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DevOps Engineer

NESC Staffing

Springfield, MA

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JOB DETAILS
LOCATION
Springfield, MA
POSTED
30+ days ago

DevOps Engineer

The DevOps Engineer is responsible for bridging the gap between software development and IT operations by automating and streamlining the integration, deployment, and monitoring processes. This role ensures continuous delivery of high-quality software by maintaining infrastructure, managing CI/CD pipelines, and fostering a culture of collaboration between development and infrastructure teams.

Responsibilities:
  • Lead the implementation of automation and deployment strategies
  • Represent the DevOps function in sprint planning and retrospectives
  • Provide technical expertise in infrastructure, monitoring, and performance optimization
  • Collaborate with developers and QA to ensure smooth delivery pipelines
  • Collaborate on CI/CD integration, deployment strategies, and debugging
  • Coordinate automated testing and release validation
  • Align on server provisioning, monitoring, and incident response
  • Understand deployment timelines and feature readiness
  • Ensure compliance with security standards and vulnerability management
  • Support, troubleshooting, upgrades
  • Long term planning/road mapping, high level solution design
  • Infrastructure Scalability - Ensuring systems scale with user demand without downtime
  • Deployment Failures - Diagnosing and resolving CI/CD pipeline issues
  • Security Compliance - Keeping infrastructure compliant with evolving security standards
  • Cross-Team Coordination - Aligning priorities and timelines across departments
  • Golden Image Development and Management –Building and maintaining a library of server images
  • Blueprint Development and Management –Maintaining scripts and artifacts for standing up and tearing down our various solution/application environments
  • May be assigned to lead or support disaster recovery planning and business continuity initiatives.
  • Occasionally involved in proof-of-concept (PoC) evaluations for new DevOps tools or platforms.
  • Could participate in internal security or compliance committees to align infrastructure practices with regulatory standards.
  • Provides technical mentorship to junior developers and system administrators.
  • Offers best practice guidance to development teams on deployment strategies, environment configuration, and performance tuning.
  • High level of confidentiality is expected due to access to production systems, user data, security credentials, and deployment pipelines.
  • Must adhere to strict access control policies and data protection regulations.
  • Expected to proactively identify inefficiencies in deployment and infrastructure processes and propose automation or optimization solutions.
  • Contribute to internal documentation, playbooks, and knowledge bases to support team scalability.
  • May require on-call availability or remote support for international teams or systems.


Required Skills

Preferred Background:
  • 3+ years in a DevOps, Site Reliability, or Platform Engineering role
  • Experience with infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, Ansible)
  • Exposure to Agile/Scrum environments a plus


Education:
  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field (or equivalent experience)


Skills & Traits:
  • Proficiency in scripting languages (e.G., PowerShell, Bash)
  • Experience with CI/CD tools (Azure DevOps with VSTS a plus)
  • Experience with infrastructure automation tools (Morpheus, Terraform/Ansible)
  • Knowledge of containerization a plus but not required (Docker, Kubernetes)
  • Familiarity with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP)
  • Strong problem-solving and troubleshooting skills
  • Excellent communication and collaboration abilities
  • Passion for automation and continuous improvement
  • Strong understanding of networking concepts, Linux/Unix systems, and cloud-native architectures.
  • Must possess a continuous learning mindset to stay current with rapidly evolving DevOps tools and methodologies.

About the Company

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NESC Staffing

The company was founded in 1984 as National Engineering Services Corporation. In 2015, we changed our name to NESC Staffing to better reflect the service we provide to businesses and professionals.

We have grown to six branch offices that cover the entire United States, providing everything from engineering to science recruitment and more. Our goal then and now is to combine years of experience in the industry with state-of-the-art recruitment and payroll methods to provide our employees and client companies with qualified technical support and quality service. We are a privately held nationwide firm with corporate headquarters in Portsmouth, NH.

COMPANY SIZE
100 to 499 employees
INDUSTRY
Other/Not Classified
FOUNDED
1984
WEBSITE
http://www.nesc.com

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