DevOps Senior Engineer

Ampcus Inc. is a certified global provider of a broad range of Technology and Business consulting services. We are in search of a highly motivated candidate to join our talented Team.

Job Title: DevOps Senior Engineer

Location(s): Miami, FL


Job Summary
We are seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer with strong Harness.io, CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), and platform automation experience to lead application migrations from Jenkins and GitHub Actions into standardized Harness CI/CD structures.

This is a hands-on technical leadership role focused on establishing reusable Harness patterns, solving complex migration challenges, optimizing CI/CD performance, and providing technical direction to engineers executing application migrations.

The environment includes Java, Go, Node.js, and Python applications deployed across AWS and on-premises datacenter infrastructure, with Kubernetes, Helm, OpenTofu/Terraform, Ansible, and GitOps supporting 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-premises 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 experience in DevOps, CI/CD, platform engineering, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), build/release engineering, or infrastructure automation.
• 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 or modernization activities.
• Experience with GitHub Actions and Git-native CI/CD workflows.
• Strong understanding of Git, branching and 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.
• Hands-on Kubernetes and Helm experience, including designing and maintaining reusable Helm charts.
• Strong working knowledge of AWS infrastructure and application delivery.
• Experience supporting hybrid cloud and on-premises 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.
• 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.
• Experience designing Harness pipelines and template architectures at organizational scale.
• Experience with Harness Git Experience and configuration-as-code practices.
• Experience with 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.
• Experience with GitOps architecture and implementation.
• AWS and Kubernetes platform engineering experience.
• CI/CD performance optimization and delivery telemetry experience.
• Experience with REST APIs and integration automation.
• Knowledge of secrets management and software supply-chain security.

Governance and Performance Knowledge

• Experience with the following is strongly desirable:
• DORA metrics, including 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 Software Bill of Materials (SBOM) concepts.
• Static Application Security Testing (SAST), Software Composition Analysis (SCA), container scanning, and automated security controls.
• Progressive delivery, canary deployments, and blue/green deployment strategies.
• Pipeline performance and reliability metrics.
• Platform engineering and Internal Developer Platform practices.

Key Competencies

• Ability to become productive immediately in complex CI/CD and infrastructure environments.
• Strong automation, architecture, and troubleshooting skills.
• Ability to independently drive migrations from discovery through production cutover.
• Ability to identify 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.
• Ability to make technical decisions and resolve blockers with limited oversight.

Location:

• Miami, FL preferred; remote candidates considered.

Ampcus is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, protected veterans or individuals with disabilities.