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GitOps & CI/CD Engineer

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Eliassen Group

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Skills

Enterprise Software
Life Insurance
Software Configuration
Development Testing
Acceptance Testing
Recovery
Testing
Promotions
Startups
Management
Security Controls
RBAC
Analytics
Productivity
Documentation
Git
Version Control
Workflow
Docker
GitHub
GitLab
Continuous Integration
Jenkins
Terraform
Scripting
Windows PowerShell
Bash
Python
Computer Networking
Software Development Methodology
Release Management
Problem Solving
Conflict Resolution
Collaboration
Security QA
Continuous Delivery
DevOps
Kubernetes
DevSecOps
Cloud Computing
Grafana
Microsoft Azure
Microservices
Apache Kafka
Streaming
.NET
JavaScript
TypeScript
Computer Science
Software Engineering
Information Technology
Screening
Artificial Intelligence
Recruiting
Taxes
Insurance
Law
Communication
Gmail
Routing
Management Consulting
Life Sciences
SAP BASIS
Military

Enterprise Software
Life Insurance
Software Configuration
Development Testing
Acceptance Testing
Recovery
Testing
Promotions
Startups
Management
Security Controls
RBAC
Analytics
Productivity
Documentation
Git
Version Control
Workflow
Docker
GitHub
GitLab
Continuous Integration
Jenkins
Terraform
Scripting
Windows PowerShell
Bash
Python
Computer Networking
Software Development Methodology
Release Management
Problem Solving
Conflict Resolution
Collaboration
Security QA
Continuous Delivery
DevOps
Kubernetes
DevSecOps
Cloud Computing
Grafana
Microsoft Azure
Microservices
Apache Kafka
Streaming
.NET
JavaScript
TypeScript
Computer Science
Software Engineering
Information Technology
Screening
Artificial Intelligence
Recruiting
Taxes
Insurance
Law
Communication
Gmail
Routing
Management Consulting
Life Sciences
SAP BASIS
Military

Summary

Description:
Remote

Our client seeks a GitOps & CI/CD Engineer to design, implement, and optimize automation, deployment, and delivery platforms supporting enterprise application lifecycles. The role focuses on secure, observable, and repeatable delivery across development through production using a GitOps deployment model with Git as the source of truth. Collaboration with Software Engineering, Architecture, Infrastructure, Security, QA, and Operations teams will ensure consistent build, test, packaging, configuration, deployment, promotion, and rollback practices.

Due to client requirements, applicants must be willing and able to work on a w2 basis. For our w2 consultants, we offer a great benefits package that includes Medical, Dental, and Vision benefits, 401k with company matching, and life insurance.

Rate: $67.00 to $72.00/hr. w2

Responsibilities:

Design, implement, maintain, and improve GitOps deployment processes across enterprise environments.
Maintain Git repositories for Kubernetes application configuration, environment configuration, Helm values, manifests, and deployment definitions.
Manage and support GitOps tooling such as Argo CD for automated Kubernetes deployment and reconciliation.
Establish patterns for promoting versions through Development, QA, UAT, Staging, and Production.
Implement automated detection and remediation of configuration drift.
Maintain separation between application source, infrastructure code, environment configuration, and secrets.
Establish reusable GitOps templates and standards for teams.
Implement deployment approval and promotion processes per environment.
Maintain rollback and recovery processes for failed deployments.
Ensure production deployments are reproducible and traceable to approved source control changes.
Design, develop, and maintain CI pipelines to build and validate applications.
Develop reusable CI pipeline templates.
Automate compilation, dependency restoration, testing, security scanning, packaging, and artifact publication.
Manage container image builds and publication to enterprise registries.
Implement consistent versioning and artifact management.
Ensure immutable build artifacts and environment promotions.
Integrate automated unit, integration, security, dependency, and quality checks.
Optimize build performance, reliability, and feedback times.
Troubleshoot pipeline failures and reduce recurring delivery issues.
Support application deployment to Azure Kubernetes Service.
Develop Kubernetes deployment standards and reusable patterns.
Work with Helm, Kustomize, manifests, ConfigMaps, Secrets, Services, and Ingress or Gateway resources.
Support service mesh and ingress configuration where applicable.
Assist teams with containerization and Kubernetes requirements.
Ensure applications expose readiness, liveness, startup, and health checks.
Support zero-downtime and controlled deployment strategies.
Implement rolling updates, blue/green, or canary deployments as required.
Integrate delivery with Infrastructure as Code practices.
Develop automation with Terraform, PowerShell, Bash, Python, or similar.
Support Terraform-based Azure and Kubernetes infrastructure deployments.
Ensure source-control and peer-review practices for delivery.
Reduce manual configuration through automation.
Support CI/CD and GitOps integration with Azure services including AKS, ACR, Key Vault, Azure DevOps, Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, managed identities, and private networking.
Support private build agents and secured access to internal resources.
Work within enterprise hub-and-spoke networking and private-cloud models.
Establish secure patterns for managing configuration across environments.
Integrate Kubernetes workloads with Azure Key Vault.
Ensure sensitive data is not stored in source control.
Support certificate lifecycle and secret rotation automation.
Separate static configuration from environment-specific configuration.
Embed security controls in CI/CD workflows, including dependency and container image scanning, static analysis, secret detection, infrastructure configuration and policy validation.
Collaborate with Security to meet security requirements.
Maintain RBAC and least-privilege access for agents, systems, and service accounts.
Ensure deployment activities are auditable and traceable.
Integrate applications with monitoring, logging, tracing, and alerting standards.
Support OpenTelemetry, Grafana, Loki, Tempo, Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, and Application Insights.
Provide visibility into deployment status, failures, application health, and GitOps sync.
Assist with troubleshooting deployment and runtime issues.
Help define operational readiness for new services.
Develop and document enterprise CI/CD and GitOps standards.
Standardize repository structures, branching, pull requests, and workflows.
Define ownership boundaries across platform stakeholders.
Promote configuration changes through source-control workflows.
Participate in deployment and platform architecture reviews.
Identify opportunities to improve reliability, security, repeatability, and productivity.
Enable developers with templates, examples, documentation, and reusable components.
Assist with Docker, Kubernetes, CI pipelines, GitOps configuration, and local development.
Simplify developer workflows with appropriate enterprise controls.
Provide technical guidance and troubleshooting for delivery.

