GitOps & CI​/CD Engineer

Location: Almont

Description:
Remote

Our client seeks a Git Ops & CI/CD Engineer to design, implement, and optimize automation, deployment, and delivery platforms supporting enterprise application life cycles. The role focuses on secure, observable, and repeatable delivery across development through production using a Git Ops deployment model with Git as the source of truth. Collaboration with Software Engineering, Architecture, Infrastructure, Security, QA, and Operations teams will ensure consistent build, test, packaging, configuration, deployment, promotion, and rollback practices.

Due to client requirements, applicants must be willing and able to work on a w2 basis. For our w2 consultants, we offer a great benefits package that includes Medical, Dental, and Vision benefits, 401k with company matching, and life insurance.

Rate: $67.00 to $72.00/hr. w2

Responsibilities:

• Design, implement, maintain, and improve Git Ops deployment processes across enterprise environments.
• Maintain Git repositories for Kubernetes application configuration, environment configuration, Helm values, manifests, and deployment definitions.
• Manage and support Git Ops tooling such as Argo CD for automated Kubernetes deployment and reconciliation.
• Establish patterns for promoting versions through Development, QA, UAT, Staging, and Production.
• Implement automated detection and remediation of configuration drift.
• Maintain separation between application source, infrastructure code, environment configuration, and secrets.
• Establish reusable Git Ops templates and standards for teams.
• Implement deployment approval and promotion processes per environment.
• Maintain rollback and recovery processes for failed deployments.
• Ensure production deployments are reproducible and traceable to approved source control changes.
• Design, develop, and maintain CI pipelines to build and validate applications.
• Develop reusable CI pipeline templates.
• Automate compilation, dependency restoration, testing, security scanning, packaging, and artifact publication.
• Manage container image builds and publication to enterprise registries.
• Implement consistent versioning and artifact management.
• Ensure immutable build artifacts and environment promotions.
• Integrate automated unit, integration, security, dependency, and quality checks.
• Optimize build performance, reliability, and feedback times.
• Troubleshoot pipeline failures and reduce recurring delivery issues.
• Support application deployment to Azure Kubernetes Service.
• Develop Kubernetes deployment standards and reusable patterns.
• Work with Helm, Kustomize, manifests, Config Maps, Secrets, Services, and Ingress or Gateway resources.
• Support service mesh and ingress configuration where applicable.
• Assist teams with containerization and Kubernetes requirements.
• Ensure applications expose readiness, liveness, startup, and health checks.
• Support zero-downtime and controlled deployment strategies.
• Implement rolling updates, blue/green, or canary deployments as required.
• Integrate delivery with Infrastructure as Code practices.
• Develop automation with Terraform, Power Shell, Bash, Python, or similar.
• Support Terraform-based Azure and Kubernetes infrastructure deployments.
• Ensure source-control and peer-review practices for delivery.
• Reduce manual configuration through automation.
• Support CI/CD and Git Ops integration with Azure services including AKS, ACR, Key Vault, Azure Dev Ops, Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, managed identities, and private networking.
• Support private build agents and secured access to internal resources.
• Work within enterprise hub-and-spoke networking and private-cloud models.
• Establish secure patterns for managing configuration across environments.
• Integrate Kubernetes workloads with Azure Key Vault.
• Ensure sensitive data is not stored in source control.
• Support certificate lifecycle and secret rotation automation.
• Separate static configuration from environment-specific configuration.
• Embed security controls in CI/CD workflows, including dependency and container image scanning, static analysis, secret detection, infrastructure configuration and policy validation.
• Collaborate with Security to meet security requirements.
• Maintain RBAC and least-privilege access for agents, systems, and service accounts.
• Ensure deployment activities are auditable and traceable.
• Integrate applications with monitoring, logging, tracing, and alerting standards.
• Support Open Telemetry, Grafana, Loki, Tempo, Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, and Application Insights.
• Provide visibility into deployment status, failures, application health, and Git Ops sync.
• Assist with troubleshooting deployment and runtime issues.
• Help define operational readiness for new services.
• Develop and document enterprise CI/CD and Git Ops standards.
• Standardize repository structures, branching, pull requests, and workflows.
• Define ownership boundaries across platform stakeholders.
• Promote configuration changes through source-control workflows.
• Participate in deployment and platform architecture reviews.
• Identify opportunities to…