What are the responsibilities and job description for the Lead DevOps Engineer (Jenkins) position at PRI Technology?
Lead DevOps Engineer (Jenkins)
Location: Charlotte, NC or Jersey City, NJ
Employment Type: Full-Time, Direct Hire
This is not a contract role and is not available for third-party agencies or contractors.
About the Role
We are seeking a hands-on Lead DevOps Engineer to drive the development of a next-generation enterprise pipeline infrastructure. This role is ideal for a technical leader with deep experience building scalable Jenkins environments, defining CI/CD strategy, and promoting DevOps best practices across large organizations. If you thrive in fast-paced, highly collaborative environments and enjoy solving complex engineering challenges, this is an excellent opportunity.
What You’ll Do
- Lead the design and implementation of a unified enterprise pipeline framework using Jenkins, Octopus Deploy, and related CI/CD tools.
- Build, optimize, and maintain a highly scalable Jenkins platform supporting multiple concurrent teams and workloads.
- Evaluate emerging CI/CD technologies and lead enterprise-wide adoption initiatives.
- Manage and mentor a team of developers and DevOps engineers; foster a culture of operational excellence.
- Collaborate with cross-functional stakeholders to gather requirements, align strategy, and advance DevOps maturity.
- Enforce Infrastructure-as-Code practices with proper governance, compliance, and audit controls.
- Implement monitoring, alerting, and automation to ensure strong operational performance.
- Lead incident response efforts; drive root-cause analysis and long-term remediation.
- Identify bottlenecks and drive end-to-end automation to improve deployment speed and reliability.
What You Bring
- Strong expertise with Jenkins, Octopus Deploy, and modern CI/CD ecosystems.
- Hands-on experience with AWS or Azure, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, and IaC principles.
- Strong programming skills (Python, Node.js) and solid Git fundamentals.
- 3 years of experience leading technical teams and delivering complex solutions.
- Experience with Software-Defined Networks, VPCs, cloud networking, and infrastructure automation.
- Familiarity with DevOps methodologies and ITIL best practices.
- Proactive, collaborative, and driven by innovation.
