DevOps Engineer III (CI/CD, Release & Platform Engineering
Birmingham, AL | Atlanta, GA | Charlotte, NC
6 months Contract-to-Hire
Pay Range: $65.00-70.00per hr.
Overview
We are seeking a DevOps Engineer III to support CI/CD pipelines, release management, and operational excellence for a fully on-prem enterprise .NET API platform (FETA).
This role focuses on end-to-end delivery automation, deployment reliability, and production support, not cloud infrastructure or IaC development.
Environment & Tech Context
- Fully on-premise enterprise environment
- No cloud technologies involved
- Terraform is NOT used or required
- No infrastructure-as-code focus in this role
- Strong focus on CI/CD, release engineering, and operational delivery
Key Hiring Philosophy (IMPORTANT)
- This is a tool-agnostic DevOps role
- We hire based on capability, not specific tools
- Candidates will be evaluated on:
- CI/CD expertise
- Release engineering experience
- Deployment strategy knowledge
- Operational maturity
👉 Tool flexibility:
- Jenkins = fully acceptable
- GitHub Actions = preferred/common
- Harness = preferred but NOT required
- Strong engineers are expected to learn tools quickly
Day-to-Day Responsibilities
- Build and maintain CI pipelines (GitHub Actions, Jenkins, or similar)
- Configure and manage CD pipelines (Harness or equivalent)
- Implement blue-green and rolling deployment strategies
- Manage artifact repositories (JFrog or equivalent)
- Own infrastructure provisioning (non-cloud, on-prem environments)
- Manage logging, metrics, tracing, dashboards, and alerting
- Ensure release readiness, rollback strategies, and feature flag usage
- Manage secrets, security scans, and compliance controls
- Handle change management processes and deployment approvals
- Run deployment calls and coordinate production releases
- Maintain runbooks and support on-call rotations
- Support incident response and production troubleshooting
- Manage API gateway policies, proxy deployments, and compatibility gates
- Integrate automated testing suites into CI/CD pipelines
- Provide clear DevOps documentation and enablement for developers
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering
- 5+ years of DevOps / CI/CD engineering experience (7+ preferred)
- Strong hands-on experience with CI/CD tools (any major platform)
- Experience with deployment strategies (blue-green, rolling)
- Experience with release management and production support
- Strong knowledge of monitoring, logging, and observability
- Experience working in enterprise environments
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with Harness (nice to have)
- Experience with GitHub Actions
- Familiarity with .NET application deployments
- Experience in financial services or regulated environments
- Cloud experience (not required, not used in this environment)
