DevOps Engineer - Remote - Contract - No H1B

Company: AAPRO Consulting
Location: Dallas
Posted on: June 4, 2025

Job Description:

Working in an agile software development environment, the DevOps / CI-CD Automation Engineer is responsible for automating build-test-deploy lifecycle for wide variety of applications/services in the cloud. As part of the Advanced Solutions Group team you will focus on enhancing platform services and contributing code to multiple automation projects. You will also utilize engineering and programming skills focused on enabling a DevOps model, participating with Architecture, Operations and Engineering teams within Agile processes. The role will include systems and solution design within the existing architecture, as well as design/implementation of improvements to meet business needs. The Senior DevOps engineer will work collaboratively with the Development, IT Operations, and QA teams both onshore and offshore in implementing software configuration management best practices to accelerate and optimize delivery methodologies.

Interested in this role You can find all the relevant information in the description below.

Responsibilities:

- Responsible for maintaining the tools and processes for a large, enterprise level system in a fast-paced, agile, service-oriented environment.

- Good understanding of the full stack software development (databases, services, REST, client-side, user interface).

- Work with team members to manage and administer enterprise-wide development tools

- Automate build, packaging, testing and deployment processes using tools and/or scripts.

- Responsible for continuous integration and continuous deployment for multiple initiatives across all products.

- Work with Configuration team to enable regular, independent audits of environment profiles, and build and release activities.

- Work with production release team to identify and implement methodology for highly flexible and responsive releases (weekly, biweekly, monthly and bimonthly).

- Automate end to end build processes, patching, and production product deployments.

- Structure and maintain the software configuration management to build very secure and high availability systems.

- Scale infrastructure to meet rapidly increasing demand. Monitor site stability and performance and troubleshoot site issues.

- Build and maintain a resilient, secure, and efficient SaaS application platform to meet established SLAs.

- Provide support to development teams that use the automated infrastructure. Collaborate with developers to bring new features and services into production.

- Working closely with Delivery teams to engineer solutions for production/enterprise automation efforts across all lines of business within Enterprise Client Engineering.

- Work with various stakeholders to set-up required lower level and production environments including the deployment of applications, artifacts and tools.

- Review deployment procedures and execute deployments that ensure environment reproducibility.

- Incorporate software testing automation at multiple levels (component, configuration item, subsystem, system) and monitor results.

- Emphasize automation, implement processes, procedures and best practice guidelines for code management.

- Manage cross-functional requirements working with Engineering, Product, Services, and other departments.

- Guide teams with DevOps best practices, including improved scalability, performance, reliability, and speed to market.

- Interface with leadership, Group Leads, and Lead Architects to convey infrastructure requirements, plan, and schedule deployment of tasks, and resolve any issues that impact deployment of the Application delivery systems.

- Complete all responsibilities as outlined on annual Performance Plan.

- Complete all special projects and other duties as assigned.

- Must be able to perform duties with or without reasonable accommodation.



Requirements:

- Master's or Bachelor's in Computer Science or equivalent.

- 5+ years of work experience in the field or in a related area with proven enterprise level experience in a software configuration management role, application stack deployment and support experience, and experience being a member of a software project life cycle team.

- 2+ years of hands on experience deploying/monitoring cloud-based applications in Azure or AWS. Experience in Microsoft Azure preferred.

- Experience with Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery (CI/CD).

- Experience with Deployment Automation & Orchestration platform (Jenkins).

- Experience with collaborative version control systems (Git/ GitHub/ Subversion/ Bitbucket).

- Experience with configuration management tools like Chef, Ansible, Puppet.

- Knowledge of basic Java/Python deployment constructs in both web and thick client applications.

- Experience with virtualization technologies.

- CI/CD Project Management Tools: JIRA, Confluence

- Experience with cloud computing and container solutions such as Amazon EC2, Docker.

- Experience with managing code repositories and best practices as it relates to DevOps.

- Experience in Orchestration platform (Kubernetes, Mesos, Swarm)

- Experience with scripting languages (Perl, Python) to develop automation tools.

- Experience developing applications embracing Agile principles.

- Strong understanding of software project release automation.

- Familiarity with Enterprise Oracle DB deployments.

- Professional with ability to properly handle confidential information.

- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

- Ability to learn and quickly absorb new material, Strong troubleshooting skills.

- Excellent verbal and written communication skills

- Strong organizational skills and adaptive capacity for rapidly changing priorities and workloads

- Ability to work well independently and maintain focus in a highly dynamic work environment.
Remote working/work at home options are available for this role.

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