What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior DevOps Engineer position at Eliassen Group?
Description:
Remote
Our client is seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer to lead build and release automation, CI/CD platform engineering, and software supply-chain practices across a portfolio of SaaS products. The role will architect standardized pipelines, versioning, signing, and release workflows to enable reliable, secure, and auditable delivery at scale. The engineer will partner with cross-functional teams to embed governance, security, and performance into the build ecosystem and drive global scalability through resilient automation. This position will evolve the platform into a self-service, secure, and performance-optimized delivery engine.
This is a full-time, permanent opportunity, offering a competitive salary and comprehensive benefits package. Qualified applicants must be willing and able to work on a w2 basis.
Salary: $140,000 - $190,000/ yr. w2
Responsibilities:
Experience Requirements:
Recruitment Transparency Notice
Eliassen Group values transparency in our recruitment practices. Please be advised that Eliassen Group utilizes artificial intelligence (AI) tools as part of its initial application screening process. You may receive email and SMS notifications from the Eliassen Virtual Recruiting Team (, ) inviting you to complete a brief voice screening as part of your application process. These tools assist our hiring teams in different ways, including but not limited to, assistance in reviewing application materials to help identify candidates whose qualifications most closely match the requirements of the position. All AI-assisted evaluations and responses are reviewed by human recruiters before any hiring decisions are made. The use of AI in our process is intended to support fairness, efficiency, and consistency, and Eliassen Group takes measures to prevent bias or discrimination in connection with its hiring practices. By proceeding, you acknowledge, agree, and consent to Eliassen Group's use of these tools, including AI tools, as part of the application and hiring process.
Skills, experience, and other compensable factors will be considered when determining pay rate. The pay range provided in this posting reflects a W2 hourly rate; other employment options may be available that may result in pay outside of the provided range.
W2 employees of Eliassen Group who are regularly scheduled to work 30 or more hours per week are eligible for the following benefits: medical (choice of 3 plans), dental, vision, pre-tax accounts, other voluntary benefits including life and disability insurance, 401(k) with match, and sick time if required by law in the worked-in state/locality.
Please be advised- If anyone reaches out to you about an open position connected with Eliassen Group, please confirm that they have an Eliassen.com email address and never provide personal or financial information to anyone who is not clearly associated with Eliassen Group. If you have any indication of fraudulent activity, please contact .
About Eliassen Group:
Eliassen Group is a leading strategic consulting company for human-powered solutions. For over 30 years, Eliassen has helped thousands of companies reach further and achieve more with their technology solutions, financial, risk & compliance, and advisory solutions, and clinical solutions. With offices from coast to coast and throughout Europe, Eliassen provides a local community presence, balanced with international reach. Eliassen Group strives to positively impact the lives of their employees, clients, consultants, and the communities in which they operate.
Eliassen Group is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, protected veteran status, or disability status.
Don't miss out on our referral program! If we hire a candidate that you refer us to then you can be eligible for a $1,000 referral check!
Remote
Our client is seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer to lead build and release automation, CI/CD platform engineering, and software supply-chain practices across a portfolio of SaaS products. The role will architect standardized pipelines, versioning, signing, and release workflows to enable reliable, secure, and auditable delivery at scale. The engineer will partner with cross-functional teams to embed governance, security, and performance into the build ecosystem and drive global scalability through resilient automation. This position will evolve the platform into a self-service, secure, and performance-optimized delivery engine.
This is a full-time, permanent opportunity, offering a competitive salary and comprehensive benefits package. Qualified applicants must be willing and able to work on a w2 basis.
Salary: $140,000 - $190,000/ yr. w2
Responsibilities:
- Design, implement, and maintain CI/CD pipelines, versioning automation, and artifact signing across services and repositories.
- Define and roll out standardized build patterns, reusable pipeline templates, and golden configurations using CircleCI and related tooling.
- Manage and optimize build infrastructure including executors, runners, caching, and containerized environments to reduce lead time, flakiness, and cost.
- Partner with engineering and architecture teams to diagnose and resolve systemic build failures and dependency issues.
- Embed security and supply-chain controls into pipelines, including vulnerability scanning, secrets management, policy enforcement, and SBOM generation.
- Implement branching, versioning, and release strategies such as feature branches, trunk-based development, release branches, and hotfix flows.
