Senior DevOps Engineer

Ascensus•Boston, MA

4d•$120,000 - $165,000

About The Position

We are seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer with 10+ years of hands‑on experience designing, building, and operating enterprise‑grade CI/CD platforms across hybrid environments (AWS and on‑premises). This role will lead platform standardization, progressive delivery, reliability engineering, and security‑by‑design to enable high‑quality, low‑risk software delivery at scale.

Requirements

10+ years of hands‑on experience designing, building, and operating enterprise‑grade CI/CD platforms across hybrid environments (AWS and on‑premises)
AWS (mandatory): ECS, EKS, Lambda, RDS, IAM, CloudFormation, CloudWatch
Hybrid infrastructure experience across on‑prem VMs, bare metal, and internal networks
Terraform for modular, reusable, policy‑compliant infrastructure
GitHub Enterprise & GitHub Actions (reusable workflows, templates, runners, environments)
CI/CD orchestration across hybrid AWS and on‑prem topologies
Artifact versioning, promotion, and immutability strategies
Docker image design, optimization, and security hardening
Kubernetes (EKS and on‑prem) deployment patterns, scaling, and lifecycle management
Helm for deployment standardization
Automated testing frameworks (unit, integration, regression, performance)
Static and dynamic analysis tools (code quality, security, dependency scanning)
Feature flag platforms or equivalent internal capabilities
Oracle and Microsoft SQL Server (mandatory)
Schema migration tooling with automated rollback
Data masking, anonymization, and controlled refresh automation
Metrics, logging, and tracing with Prometheus, Grafana, Splunk, New Relic, CloudWatch, OpenTelemetry, ELK
SLO‑driven alerting and deployment health evaluation (e.g., Uptrends, PagerDuty)
Automated failure containment and rollback strategies
HashiCorp Vault, AWS Secrets Manager, or equivalent
Secure pipeline design with controlled credential access
Compliance‑ready logging, approvals, and traceability
Experience in regulated or financial services environments
Strong documentation, runbooks, and architectural communication
Proven collaboration with application, infrastructure, security, and QA teams
Comfortable operating in enterprise, onshore delivery models

Responsibilities

Design, implement, and operate a standardized CI/CD framework supporting Dev, QA, PartnerLab, Staging, and Production
Define promotion workflows with enforced quality gates and artifact immutability
Establish PartnerLab as a dedicated integration and validation environment with no direct path to Production
Ensure environment parity across AWS and on‑prem systems
Implement feature flags, canary deployments, blue‑green deployments, and phased rollouts
Enable automated rollback based on health checks, error rates, and SLO breaches
Maintain full release traceability from commit through production
Integrate unit, integration, regression, security, and performance testing into CI/CD pipelines
Enforce automated quality gates before environment promotion
Support manual validation workflows with controlled access, observability, and test artifacts
Automate database schema versioning, migrations, rollbacks, and validation
Build lower‑environment refresh pipelines sourced from production data
Enforce data masking and PII anonymization for non‑production environments
Validate data integrity and consistency post‑refresh
Define and enforce observability standards across logs, metrics, and traces
Implement service health dashboards, alerts, and incident signals
Integrate deployment health into automated release decisions
Support on‑call readiness, incident response, and post‑incident reviews
Embed security scanning, secrets management, and access controls into pipelines
Enforce least‑privilege IAM, credential rotation, and artifact integrity checks
Align CI/CD workflows with enterprise change management and audit requirements