Opening - DevOps Engineer - Remote - Contract (W2)

Job Title: Senior DevOps Engineer

Location: TEXAS REMOTE: This is a WFH position; preference given to Dallas, Austin, San Antonio, Houston locales.

***May be required to come into the main office located in Huntsville, Texas, on occasion ***

Type: W2

POSITION DESCRIPTION:

PROJECT SCOPE

The Agency requires a Senior DevOps Automation Engineer to design and implement a standardized CI/CD pipeline and Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) strategy for Microsoft Power Platform solutions. This role will establish automated build and release pipelines using Azure DevOps (r equivalent), enabling secure and repeatable promotion of solutions across development, test and production environments.

This position will be responsible for configuring source control integration, solution packaging (managed/unmanaged), and deployment automation, as well as implementing service principals and environment security required for unattended deployments. In addition, the resource will define governance standards, branching strategies, and release management processes to ensure consistency, compliance, and scalability of Poer Platform implementations.

At least 6-years of experience in CI/CD development, deployment and maintenance in a highly complex technical environment.

REQUIRED SKILLS

• Strong experience designing and implementing CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Enterprise and/or Azure DevOps
• Hands-on experience building automated deployment pipelines for Microsoft Power Platform, including:
• Power Apps (Canvas and Model Driven)
• Power Automate
• Dataverse
• Solution packaging (Managed/unmanaged) and environment promotion
• Experience implementing ALM strategies for Power Platform using tools such as:
• Power Platform CLI (PAC CLI)
• Solution Checker
• Environment variables and connection references
• Strong experience with Azure services CI/CD, including:
• Azure Data Factory (ADF pipeline deployment)
• ARM/Bicep or Terraform for infrastructure as code
• Azure resource deployment and configuration
• Experience with source control and branching strategies
• Git (branching, pull request, release strategies)
• Repro standardization and migration (Azure DevOps -> GitHub)
• Experience designing secure, automated deployments:
• Service principals and managed identities
• Secret management (Key Vault or equivalent)
• Role-based access control (RBAC)
• Experience building reusable pipeline templates and automation frameworks
• Strong Scripting experience (PowerShell, Bash, or similar)
• Experience establishing DevOps governance, standards, and best practices across multiple teams

PREFERRED SKILLS

• Experience migrating pipelines from Azure DevOps to GitHub Enterprise
• Experience with GitHub Actions and workflow automation
• Experience with test automation for Power Platform and Azure Services
• Familiarity with enterprise security and compliance requirements