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Principal DevOps Engineer
Pittsburgh, PA (Onsite – 5 Days/Week), Strongsville/Cleveland, OH, Birmingham, AL, Pittsburgh, PA, Dallas/Farmers Branch, TX, Phoenix, AZ
Contract
Industry
- Banking / Financial Services Preferred
Job Summary
Seeking a highly experienced Software Engineer Principal to join the CI/CD Pipeline Engineering Team (Orange Rocket Initiative) supporting the enterprise-wide rollout of GitHub Enterprise. This role will focus on designing, developing, and optimizing production-grade CI/CD platforms, automation frameworks, reusable workflows, and deployment pipelines across large-scale enterprise environments.
The ideal candidate will possess deep expertise in GitHub Actions, Jenkins, Kubernetes/OpenShift, Docker, Helm, and enterprise DevOps practices, with a strong software engineering background and experience driving modernization initiatives such as Jenkins-to-GitHub Actions migrations.
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and optimize enterprise CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions.
- Build reusable workflows, automation frameworks, and deployment pipelines.
- Integrate GitHub Actions with Jenkins, JFrog Artifactory, and other DevOps tools.
- Design and implement API integrations and automation solutions.
- Support CI/CD modernization initiatives, including Jenkins-to-GitHub Actions migrations.
- Deploy and manage containerized applications using Kubernetes/OpenShift and Helm.
- Develop and maintain Jenkins Shared Libraries using Groovy.
- Build and manage Docker images and containerized deployment strategies.
- Enhance platform performance, observability, reliability, and operational readiness.
- Collaborate with cross-functional engineering teams to improve deployment efficiency and developer productivity.
- Ensure security, scalability, governance, and best practices across enterprise DevOps platforms.
Required Technical Skills
CI/CD & DevOps
- Deep expertise with GitHub Actions in enterprise environments.
- Strong experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines.
- Experience integrating:
- GitHub
- Jenkins
- JFrog Artifactory
- Experience designing reusable workflows and automation frameworks.
- Strong understanding of enterprise DevOps practices including:
- Security
- Scalability
- Reliability
- Governance
- GitHub
- Bitbucket
- Azure DevOps
- Git-based development workflows
- Docker
- Kubernetes
- OpenShift
- Helm
- Dockerfile development
- Container image creation and management
- Jenkins Shared Libraries (Groovy)
- API Development & Integrations
- Automation Engineering
Strong development experience in one or more of:
- Golang
- Python
- Java
- JavaScript
- Experience working in complex, large-scale production environments.
- Enterprise-wide platform implementation experience.
- CI/CD platform engineering and modernization expertise.
Nice-to-Have Skills
- Agile/Scrum experience
- Monitoring & Observability Platforms
- Performance Optimization
- Scalability Engineering
- Operational Readiness
- Jira
- Confluence
- SharePoint
Soft Skills
- Strong communication and presentation skills
- Excellent analytical and troubleshooting abilities
- Strong problem-solving mindset
- Self-motivated and proactive
- Quick learner with adaptability to new technologies
- Ability to work effectively in cross-functional enterprise teams
Education
- Bachelor's Degree or equivalent professional experience
Screening Questions
- Can you describe a GitHub Actions framework or platform you designed for multiple teams? How did you handle reusability, scalability, governance, secrets management, and permissions?
- Tell me about a migration or integration you led involving Jenkins and GitHub Actions. What challenges did you face with shared libraries, pipeline parity, performance, or security, and how did you address them?
- How have you improved the performance, observability, or reliability of a CI/CD platform at scale? What metrics, tools, or architectural improvements did you implement?
Preferred Candidate Profile
- 10–15 years of Software Engineering and DevOps experience.
- Deep GitHub Actions expertise in enterprise environments.
- Strong Kubernetes/OpenShift deployment experience using Helm.
- Proven Jenkins-to-GitHub modernization experience.
- Strong software development background.
- Experience building scalable, secure enterprise CI/CD platforms.
- Banking or Financial Services experience preferred.
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