Sr DevOps Engineer

Location: Englewood, CO

Pay Rate: $88.04/hour

Job Title: Sr Dev Ops Engineer

Industry: Aviation / Aerospace & Defense

Partner: PDS Tech Commercial

PDS Tech Commercial is partnering with a leader in the aviation industry to find an experienced Engineer ready to design, automate, and optimize the infrastructure that keeps sophisticated software solutions moving from development to deployment.

In this high-impact role, you’ll work at the intersection of Dev Ops, virtualization, containerization, release engineering, and infrastructure automation . You’ll help create secure, scalable, and repeatable deployment environments across cloud, on-premises, hybrid, and edge systems while collaborating with talented software, systems, QA, security, and operations teams.

If you’re the kind of engineer who thrives on solving complex infrastructure challenges and believes great Dev Ops is about enabling teams to move faster without sacrificing reliability, security, or quality, this could be your next opportunity.

As a Sr Dev Ops Engineer , you’ll play a key role within a larger software development team, rapidly delivering operational capabilities to the field.

Your day-to-day responsibilities will include:

• Designing, implementing, and maintaining scalable CI/CD pipelines supporting multiple deployment approaches across cloud, on-premises, and hybrid environments.

• Automating infrastructure provisioning and configuration management to create reliable and consistent environments throughout the delivery lifecycle.

• Optimizing and standardizing deployment workflows to establish repeatable release processes across varying product and customer requirements.

• Designing and managing complex infrastructure using virtualization, containerization, and orchestration technologies .

• Monitoring, troubleshooting, and improving system performance and reliability across distributed systems and complex integrations.

• Working hands-on with technologies including RHEL KVM, VMware, Docker, Kubernetes, Open Shift, Git Hub, and CI/CD tooling .

• Establishing virtualization and containerization environments for edge deployments and stand‑alone compute systems .

• Collaborating with development, QA, security, product, and operations teams to align deployment strategies with architectural, security, and operational requirements.

• Driving continuous improvement by refining operational tooling and developing best‑practice documentation for deployment and release operations.

• Supporting configuration control and coordinating release‑readiness activities.

• Creating process documentation and helping train engineers on environment configuration and deployment.

• Mentoring software and systems engineers while promoting strong Dev Ops methodologies and engineering practices.

• Communicating effectively with team members and key stakeholders.

Travel may be required. This position requires the ability to work effectively in an office or hybrid environment.

We’re looking for a seasoned Dev Ops professional with strong technical depth and the ability to operate successfully in a collaborative, fast‑paced engineering environment.

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field .

• 8 years of Dev Ops or related professional experience .

• A higher‑level relevant degree may substitute for some experience.

• Relevant professional experience may also be considered in place of the required education.
  Without a degree, a minimum of 12 years of related experience is required.

• Hands‑on virtualization development experience with extensive knowledge of…