DevOps Engineer III (On-Prem,CI/CD, Release & Platform Engineering)

DevOps Engineer III (On-Prem, CI/CD, Release & Platform Engineering
Birmingham, AL | Atlanta, GA | Charlotte, NC
6 months Contract-to-Hire
Pay Range: $65.00-70.00per hr.

Overview
We are seeking a DevOps Engineer III to support CI/CD pipelines, release management, and operational excellence for a fully on-prem enterprise .NET API platform (FETA).
This role focuses on end-to-end delivery automation, deployment reliability, and production support, not cloud infrastructure or IaC development.

Environment & Tech Context

• Fully on-premise enterprise environment
• No cloud technologies involved
• Terraform is NOT used or required
• No infrastructure-as-code focus in this role
• Strong focus on CI/CD, release engineering, and operational delivery

Key Hiring Philosophy (IMPORTANT)

• This is a tool-agnostic DevOps role
• We hire based on capability, not specific tools
• Candidates will be evaluated on:
• CI/CD expertise
• Release engineering experience
• Deployment strategy knowledge
• Operational maturity

Tool flexibility:

• Jenkins = fully acceptable
• GitHub Actions = preferred/common
• Harness = preferred but NOT required
• Strong engineers are expected to learn tools quickly

Day-to-Day Responsibilities

• Build and maintain CI pipelines (GitHub Actions, Jenkins, or similar)
• Configure and manage CD pipelines (Harness or equivalent)
• Implement blue-green and rolling deployment strategies
• Manage artifact repositories (JFrog or equivalent)
• Own infrastructure provisioning (non-cloud, on-prem environments)
• Manage logging, metrics, tracing, dashboards, and alerting
• Ensure release readiness, rollback strategies, and feature flag usage
• Manage secrets, security scans, and compliance controls
• Handle change management processes and deployment approvals
• Run deployment calls and coordinate production releases
• Maintain runbooks and support on-call rotations
• Support incident response and production troubleshooting
• Manage API gateway policies, proxy deployments, and compatibility gates
• Integrate automated testing suites into CI/CD pipelines
• Provide clear DevOps documentation and enablement for developers

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering
• 5+ years of DevOps / CI/CD engineering experience (7+ preferred)
• Strong On- Prem experience 
• Strong hands-on experience with CI/CD tools (any major platform)
• Experience with deployment strategies (blue-green, rolling)
• Experience with release management and production support
• Strong knowledge of monitoring, logging, and observability
• Experience working in enterprise environments

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with Harness (nice to have)
• Experience with GitHub Actions
• Familiarity with .NET application deployments
• Experience in financial services or regulated environments