DevOps Engineer

DevOps Engineer

Location: Hybrid – Bellevue, WA
Type: W-2 contract, 3 year assignment

Pay:
Junior-Mid $63.00 – $75.50 per hour based on experience
Senior $75.50 – $95.00 per hour based on experience

About the role
A corporate software development team is looking for a DevOps Engineer to build the pipelines and automation that let the team ship software reliably. You’ll own CI/CD, infrastructure-as-code and deployment processes, and work with developers, QA and security to build quality and security into every release.

We’re hiring at junior, mid and senior levels. Pay and scope depend on experience.

What you’ll do

• Design, build and maintain CI/CD pipelines for automated build, test and deployment
• Develop and maintain infrastructure-as-code and automation for repeatable environment setup
• Automate operational tasks and deployment workflows through scripting
• Manage source control workflows, branching strategies and release processes with development teams
• Set up monitoring, logging and alerting; troubleshoot build, deployment and environment issues
• Work with developers, QA and security teams to build security and quality into the pipeline
• Support releases and incident response; maintain documentation and runbooks
• Improve the reliability, performance and cost of development and production environments

• Experience with CI/CD tooling, infrastructure-as-code and deployment automation
• CI/CD tools such as Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI or Jenkins
• Infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform, Bicep or Ansible
• Strong scripting skills in PowerShell, Bash or Python
• 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
• Strong communication skills

• DevOps experience within software engineering teams
• Otherwise, DevOps experience at a technology company or in a regulated industry
• Containerization with Docker and Kubernetes
• DevOps or cloud certification, such as Azure DevOps Engineer Expert
• Observability and monitoring platforms
• Experience supporting regulated environments

• Azure services such as AKS, App Service, Azure Monitor and Key Vault
• Monitoring tools such as Azure Monitor, Grafana, Prometheus or Datadog
• Security scanning in pipelines, such as SonarQube or Microsoft Defender for DevOps
• Secrets and configuration management
• Helm or GitOps tools such as Argo CD

• Junior (0–4 years): maintains pipelines and scripts with guidance, using established patterns and tools
• Mid (4–8 years): builds and improves pipelines and infrastructure automation independently and may guide junior staff
• Senior (8+ years): designs the CI/CD and infrastructure approach, sets standards, mentors others and works directly with stakeholders

• Able to safely lift up to 25 lbs and use stairs
• Travel: 0–5%

Benefits: Health insurance, 401(k) plan, and paid sick leave as required by state and local law. PTO and holidays according to the pay package.

Globalpundits is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify.