Mobile DevOps Engineer

TEKsystems•Detroit, MI

11d•$65 - $80•Remote

About The Position

We are looking for a contractor with experience in mobile and cloud infrastructure to support our pre-launch platform work. Key areas include: Mobile Production Readiness: Ensuring the end-to-end mobile release pipeline is production-ready, including App Store and Play Store compliance, staged rollout configuration for both Apple and Android, rollbacks, and environment validation across dev, staging, and production. Observability & Monitoring: Completing mobile monitoring and alerting in Datadog ahead of launch (crash alerting, performance thresholds, dashboards). Extending coverage to website and BFF projects as needed. GitHub Actions Automation for Vercel Deployments: Automating manual deployment steps for Vercel-hosted applications including the website, mobile BFF, and two Vercel deployed services currently lacking full CI/CD coverage. Infrastructure as Code (Pulumi): Codifying Vercel, GCP, and Datadog infrastructure currently managed manually. Includes environment configuration, IAM, Firebase/FCM setup, and establishing repeatable patterns for other engineers to self-serve. CI/CD Standardization: Establishing shared GitHub Actions workflows across repos, implementing automated branching, changelog generation, and deployment notifications. Experience building reliable, deterministic automation is essential — the team needs consistency across services. Secret Rotation: Implementing automated secret rotation across GitHub Actions and EAS to eliminate manual token management and prevent pipeline failures due to expired credentials. Dependency Management: Experience managing dependency hygiene at scale Security Practices: Platform-level security hygiene including secrets management, least privilege IAM, and dependency vulnerability scanning/updates.

Requirements

Experience with Expo/React Native mobile pipelines (EAS, App Store Connect and Google Play API)
Datadog instrumentation
GitHub Actions at scale
Pulumi or equivalent IaC tooling
Vercel deployment workflows
Feature flag platforms (Optimizely)
Experience working as a platform generalist in a small team or solo capacity.
Experience managing developer tooling
On-call response processes
Cross-platform secrets/service account hygiene
Comfortable inheriting and evaluating existing infrastructure rather than building from scratch
Familiarity with App Store and Google Play submission processes is a plus.

Nice To Haves

SRE experience including SLO definition, alerting strategy, and production observability is a nice to have.

Responsibilities

Ensuring the end-to-end mobile release pipeline is production-ready, including App Store and Play Store compliance, staged rollout configuration for both Apple and Android, rollbacks, and environment validation across dev, staging, and production.
Completing mobile monitoring and alerting in Datadog ahead of launch (crash alerting, performance thresholds, dashboards). Extending coverage to website and BFF projects as needed.
Automating manual deployment steps for Vercel-hosted applications including the website, mobile BFF, and two Vercel deployed services currently lacking full CI/CD coverage.
Codifying Vercel, GCP, and Datadog infrastructure currently managed manually. Includes environment configuration, IAM, Firebase/FCM setup, and establishing repeatable patterns for other engineers to self-serve.
Establishing shared GitHub Actions workflows across repos, implementing automated branching, changelog generation, and deployment notifications.
Implementing automated secret rotation across GitHub Actions and EAS to eliminate manual token management and prevent pipeline failures due to expired credentials.
Managing dependency hygiene at scale
Platform-level security hygiene including secrets management, least privilege IAM, and dependency vulnerability scanning/updates.