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Senior Lead DevOps Engineer

WilsonCTS
Jersey, NJ Full Time
POSTED ON 11/28/2025
AVAILABLE BEFORE 3/27/2026

Job Summary
We are seeking a highly experienced Senior DevOps Engineer for our client based in Jersey city. This position reports to the SVP of Enterprise Architecture and Platform Engineering and is a great opportunity for someone who thrives in a fast paced environment and someone who has that unique combination of technical savvy and interpersonal skills.

Responsibilities

  • You will be responsible to lead the design and implement a unified enterprise pipeline framework leveraging Jenkins, Octopus Deploy, or other relevant tools.
  • Build a scalable Jenkins platform that can handle multiple concurrent jobs and service all IT teams.
  • Assess emerging CI/CD technologies, recommend improvements, and drive tool adoption across teams.
  • Lead a team of developers and devops engineers to build a robust Jenkins platform
  • Define deliverables and timelines and be responsible for ensuring these are met on time.
  • Work closely with cross-functional stakeholders to gather requirements, align on strategy, and champion DevOps culture.
  • Pipeline administration and ensure all teams utilise Infrastructure as Code to effect change and that the environment features the required controls and audit components to validate resource compliance
  • Provide technical leadership, mentoring and coaching for all staff and foster a culture of operational excellence, accountability, innovation and collaboration
  • Define and implement all operational components required to proactively monitor and manage the production environment, identify operational issues and maintain efficient operations
  • Lead team through all service disruptions to ensure services are restored; drive root cause analysis and remediation initiatives post any service disruption
  • Define and enforce governance, security, and compliance standards across the pipeline ecosystem.
  • Identify bottlenecks, propose optimizations, and push for end-to-end automation in the deployment process

Qualifications

  • Strong background in Jenkins, Octopus Deploy, and other CI/CD tools. Familiarity with Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, or equivalent cloud/DevOps tech is a plus.
  • Solid coding skills (e.g., Python, Node.js) and a solid grasp of version control (Git).
  • 3 years of experience in leading and managing a team and accountable for deliverables.
  • Experience with AWS, Azure, or similar cloud providers. Strong understanding of IaC principles.
  • Experience of Automating Infrastructure deployment
  • Demonstrate hands on working knowledge with AWS and its services, including but not limited to EC2, S3, IAM, RDS, Python and Aurora
  • Experience in Software-Defined-Networks, Software-Defined-Data-Centers, Virtual Private Clouds and other core network technology
  • Experienced with DevOps & ITIL.
  • Proactive, enthusiastic and ambitious
  • Good team worker with excellent verbal and written communication skills

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Job Type: Full-time

Pay: $140,000.00 - $160,000.00 per year

Work Location: In person

Salary : $140,000 - $160,000

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