Remote Senior Data DevOps Engineer: Cloud CI/CD & IaC

First Citizens Bank; Raleigh (NC); Remote; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

First Citizens Bank is seeking an experienced DevOps Engineer to design, build, and maintain CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure automation for our data engineering platform. This remote role supports AWS and Azure environments and requires strong IaC and deployment discipline.

You will develop Python scripts, automate deployment workflows, and enable data engineers to deploy reliably at scale. Collaboration with security, SRE, and engineering teams is essential to ensure compliance and

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree plus 4 years in DevOps engineering, data technologies, and cloud platforms.
• HS Diploma plus 8 years in DevOps, data tech, cloud platforms.
• Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines and IaC workflows.
• Proficient with Terraform, Ansible/Puppet and cloud platforms (AWS/Azure).
• Strong Python scripting and automation development skills.
• Knowledge of on-premises and cloud integrations with Snowflake, DBT, and related tools.
• Familiarity with monitoring/logging tools and enterprise security/compliance requirements.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, test, and deploy enterprise CI/CD pipelines across multiple environments.
• Provision and manage IaC frameworks for Snowflake, AWS, DBT, and Qlik infrastructure with Terraform.
• Develop scripts/tools for automation, and build integrations between CI/CD systems and cloud platforms.
• Implement monitoring, logging, and observability with Splunk, Dynatrace, CloudWatch for reliability.
• Automate deployment frameworks for Airflow DAGs and dbt Cloud transformations with canary rollout strategies.
• Design backup and disaster recovery strategies for data infrastructure and automate testing of backups.
• Maintain documentation, runbooks, and operational procedures; mentor and train teammates.

Skills

CI/CD frameworks

Python scripting

Cloud concepts

Linux/Unix proficiency

Networking fundamentals

Education

Bachelor's Degree + 4 years DevOps/Cloud

HS Diploma + 8 years DevOps/Cloud

Tools

GitLab

Azure DevOps

Jenkins

Terraform

Ansible

Puppet

GitHub

Snowflake

dbt Cloud

AWS

Azure

CloudWatch

Splunk

Job description

First Citizens Bank is seeking an experienced DevOps Engineer to design, build, and maintain CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure automation for our data engineering platform. This remote role supports AWS and Azure environments and requires strong IaC and deployment discipline.

You will develop Python scripts, automate deployment workflows, and enable data engineers to deploy reliably at scale. Collaboration with security, SRE, and engineering teams is essential to ensure compliance and