DevOps Engineer - Gallup

OpenTalent; Omaha (NE); On-site; USD 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Gallup is seeking a DevOps-focused engineer in Omaha, NE to design and optimize release pipelines, drive automation, and implement cloud infrastructure for scalable delivery. You will partner with developers, architects, and security teams to establish best practices and reliability across environments.

You will build and maintain GitHub Actions CI/CD workflows, manage multi-region AWS releases, and advance observability and automation to keep systems stable and scalable.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in CS/MIS or equivalent experience.
• 2+ years designing/managing CI/CD, including 1+ year with GitHub Actions.
• 2+ years AWS cloud technologies (ECS, Lambda), IaC (Terraform) and MySQL.
• 2+ years scripting with Bash, Python or PowerShell.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with software engineering, infrastructure and security teams to streamline delivery, reliability and observability
• Design, implement and maintain GitHub Actions-based CI/CD pipelines that support diverse applications and services
• Drive adoption and continuous improvement of DevOps practices across platforms and environments, leveraging existing framework
• Manage releases across multiple AWS regions and environments, ensuring seamless delivery
• Solve complex infrastructure and deployment challenges with a focus on scalability, observability and automation
• Support teams working across multiple applications, stacks and languages, adapting to full-stack architectures and deployment flows

Skills

CI/CD design

Cloud infrastructure

Observability

Collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS or MIS

Tools

GitHub Actions

AWS ECS

Docker

Podman

Terraform

CloudFormation

Dynatrace

Job description

Accelerate how Gallup builds and deploys software by helping engineering teams deliver applications faster, more reliably and at scale.

In this high-impact role, you'll be responsible for designing and optimizing release pipelines, driving automation, and implementing cloud infrastructure that accelerates delivery and ensures high availability. You'll work closely with developers, architects, security associates and operations teams to establish best practices and bring stability and scalability to our engineering workflows.

You'll develop systems that power global insights — analyzing what the world is thinking and delivering employee engagement, strengths development and wellbeing solutions — among other high-impact projects. If you're a proven DevOps leader ready to fuel innovation and make a global impact.

What You'll Do

• Collaborate with software engineering, infrastructure and security teams to streamline delivery, reliability and observability
• Design, implement and maintain GitHub Actions-based CI/CD pipelines that support our diverse set of applications and services
• Drive adoption and continuous improvement of DevOps practices across platforms and environments, helping teams fully leverage our existing framework
• Manage releases across multiple AWS regions and environments, ensuring seamless delivery
• Solve complex infrastructure and deployment challenges with a strong focus on scalability, observability and automation
• Support teams working across multiple applications, stacks and languages, quickly understanding and adapting to full-stack architectures and deployment flows

What Makes You Stand Out

• DevOps foundation: You have hands-on experience with DevOps practices and are eager to continue building your skills in automation, deployment and cloud infrastructure.
• Technical curiosity: You enjoy learning new technologies, solving problems and understanding how tools and systems work together to support reliable software delivery.
• Experience with modern tools: You have experience with or exposure to tools such as GitHub Actions (CI/CD), AWS ECS, Docker and/or Podman, Terraform, CloudFormation and observability tools like Dynatrace.
• Collaborative mindset: You work well with developers and technical teams, ask thoughtful questions and contribute to shared solutions.

What You Need

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, MIS or a related field, or equivalent experience, required
• At least two years of experience designing and managing CI/CD solutions, with at least one year of experience with GitHub Actions, required
• At least two years of experience working with AWS cloud technologies (including ECS and Lambda), IaC tools (especially Terraform) and MySQL required
• At least two years of experience scripting with Bash, Python or PowerShell required