Experience Requirements:

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Technology, or related discipline, or equivalent experience.
Experience designing, implementing, or supporting modern CI/CD pipelines.
Strong knowledge of Git and source-control workflows.
Experience with Kubernetes and containerized deployments.
Experience with Docker and image creation.
Experience with CI/CD platforms such as Azure DevOps Pipelines, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, or Jenkins.
Experience with Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform.
Experience with scripting or automation using PowerShell, Bash, Python, or similar.
Understanding of cloud computing, networking, identity, security, and configuration.
Understanding of SDLC and release management.
Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving skills.
Ability to work across Development, Architecture, Infrastructure, Security, QA, and Operations.
Preferred: Experience with Microsoft Azure and deploying to AKS.
Preferred: Experience with Argo CD or other GitOps platforms.
Preferred: Experience with Helm and/or Kustomize.
Preferred: Experience with ACR, Key Vault, and Azure DevOps.
Preferred: Experience operating private Kubernetes clusters and private cloud.
Preferred: Experience with Istio or service mesh.
Preferred: Experience implementing DevSecOps scanning and policy enforcement.
Preferred: Experience with OpenTelemetry and cloud-native observability.
Preferred: Experience with Grafana, Loki, Tempo, Prometheus, Azure Monitor, or Application Insights.
Preferred: Experience with distributed systems, microservices, APIs, and event-driven architectures.
Preferred: Experience with Kafka or similar event-streaming platforms.
Preferred: Familiarity with .NET and modern JavaScript or TypeScript build processes.
Preferred: Experience establishing enterprise deployment standards and reusable templates.

Education Requirements:

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Technology, or related discipline, or equivalent professional experience.

Recruitment Transparency Notice

Eliassen Group values transparency in our recruitment practices. Please be advised that Eliassen Group utilizes artificial intelligence (AI) tools as part of its initial application screening and hiring process. You may receive email and SMS notifications from the Eliassen Virtual Recruiting Team (, ) inviting you to complete a brief voice screening as part of your application process. These tools assist our hiring teams in different ways, including but not limited to, assistance in reviewing application materials to help identify candidates whose qualifications most closely match the requirements of the position. All AI-assisted evaluations and responses are reviewed by human recruiters before any hiring decisions are made. The use of AI in our process is intended to support fairness, efficiency, and consistency, and Eliassen Group takes measures to prevent bias or discrimination in connection with its hiring practices. By proceeding, you acknowledge, agree, and consent to Eliassen Group's use of these tools, including AI tools, as part of the application and hiring process.

Skills, experience, and other compensable factors will be considered when determining pay rate. The pay range provided in this posting reflects a W2 hourly rate; other employment options may be available that may result in pay outside of the provided range.

W2 employees of Eliassen Group who are regularly scheduled to work 30 or more hours per week are eligible for the following benefits: medical (choice of 3 plans), dental, vision, pre-tax accounts, other voluntary benefits including life and disability insurance, 401(k) with match, and sick time if required by law in the worked-in state/locality.
If anyone reaches out to you about an open position connected with Eliassen Group, please ensure that you are working directly with us by confirming the following:

When you work with Eliassen Group, all email communication will come from an Eliassen.com address, never Gmail, Yahoo, etc.

Eliassen Group will never ask you for personal information (home address, bank account, or check routing number) until you have worked with someone clearly associated with Eliassen Group.

If you have any indication of fraudulent activity, please contact .

About Eliassen Group:

Eliassen Group is a strategic consulting firm that helps organizations reach further and achieve more through our technology, business advisory, and life sciences solutions. For nearly 40 years, we have combined exceptional people, deep domain expertise, and intelligent capabilities to expand our clients' capacity and accelerate meaningful outcomes. We are driven by a purpose to positively impact the lives of our employees, clients, consultants, and the communities we serve.

Eliassen is committed to building a diverse and inclusive team from a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills. We are an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer and all employment decisions are based on merit, performance, and business needs. Eliassen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, gender identity or expression, sexual preference or orientation, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, and related medical conditions), marital status, creed, religion, physical or mental disability, genetic information, military or veteran status, age, ancestry, national origin, citizenship status, prohibited criminal record inquiries of applicants and employees, or any other category protected by federal, state, or local laws.

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Employers have access to artificial intelligence language tools (“AI”) that help generate and enhance job descriptions and AI may have been used to create this description. The position description has been reviewed for accuracy and Dice believes it to correctly reflect the job opportunity.

Dice Id: cxelisen
Position Id: a1WUQ000001sAg92AE
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Company Info

About Eliassen Group

Eliassen Group is a leading strategic consulting company that provides business and IT services for our clients as they seek to transform and execute strategies that will drive exceptional outcomes. Leveraging over 30 years of success, we focus on professional services, talent solutions, and life sciences. Eliassen Group offers local community presence and deep networks. We are committed to positively impacting the lives of our employees, clients, consultants, and the communities in which we operate.

Eliassen Group is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, protected veteran status, or disability status.

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