Sr DevOps Engineer

Judge Group, Inc.; Lone Tree (CO); Hybrid; USD 96,000 - 98,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision insurance

Job summary

Judge Group, Inc. is seeking a Sr DevOps Engineer in Lone Tree, CO to design and maintain scalable CI/CD pipelines across cloud, on-prem, and hybrid environments.

The role focuses on automating infrastructure provisioning and standardizing deployment workflows to support multiple product variations and customers.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field.
• 8 years of experience in DevOps or related role; higher degree may substitute for experience.
• Hands-on virtualization development with RHEL KVM and VMware products.
• Hands-on experience with Docker, Kubernetes and/or OpenShift.
• Experience establishing virtualization and containerization environments in edge deployments or stand-alone compute systems.
• Demonstrated implementation of microservices and containers.
• Strong release engineering and CI/CD pipeline experience.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and maintain scalable CI/CD pipelines across cloud, on-prem, and hybrid environments.
• Automate infrastructure provisioning and configuration management for consistent environments.
• Optimize deployment workflows for repeatable release processes across products and customers.
• Monitor, troubleshoot, and improve system performance across distributed systems.
• Collaborate with development, QA, product, security and operations teams on deployment strategies.
• Drive continuous improvement of tooling and deployment documentation.
• Work with a larger software team to provide operational capabilities to the field.

Skills

DevOps

Release engineering

System performance

Distributed systems

Virtualization development

Education

Bachelor’s degree in CS/IT/related

Master’s degree (preferred)

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

OpenShift

GitHub

VMware

KVM

Job description

Location: Lone Tree, CO Salary: $70.00 USD Hourly – $71.00 USD Hourly Description: Our client is currently seeking a Sr DevOps Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Design, implement, and maintain scalable CI/CD pipelines that support multiple deployment approaches across cloud, onpremises, and hybrid environments
• Automate infrastructure provisioning and configuration management to ensure consistent, reliable environments throughout the delivery lifecycle
• Optimize and standardize deployment workflows, enabling repeatable release processes that accommodate variations in product and customer requirements
• Monitor, troubleshoot, and improve system performance and reliability, applying advanced diagnostic skills across distributed systems and complex integrations
• Collaborate with development, QA, and product teams to align deployment strategies with architectural goals, security requirements, and operational best practices
• Drive continuous improvement initiatives refining operational tooling and establishing bestpractice documentation for deployment and release operations
• Works as part of a larger software development team to rapidly provide operational capabilities to the field

Qualifications You Must Have:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field
• 8 years of experience in DevOps or related role
• Higher level relevant degree may substitute for experience
• Relevant experience can be considered as a substitute for the required educational qualifications. In the absence of a degree, a minimum of 12 years of related experience is required.
• Hands‑on virtualization development experience, with extensive knowledge designing and deploying software products using RHEL KVM and the VMWare family of products
• Hands‑on experience with Docker, Kubernetes and/or Openshift and related container platform ecosystems
• Experience establishing virtualization and containerization environments in edge deployments or stand‑alone compute systems
• Demonstrated implementation of microservices and containers
• Demonstrated experience with developer tools such as GitHub
• Strong understanding and experience of release engineering, CI and CD pipelines
• Proven track record of delivering high quality and consistent systems and environments for development teams
• Ability to rapidly work with minimal supervision on projects
• Ability to work in collaborative, fast‑paced environment
• Excellent organizational, communication and interpersonal skills

Qualifications Prefered:

• Master’s degree in a related field
• Experience in the Aerospace and Defense industry, including working in multiple security domains and on air‑gapped systems
• VMWare Certified Professional – VMWare vSphere Foundation Administrator
• VMware Certified Professional – VMware vSphere Foundation Support
• Red Hat Certified System Administrator (RHCSA)
• Red Hat Certified Specialist in Containers and Kubernetes
• Red Hat Certified Specialist in OpenShift Virtualization Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD) Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) Advanced proficiency with Ansible, including developing and maintaining playbooks
• Experience coordinating release readiness activities
• Experience implementing and enforcing configuration control of development environments
• Experience generating process documentation and training engineers on environment configuration and deployment

Essential Functions:

• Communication with team members and stakeholders
• Ability to work in an office or hybrid environment
• Design and manage complex infrastructure solutions, leveraging virtualization, containerization, and orchestration tools to support scalable and secure environments
• Mentor software and systems engineers and promote best practices in DevOps methodologies
• Collaborate with development, QA, security, and operations teams to ensure seamless integration and delivery of applications and services, fostering a culture of collaboration
• Travel may be required

Certifications & Licenses:

• Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)
• Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD)
• Red Hat Certified Specialist in Containers and Kubernetes
• Red Hat Certified Specialist in OpenShift Virtualization Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD) Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) Advanced proficiency with Ansible, including developing and maintaining playbooks
• Experience coordinating release readiness activities
• Experience implementing and enforcing configuration control of development environments
• Experience generating process documentation and training engineers on environment configuration and deployment

Skills Required:

• DEVOPS
• RELEASE ENGINEERING
• SYSTEM PERFORMANCE AND RELIABILITY
• DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS
• VIRTUALIZATION DEVELOPMENT

Additional Skills:

• TRAINING ENGINEERS ON ENVIRONMENT CONFIGURATION AND DEPLOYMENT
• COORDINATING RELEASE READINESS ACTIVITIES
• IMPLEMENTING AND ENFORCING CONFIGURATION CONTROL OF DEVELOPMENT ENVIRONMENTS
• GENERATING PROCESS DOCUMENTATION
• RHEL KVM
• VMWARE FAMILY OF PRODUCTS
• DOCKER
• KUBERNETES
• OPENSHIFT
• VIRTUALIZATION AND CONTAINERIZATION ENVIRONMENTS
• MICROSERVICES AND CONTAINERS
• GITHUB
• CI AND CD PIPELINES
• INFRASTRUCTURE PROVISIONING
• CONFIGURATION MANAGEMENT
• ORGANIZATIONAL SKILLS
• COMMUNICATION SKILLS
• INTERPERSONAL SKILLS
• AEROSPACE AND DEFENSE INDUSTRY
• MULTIPLE SECURITY DOMAINS
• AIR‑GAPPED SYSTEMS
• ADVANCED PROFICIENCY WITH ANSIBLE
• DEVELOPING AND MAINTAINING PLAYBOOKS

Medical, dental, and vision insurance are available to qualified candidates who meet eligibility requirements.