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DevOps Engineer (TerraPower Core) – Contract
Bellevue-WA
Builds and maintains CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure automation, and deployment processes supporting TerraPower Core's software development and IT operations.
Tasks
- Design, build, and maintain CI/CD pipelines for automated build, test, and deployment supporting TerraPower Core's software development and IT operations.
- Develop and maintain infrastructure as code and infrastructure automation for repeatable environment provisioning.
- Automate operational tasks and deployment workflows through scripting.
- Manage source control workflows, branching strategies, and release processes with development teams.
- Implement monitoring, logging, and alerting, and troubleshoot build, deployment, and environment issues.
- Collaborate with developers, QA, and security teams to build security and quality into the pipeline.
- Support releases and incident response, and maintain documentation and runbooks.
- Improve the reliability, performance, and cost of development and production environments.
Key Qualifications and Skills
- Priority 1: Direct experience within the specific technical domain of the assigned team (e.g., software engineering/DevOps for AI & Software Development roles).
- Priority 2: Absent direct domain experience, relevant experience at comparable technology or regulated companies.
- Priority 3: General technical competency for the role itself.
- Experience with CI/CD tooling, infrastructure-as-code, and deployment automation.
- Strong scripting skills.
- Experience with CI/CD tools (e.g., Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, or Jenkins).
- Experience with infrastructure-as-code tools (e.g., Terraform, Bicep, or Ansible).
- Proficiency in scripting (e.g., PowerShell, Bash, or Python).
- Experience with Git and branching strategies.
- Working knowledge of Windows and Linux environments.
- Understanding of networking, security, and monitoring fundamentals.
- Experience with cloud platforms such as Azure.
- U.S. citizen or lawful permanent resident.
- Preferred: Familiarity with containerization (e.g., Docker/Kubernetes).
- Preferred: Relevant DevOps or cloud certification (e.g., Azure DevOps Engineer).
- Preferred: Experience with observability and monitoring platforms.
- Preferred: Experience supporting regulated environments.
- Strong communication skills desired.
- The service provider will possess a high degree of trust and integrity, communicate openly and display respect, and a desire to foster teamwork.