- Administer artifact management platforms such as JFrog Artifactory, including repository layout, retention, immutability, and provenance metadata.
- Collaborate with security, compliance, and audit teams to meet regulatory and customer requirements for traceability and change governance.
- Create and maintain documentation, runbooks, and onboarding materials for CI/CD standards and tooling.
- Mentor engineers and help teams adopt standardized build and release workflows.
- Perform other duties as needed.
Experience Requirements:
- 8 years in DevOps, build/release engineering, or platform engineering with deep CI/CD automation expertise.
- Proven experience designing, scaling, and operating complex CI/CD systems using CircleCI, GitHub Actions, Bitbucket Pipelines, Jenkins, or GitLab CI.
- Strong expertise in Git-based workflows, branching strategies, pull request governance, and protected branch policies.
- Hands-on experience administering artifact repositories such as JFrog Artifactory including repository design and metadata management.
- Deep understanding of build systems and dependency management including Maven, Gradle, and npm.
- Experience designing secure software supply-chain processes including signing, SBOM generation, and vulnerability scanning.
- Strong infrastructure-as-code experience with CDK, Terraform, Ansible, or Chef applied to CI/CD infrastructure.
- Experience with containerized build environments using Docker and cloud platforms such as AWS or equivalent.
- Proficiency in scripting or programming with Python, Bash, or Go to build automation tooling.
- Experience implementing release governance, audit traceability, and change management processes.
- Experience designing and rolling out standardized golden pipeline templates across large engineering organizations (preferred).
- Background in DevSecOps or software supply-chain security including attestations, signing frameworks, and policy-as-code such as OPA or Conftest (preferred).
- Experience improving DORA metrics and delivery performance at scale (preferred).
- Prior experience leading CI/CD modernization, platform migrations, or tooling consolidation initiatives (preferred).
- Experience operating in high-growth SaaS or multi-region cloud environments (preferred).
- Familiarity with progressive delivery patterns such as blue/green or canary releases (preferred).
Recruitment Transparency Notice
Eliassen Group values transparency in our recruitment practices. Please be advised that Eliassen Group utilizes artificial intelligence (AI) tools as part of its initial application screening process. You may receive email and SMS notifications from the Eliassen Virtual Recruiting Team (, ) inviting you to complete a brief voice screening as part of your application process. These tools assist our hiring teams in different ways, including but not limited to, assistance in reviewing application materials to help identify candidates whose qualifications most closely match the requirements of the position. All AI-assisted evaluations and responses are reviewed by human recruiters before any hiring decisions are made. The use of AI in our process is intended to support fairness, efficiency, and consistency, and Eliassen Group takes measures to prevent bias or discrimination in connection with its hiring practices. By proceeding, you acknowledge, agree, and consent to Eliassen Group's use of these tools, including AI tools, as part of the application and hiring process.
Skills, experience, and other compensable factors will be considered when determining pay rate. The pay range provided in this posting reflects a W2 hourly rate; other employment options may be available that may result in pay outside of the provided range.
W2 employees of Eliassen Group who are regularly scheduled to work 30 or more hours per week are eligible for the following benefits: medical (choice of 3 plans), dental, vision, pre-tax accounts, other voluntary benefits including life and disability insurance, 401(k) with match, and sick time if required by law in the worked-in state/locality.
Please be advised- If anyone reaches out to you about an open position connected with Eliassen Group, please confirm that they have an Eliassen.com email address and never provide personal or financial information to anyone who is not clearly associated with Eliassen Group. If you have any indication of fraudulent activity, please contact .
About Eliassen Group:
Eliassen Group is a leading strategic consulting company for human-powered solutions. For over 30 years, Eliassen has helped thousands of companies reach further and achieve more with their technology solutions, financial, risk & compliance, and advisory solutions, and clinical solutions. With offices from coast to coast and throughout Europe, Eliassen provides a local community presence, balanced with international reach. Eliassen Group strives to positively impact the lives of their employees, clients, consultants, and the communities in which they operate.
Eliassen Group is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, protected veteran status, or disability status.
Don't miss out on our referral program! If we hire a candidate that you refer us to then you can be eligible for a $1,000 referral check!
Salary : $140,000 - $190,000