DevOps Lead Technical Consultant - F2F Interview

AppLab Systems, Inc; Charlotte (NC); On-site; USD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

AppLab Systems, Inc. is seeking an experienced DevOps Lead Technical Consultant to design, develop, and maintain enterprise-grade CI/CD platforms in a regulated environment.

You will lead release automation using Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI/CD, Harness, and Artifactory, while owning Python tooling across multiple teams. The role demands hands-on experience building deployment pipelines, Ansible playbooks, Liquibase-based database releases, and governance-driven release processes in

Qualifications

• 10+ years DevOps, CI/CD, Release Engineering, or Release Automation experience.
• Advanced Python scripting experience.
• Strong Ansible and Ansible Tower/AWX experience.
• Strong Git expertise beyond basic source control usage.
• Experience with Liquibase or comparable database release tooling.
• Experience supporting enterprise SDLC and release governance processes.
• Experience building automation solutions for consumption by multiple engineering teams.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI/CD, Harness, or equivalent platforms.
• Create pipeline-as-code solutions with conditional logic based on Git branches, tags, release types, and deployment targets.
• Implement reusable deployment workflows that support multiple application teams.
• Design and maintain automated release processes across DEV, SIT, UAT, and PROD environments.
• Implement approval gates, artifact promotion workflows, and deployment controls.
• Standardize deployments across multiple applications and business units.
• Develop Ansible playbooks from scratch.
• Design reusable Ansible roles and Jinja2 templates.
• Manage environment-specific configurations and inventory structures.
• Develop Ansible Tower/AWX workflows, surveys, and role-based deployment processes.

Skills

Python scripting

Git

Ansible Tower/AWX

Liquibase

CI/CD automation

Tools

Jenkins

GitHub Actions

GitLab CI/CD

Harness

JFrog Artifactory

Ansible

Liquibase

Job description

Job- DevOps Lead Technical Consultant

Location: Charlotte, NC (Onsite)

Duration- 1 Year

Face to face interview is must, Need Local Candidate

my client is looking for Azure DevOps Lead Technical Consultant - Charlotte, NC(Onsite). Please go through the requirement and let me know your interest.

Role Overview

We are seeking an experienced Senior DevOps / Release Automation Engineer to design, develop, and maintain enterprise-grade CI/CD platforms, deployment automation frameworks, and release orchestration solutions. The ideal candidate is a hands‑on engineer who has built automation using Python, Jenkins, Ansible, JFrog Artifactory, and Git-based workflows in highly regulated environments with formal release governance.

This is not a cloud infrastructure engineering role focused primarily on Terraform, networking, VPCs, or infrastructure provisioning. The primary focus is release automation, software delivery lifecycle management, artifact promotion, and deployment platform engineering.

Key Responsibilities

• Design and develop CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI/CD, Harness, or equivalent platforms.
• Create pipeline-as-code solutions with conditional logic based on Git branches, tags, release types, and deployment targets.
• Implement reusable deployment workflows that support multiple application teams.

Release Automation

• Design and maintain automated release processes across DEV, SIT, UAT, and PROD environments.
• Implement approval gates, artifact promotion workflows, and deployment controls.
• Standardize deployments across multiple applications and business units.

Ansible Automation

• Develop Ansible playbooks from scratch.
• Design reusable Ansible roles and Jinja2 templates.
• Manage environment-specific configurations and inventory structures.
• Develop Ansible Tower/AWX workflows, surveys, and role-based deployment processes.

Python Development

• YAML/JSON/XML parsing
• Regex-based routing logic
• Command execution using subprocess
• Release orchestration
• Build automation
• Configuration management
• Implement artifact publishing and promotion workflows.

Source Control Management

• Branching strategies
• Cherry-picking
• Release branching
• Git LFS

Database Release Management

• Build and maintain Liquibase-based database deployment pipelines.
• Create changelogs, changesets, rollback strategies, and context-based deployments.
• Work within regulated release management frameworks.
• Support change approvals and CAB processes.
• Ensure auditability, traceability, and compliance requirements are met.

Required Qualifications

• 10+ years of DevOps, CI/CD, Release Engineering, or Release Automation experience.
• Advanced Python scripting experience.
• Strong Ansible and Ansible Tower/AWX experience.
• Strong Git expertise beyond basic source control usage.
• Experience with Liquibase or comparable database release tooling.
• Experience supporting enterprise SDLC and release governance processes.
• Experience building automation solutions for consumption by multiple engineering teams.

Preferred Qualifications

• ACI
• Volante
• FIS
• CHIPS
• SWIFT
• ISO 20022
• Wells Fargo
• Bank of America
• Citi
• Capital One
• Experience in highly regulated enterprise environments.