DevOps Senior Engineer

Role: DevOps Senior Engineer
Rate: ***/hour all inclusive
Location: Miami, FL preferred, open to remote

"Senior DevOps Engineer – Harness CI/CD & Platform Automation

Position Summary
We are seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer with strong Harness.io, CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code, and platform automation experience to lead application migrations from Jenkins and GitHub Actions into standardized Harness CI/CD structures.
This is a highly hands-on technical role. The engineer will establish reusable Harness patterns, solve complex migration challenges, optimize CI/CD performance, and provide technical direction to other engineers executing application migrations.
The environment includes Java, Go, Node.js, and Python applications deployed across AWS and on-premise datacenter infrastructure, with Kubernetes, Helm, OpenTofu/Terraform, Ansible, and GitOps forming key components of the delivery ecosystem.
Responsibilities
Lead the technical migration of Jenkins and GitHub Actions workflows into Harness.
Assess existing pipelines, shared libraries, actions, integrations, credentials, runners, and deployment processes.
Design and implement reusable Harness steps, step groups, stages, pipelines, and templates.
Establish standards for Harness pipeline architecture, template reuse, inputs, variables, secrets, approvals, and deployment patterns.
Develop migration patterns that simplify and standardize existing CI/CD implementations rather than simply reproducing legacy pipelines.
Design CI/CD patterns supporting Java, Go, Node.js, and Python applications.
Establish and support GitOps-based application and infrastructure delivery.
Design and maintain reusable Helm charts and Kubernetes deployment patterns.
Develop and integrate Infrastructure as Code using OpenTofu/Terraform.
Develop and integrate configuration automation using Ansible.
Support delivery across AWS, Kubernetes, virtual machines, and traditional on-premise datacenter environments.
Troubleshoot complex pipeline, build, infrastructure, networking, and deployment issues.
Optimize pipeline performance, reliability, caching, parallelization, resource utilization, and failure diagnostics.
Design self-service and reusable delivery capabilities that reduce application-team onboarding effort.
Establish appropriate CI/CD governance, security, approval, and policy controls.
Conduct pipeline, template, IaC, and automation reviews.
Mentor DevOps engineers and provide technical direction for migration activities.
Partner with application, infrastructure, cloud, architecture, and security teams to resolve migration dependencies and technical blockers.
Required Qualifications
6+ years of hands-on DevOps, CI/CD, platform engineering, SRE, build/release engineering, or infrastructure automation experience.
Strong hands-on experience designing and operating enterprise CI/CD platforms.
Practical Harness.io CI/CD experience, including pipeline and template development.
Strong experience with Jenkins pipelines and migration/modernization activities.
Experience with GitHub Actions and Git-native CI/CD workflows.
Strong understanding of Git, branching/release strategies, and GitOps principles.
Advanced YAML and configuration-as-code skills.
Strong experience with Terraform and/or OpenTofu, including reusable module development.
Strong experience with Ansible, including roles and playbooks.
Strong hands-on Kubernetes and Helm experience.
Experience designing and maintaining reusable Helm charts.
Strong working knowledge of AWS infrastructure and application delivery.
Experience supporting hybrid cloud and on-premise datacenter environments.
Strong Linux, scripting, and command-line troubleshooting skills.
Automation experience using Python, Bash, Go, or similar languages.
Working knowledge of build, packaging, and dependency-management patterns for Java, Go, Node.js, and Python.
Experience with containers, artifact repositories, and container registries.
Demonstrated ability to independently diagnose complex CI/CD and infrastructure problems.
Ability to quickly assess existing delivery implementations and make sound architectural decisions with minimal ramp-up.
Preferred Qualifications
Deep experience with Harness.io CI and CD.
Harness pipeline and template architecture at organizational scale.
Harness Git Experience and configuration-as-code practices.
Harness delegate architecture and troubleshooting.
Experience performing Jenkins-to-Harness migrations.
Experience migrating GitHub Actions workflows into Harness.
Experience building standardized or ""golden path"" CI/CD capabilities.
GitOps architecture and implementation.
AWS and Kubernetes platform engineering.
CI/CD performance optimization and delivery telemetry.
REST API and integration automation.
Secrets-management and software supply-chain security experience.
Governance & Performance Knowledge
Experience with the following is strongly desirable:
DORA metrics — Deployment Frequency, Lead Time for Changes, Change Failure Rate*** and Mean Time to Restore/Recovery.
OPA / Open Policy Agent and Policy as Code.
Harness or enterprise CI/CD governance and automated guardrails.
Software supply-chain security, artifact provenance, and SBOM concepts.
SAST, SCA, container scanning, and automated security controls.
Progressive delivery, canary, and blue/green deployment strategies.
Pipeline performance and reliability metrics.
Platform engineering and Internal Developer Platform practices.
Key Competencies
Able to become productive immediately in complex CI/CD and infrastructure environments.
Strong automation, architecture, and troubleshooting skills.
Capable of independently driving migrations from discovery through production cutover.
Able to recognize recurring patterns and convert them into reusable platform capabilities.
Strong technical leadership and mentoring skills.
Pragmatic approach to standardizing legacy and cloud-native environments.
Developer-focused approach to platform engineering and automation.
Strong cross-functional communication and technical documentation skills.
Comfortable making technical decisions and resolving blockers with limited oversight."