Senior DevOps Lead: Continuous Delivery & Release Automation

NinjaOne; Town of Texas (WI); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision

401(k)

Unlimited PTO

Hybrid remote

Job summary

NinjaOne is seeking a Principal DevOps Engineer to lead our end-to-end deployment and release automation. You will design and own scalable CD pipelines, progressive delivery, and automated rollback across regions in a cloud-native, IaC environment.

You will work closely with Engineering, QA, Security, SRE, and Architecture to evolve deployment patterns, implement health checks, and drive reliability at scale.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in DevOps, Release Engineering, Platform Engineering, Software Engineering, or a related technical discipline.
• Hands-on experience designing and operating Continuous Delivery and deployment automation platforms at scale, including automated release workflows, artifact promotion, validation, and rollback.
• Strong understanding and practical experience with progressive delivery strategies (canary, blue/green, rolling, controlled rollouts) and feature flagging for controlled feature releases, including automated canary analysis and integrating feature flagging directly with deployment platforms.
• Strong experience with CI/CD platforms (e.g., CircleCI, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Bitbucket Pipelines, Jenkins, or equivalent), including building reusable pipelines, deployment frameworks, and automation, as well as modernizing or migrating enterprise CI/CD and deployment platforms.
• Strong programming and scripting skills in Go, Python, Bash, or similar languages.
• Strong understanding of artifact management and promotion across environments.
• Experience integrating automated testing, security, quality, and operational checks into deployment pipelines, along with deployment observability and release metrics and integrating application observability and production telemetry into automated release decisions.
• Solid understanding of cloud environments (preferably AWS), Infrastructure as Code (preferably Terraform), and containers/Kubernetes or ECS, including Kubernetes deployment tooling such as Helm or Kustomize, GitOps or declarative deployment models, and multi‑region application deployments.
• Strong troubleshooting and problem‑solving skills across distributed systems and production environments.
• Demonstrated ability to lead complex technical initiatives across multiple engineering teams, with strong communication and technical leadership skills, including establishing deployment standards across large engineering organizations and coaching engineers on deployment automation, release engineering, and deployment safety best practices.
• Experience with software supply‑chain security and DevSecOps practices.
• A track record of reducing deployment lead time, change failure rate, and time to recover through automation and progressive delivery practices.

Responsibilities

• Own Continuous Delivery End to End: Design, build, and continuously improve our Continuous Delivery pipelines — from artifact promotion through progressive rollout to production.
• Architect Deployment Automation: Build highly automated deployment workflows that eliminate manual release steps and enable engineering teams to deploy safely and consistently.
• Design Progressive Delivery Strategies: Architect and implement progressive deployment patterns including blue/green, canary, rolling, percentage-based, and regional deployments.
• Build Automated Release Orchestration: Design and implement release orchestration across services, environments, and regions.
• Drive Feature Flagging & Controlled Releases: Establish and evolve NinjaOne's feature flagging capabilities and integrate them with deployment workflows.
• Build and Improve CI/CD Pipelines: Lead the evolution of NinjaOne's CI/CD framework with depth on the Continuous Delivery side.
• Establish Deployment Guardrails: Build automated controls based on health, tests, code quality, security signals, and telemetry.
• Improve Deployment Observability: Build dashboards and metrics for deployment success, duration, rollback, change failure rate, etc.
• Work with Infrastructure & Cloud Platforms: Ensure deployment systems integrate with underlying cloud infrastructure and IaC like Terraform.
• Drive Deployment Reliability: Lead investigations and remediation for deployment incidents and automate recovery.
• Provide Technical Leadership: Set standards, reference architectures, and mentor engineers on deployment automation and release engineering.

Skills

Continuous Delivery

Deployment automation

Progressive delivery

Feature flags

CI/CD pipelines

Go

Python

Bash

Terraform

AWS

Kubernetes

Helm

Kustomize

GitOps

Observability

Incident response

Leadership

DevSecOps

Tools

Jenkins

GitHub Actions

CircleCI

Terraform

Kubernetes

Helm

Kustomize

Job description

NinjaOne is seeking a Principal DevOps Engineer to lead our end-to-end deployment and release automation. You will design and own scalable CD pipelines, progressive delivery, and automated rollback across regions in a cloud-native, IaC environment.

You will work closely with Engineering, QA, Security, SRE, and Architecture to evolve deployment patterns, implement health checks, and drive reliability at scale.