CI/CD DevOps Engineer

Jobtailor; Mississippi; On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Jobtailor is seeking a seasoned DevOps/Build Engineer to design and maintain scalable CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, Jenkins, and related tools. You will implement pipeline-as-code, automate validations and testing, and drive secure, compliant releases across multi‑environment SaaS platforms.

You will work with Terraform, Ansible, and cloud platforms (Azure preferred) while integrating observability and cost‑optimization strategies.

Qualifications

• 5–10 years of hands-on experience in build engineering, release engineering, DevOps, platform engineering, or cloud engineering.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, Jenkins, or similar platforms.
• Automate build validation, unit and smoke testing, artifact versioning, and quality gates.
• Troubleshoot build failures, pipeline performance issues, and flaky automation.
• Automate deployments across development, test, staging, UAT, and production environments.
• Implement feature flags, canary releases, blue/green deployments, rollback procedures, and automated release gates.
• Integrate DevSecOps tooling and software supply chain controls into CI/CD pipelines.

Skills

CI/CD tooling

Infrastructure-as-Code

Cloud platforms

Docker

Kubernetes

PowerShell

Bash

Python

Automation

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

Dynatrace

Datadog

Splunk

Prometheus

Grafana

GitHub Actions

Azure DevOps

Jenkins

Job description

• Design, build, and maintain CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, Jenkins, or similar platforms
• Implement pipeline-as-code, reusable deployment templates, and standardized build patterns
• Automate build validation, unit and smoke testing, artifact versioning, and quality gates
• Troubleshoot build failures, pipeline performance issues, and flaky automation
• Optimize pipeline speed, reliability, and cost
• Manage build systems, dependencies, artifact repositories, versioning, promotion workflows, and retention policies
• Maintain Docker container image build processes, base images, and image scanning
• Automate deployments across development, test, staging, UAT, and production environments
• Implement feature flags, canary releases, blue/green deployments, rollback procedures, and automated release gates
• Support multi-service, multi-environment, and multi-tenant SaaS releases
• Improve visibility into release status, build versions, and deployment dependencies
• Integrate DevSecOps tooling, software supply chain controls, artifact signing, access governance, and approval workflows
• Ensure auditable and traceable builds and releases aligned with SOC 2, HIPAA, NIST, or similar frameworks
• Remediate pipeline security findings and maintain compliant build tooling
• Instrument build and release systems with metrics, logging, and alerting
• Maintain operational runbooks and participate in incident response for delivery-related issues
• Analyze pipeline and deployment data to identify bottlenecks and improve delivery performance
• Monitor and optimize build infrastructure and automation platform cost and utilization
• Collaborate with development, QA, security, and operations teams

Requirements

• 5–10 years of hands‑on experience in build engineering, release engineering, DevOps, platform engineering, or cloud engineering
• Deep practical expertise with CI/CD tooling such as GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD, or comparable platforms
• Strong experience with Infrastructure-as-Code and automation technologies such as Terraform, ARM/Bicep, Ansible, PowerShell, or similar tools
• Working knowledge of Docker and Kubernetes
• Strong experience with cloud platforms, preferably Microsoft Azure; AWS or Google Cloud experience is valuable
• Proficiency in PowerShell, Bash, Python, or similar scripting and automation languages
• Experience with build systems, dependency management, artifact repositories, and versioning strategies in large‑scale SaaS environments
• Ability to troubleshoot complex build, deployment, and environment issues independently
• Strong collaboration and communication skills for distributed development, QA, security, and operations teams
• Experience in regulated environments such as healthcare, HIPAA, SOC 2, NIST, or similar compliance‑driven industries preferred
• Experience with internal developer platforms or self‑service engineering capabilities preferred
• Familiarity with feature management and progressive delivery tools such as LaunchDarkly preferred
• Experience with observability platforms such as Dynatrace, Datadog, Splunk, Prometheus, Grafana, or similar tools preferred
• Experience integrating security controls, compliance validation, and software supply chain protection into CI/CD pipelines preferred
• Background using AI‑assisted development, code review, pipeline optimization, or automation tools preferred
• Employment visa sponsorship is not available

Core Competencies

Demonstrates extensive expertise in CI/CD pipeline design and implementation, utilizing tools such as GitHub Actions and Azure DevOps. Proficient in automation technologies, build systems, and compliance frameworks, ensuring efficient and secure software delivery.

Highest-signal resume keywords

• CI/CD Pipeline Development
• Infrastructure-as-Code
• Cloud Platform Expertise
• Build Engineering
• Compliance Standards Knowledge

ATS Optimization Keywords

Hard Skills

• CI/CD Tooling
• Infrastructure-as-Code
• Docker
• Kubernetes
• PowerShell
• Bash
• Python
• Terraform
• Azure DevOps
• Jenkins

Soft Skills

• Collaboration
• Communication

Industry Keywords

• SOC 2
• HIPAA
• NIST
• SaaS
• DevSecOps

Tools & Technologies

• GitHub Actions
• Azure DevOps
• Jenkins
• Terraform
• Ansible
• Dynatrace
• Datadog
• Splunk
• Prometheus
• Grafana