade CI/CD platforms, deployment automation frameworks, and release orchestration solutions. The ideal candidate is a hands-on engineer who has built automation using Python, Jenkins, Ansible, JFrog Artifactory, and Git-based workflows in highly regulated environments with formal release governance.
This is not a cloud infrastructure engineering role focused primarily on Terraform, networking, VPCs, or infrastructure provisioning. The primary focus is release automation, software delivery lifecycle management, artifact promotion, and deployment platform engineering.
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Key Responsibilities
CI/CD Pipeline Engineering
- Design and develop CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI/CD, Harness, or equivalent platforms.
- Create pipeline-as-code solutions with conditional logic based on Git branches, tags, release types, and deployment targets.
- Implement reusable deployment workflows that support multiple application teams.
Release Automation
- Design and maintain automated release processes across DEV, SIT, UAT, and PROD environments.
- Implement approval gates, artifact promotion workflows, and deployment controls.
- Standardize deployments across multiple applications and business units.
Ansible Automation
- Develop Ansible playbooks from scratch.
- Design reusable Ansible roles and Jinja2 templates.
- Manage environment-specific configurations and inventory structures.
- Develop Ansible Tower/AWX workflows, surveys, and role-based deployment processes.
Python Development
- Develop Python automation solutions for:
o File processing
o YAML/JSON/XML parsing
o Regex-based routing logic
o Command execution using subprocess
o Release orchestration
o Build automation
o Configuration management
Artifact Management
- Administer JFrog Artifactory repositories.
- Implement artifact publishing and promotion workflows.
- Design environment-specific artifact lifecycle management.
Source Control Management
- Manage Git workflows including:
o Branching strategies
o Cherry-picking
o Merge conflict resolution
o Release branching
o Tag management
o Git LFS
Database Release Management
- Build and maintain Liquibase-based database deployment pipelines.
- Create changelogs, changesets, rollback strategies, and context-based deployments.
Enterprise Governance
- Work within regulated release management frameworks.
- Support change approvals and CAB processes.
- Ensure auditability, traceability, and compliance requirements are met.
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Required Qualifications
- 10+ years of DevOps, CI/CD, Release Engineering, or Release Automation experience.
- Advanced Python scripting experience.
- Strong Jenkins Pipeline (Jenkinsfile/Groovy) development experience.
- Strong Ansible and Ansible Tower/AWX experience.
- Hands-on JFrog Artifactory experience.
- Strong Git expertise beyond basic source control usage.
- Experience with Liquibase or comparable database release tooling.
- Experience supporting enterprise SDLC and release governance processes.
- Experience building automation solutions for consumption by multiple engineering teams.
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Preferred Qualifications
- Payments domain experience:
o ACI
o Volante
o FIS
o Fedwire
o CHIPS
o SWIFT
o ISO 20022
- Financial services experience:
o Wells Fargo
o JPMorgan Chase
o Bank of America
o Citi
o Capital One
- Experience in highly regulated enterprise environments.
