Title: Sr. DevOps Engineer
Locations: Atlanta, Dallas, Houston or Detroit (hybrid)
Type: Contract
Client: Financial
Interview Process: MS Teams
Must have reliable transportation and live within a commutable distance to one of the following cities: Atlanta, GA, Houston, TX, Dallas,TX, or Detroit, MI
Position Summary:
The Team Lead for DevOps oversees the design, automation, and
maintenance of CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure, and deployment processes
to ensure efficient software delivery. This role drives scalability,
performance, and reliability across cloud and on-prem environments while
promoting best practices such as Infrastructure as Code (IaC),
Continuous Integration (CI), and Continuous Delivery (CD). In addition
to technical expertise, the position requires strong leadership and
collaboration skills to mentor team members, partner with
cross-functional teams, and lead initiatives that enhance deployment
speed, system stability, and operational excellence.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
- Lead enterprise-wide release operations across Azure, MuleSoft, RPA,
and Salesforce, ensuring timely and high-quality deployments.
- Govern Salesforce deployments using Copado, enforcing compliance,
quality gates, and resolving merge conflicts.
- Coordinate release calendars, environment refreshes, rollback
strategies, and risk mitigation for all platforms.
- Manage and optimize production and non-production environments,
including Salesforce sandbox strategy and automated data seeding.
- Implement version control, branching, and tagging strategies in
Git-based repositories (Azure Repos, Bitbucket, GitHub).
- Design and maintain enterprise CI/CD pipelines in Azure DevOps;
integrate automated build, test, and deployment processes across
platforms.
- Drive infrastructure automation using IaC tools such as Terraform,
ARM templates, and Bicep, while enforcing security and quality
controls.
- Partner with teams to enhance pipeline performance, lead root-cause
analysis for deployment issues, and implement preventive solutions.
- Maintain detailed documentation of configurations, processes, and
troubleshooting; ensure releases meet quality, security, and
compliance standards.
- Mentor and coach team members, promote technical growth, and
continuously refine release management processes through automation
and efficiency improvements.
- Continuously improve and enhance release management processes
through automation, documentation, and efficiency improvements.
- Other duties may be assigned; responsibilities may change.
Qualifications and Competencies Required To perform this job
successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty
satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the
knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodation may
be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential
functions.
Required Experience:
- 5+ years of experience in IT engineering, with a focus on DevOps
role.
- Must have 5+ years of Copado experience
- Minimum 5 years’ experience leading teams
Education:
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Technology, or a
related field.
- Master’s degree in STEM or Business preferred.
Skills Required:
- Proficient in deployment using Copado, Azure DevOps, or Salesforce
CLI (SFDX).
- Proficient with Azure DevOps – pipeline creation (YAML/classic),
variable groups, service connections, and artifact management.
Exposure to API management, integration monitoring, and secrets
management (Key Vault, Vault, etc.). Familiarity with security and
compliance automation in CI/CD
- Deployment management experience of MuleSoft Anypoint Platform,
CloudHub, and Runtime Manager; CI/CD integration will be A+
- Source Control – Git, Bitbucket, or Azure Repos; strong
understanding of branching strategies (GitFlow, trunk-based).
- Infrastructure as Code (IaC) – Terraform, ARM templates, or Bicep.
- Scripting & Automation – PowerShell, Bash, YAML, Groovy, or Python.
- Knowledge of containerization Docker, AKS, or Kubernetes-based
deployment experience will be good to have
- Monitoring/Logging – Application Insights, Azure Monitor, Splunk, or
ELK
- Experience with integrating ServiceNow, Copado or Jira for release
governance and change tracking.
Qualifications Preferred:
- Proficiency in auditing software, bankruptcy case management
systems, and Microsoft Excel
- Demonstrated ability to identify discrepancies, assess risk, and
ensure compliance with regulatory standards.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills for preparing
audit reports and presenting findings.
Pay: $70.00 - $80.00 per hour
Work Location: Hybrid remote in Atlanta, GA 30332
