Application Deployment Engineer — Release & Automation Lead

Michael Page; New York (NY); On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits from day one

Job summary

Michael Page is seeking an Applications Deployment Engineer for its Midtown NYC client. The role focuses on deployments, release management, and environment configuration, with Linux-based troubleshooting and SDLC oversight.

You'll deploy across dev, test, staging, and production, manage releases, and automate deployment pipelines. The position requires hands-on deployment experience, strong Linux skills, scripting ability, and familiarity with tools like Azure DevOps, Ansible, and Rundeck.

Qualifications

• 3–7 years of deployment/DevOps experience in relevant roles.
• Hands-on experience with deployments, releases, and environment management.
• Strong understanding of the full Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC).
• Experience with production deployments, release validation, rollback procedures, and deployment troubleshooting.
• Strong Linux administration and command-line skills.
• Shell scripting experience (Bash or similar).
• Ability to analyze logs to diagnose deployment issues and incidents.
• Experience creating and maintaining operational documentation and runbooks.
• Understanding incident management processes and structured problem solving.
• Familiarity with deployment and release automation tools such as Azure DevOps, Ansible, Rundeck.

Responsibilities

• Support application deployments across development, testing, staging, and production environments.
• Execute software releases, including validation, production verification, and rollback activities.
• Configure and maintain application environments and supporting infrastructure.
• Build and support deployment automation using Azure DevOps, Ansible, and Rundeck.
• Develop application control processes, including startup, shutdown, recovery, and restart procedures.
• Perform release readiness checks and post-deployment validation.
• Troubleshoot deployment, environment, and application issues via logs and RCA.
• Monitor system and application performance and identify risks and failures.
• Collaborate with engineering, infrastructure and support teams to improve processes.
• Create and maintain deployment documentation, runbooks and recovery procedures.
• Support production incidents and contribute to service improvements.
• Integrate applications with monitoring platforms like Grafana, Splunk, OpsRamp.
• Participate in disaster recovery and business continuity testing.
• Provision and configure servers and environments for delivery.
• Manage access, authentication, authorization and service accounts.

Skills

Linux administration

Shell scripting

SDLC understanding

Release engineering

Agile

Tools

Azure DevOps

Ansible

Rundeck

Job description

Michael Page is seeking an Applications Deployment Engineer for its Midtown NYC client. The role focuses on deployments, release management, and environment configuration, with Linux-based troubleshooting and SDLC oversight.

You'll deploy across dev, test, staging, and production, manage releases, and automate deployment pipelines. The position requires hands-on deployment experience, strong Linux skills, scripting ability, and familiarity with tools like Azure DevOps, Ansible, and Rundeck.