Senior DevOps Engineer

Role: Senior DevOps Engineer Locations: Charlotte, NC; Plano, TX; Phoenix, AZ; Johnston, RI Experience: Min. 12+ Years NOTE: All Visas are fine for this position, Need a Genuine candidates. Role Overview: We are looking for a Senior DevOps Engineer to design, automate, and maintain our cloud infrastructure and continuous delivery pipelines. In this role, you will lead the administration of our Harness CI/CD, RO (Release Orchestration) platform, strengthen the platform using policy-as-code using Open Policy Agent (OPA), and manage AWS cloud environments using Terraform and Ansible. Additionally, we are exploring Agentic AI to build intelligent DevOps automation. Candidates with experience or a strong desire to build AI-driven operational bots will have an opportunity to lead those initiatives. Key Responsibilities: • CI/CD Platform Administration: Manage and optimize deployment pipelines and workflows using Harness CI/CD, Jenkins, GitHub Actions. • Policy & Governance: Implement policy-as-code and compliance guardrails across pipelines using Open Policy Agent (OPA) and Harness Admin controls. • Infrastructure & Configuration Management: Provision cloud environments on AWS using Terraform and automate server configurations with Ansible. • Container Orchestration: Deploy, manage, and scale microservices on K8s clusters. • Automation & Scripting: Write clean, maintainable scripts using Python and Bash to automate operational tasks. • Version Control: Standardize branching strategies, pull request workflows, and repository management using Git. • AI Bot Development (Opportunity): Collaborate on integrating tool-using AI agents into pipeline diagnostics, automated incident response, and Slack/ChatOps workflows. Required Qualifications: • Minimum 8+ years of experience in DevOps, DevSecOps, Platform Engineering, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), Cloud Engineering, or related IT disciplines. • Proven experience owning the end-to-end software delivery lifecycle, including build, test, release, deployment, rollback, monitoring, and production support. • Demonstrated ability to manage enterprise-scale deployment platforms supporting multiple applications and development teams. • Strong troubleshooting and root-cause analysis skills in complex distributed environments. Harness Platform Expertise: Minimum 2+ years of hands-on Harness Administration experience. • Experience creating and maintaining Harness templates, connectors, secrets, environments, service definitions, and deployment workflows. • Strong understanding of Harness governance, RBAC, policies, approvals, and platform administration capabilities. • Experience supporting large-scale CI/CD implementations using Harness. CI/CD & Release Management: • Extensive experience designing and operating CI/CD pipelines using Harness, Jenkins, and GitHub Actions. • Strong understanding of build automation, deployment automation, release orchestration, and environment promotion strategies. • Experience implementing reusable pipeline architectures and deployment best practices. Governance & Security: • Hands-on experience implementing Open Policy Agent (OPA) and policy-as-code frameworks. • Knowledge of CI/CD governance, security controls, compliance enforcement, and audit readiness. • Experience integrating security controls into software delivery pipelines. Cloud & Container Platforms: • Strong working experience with AWS services and cloud-native architecture principles. • Hands-on expertise with EKS, OpenShift, Kubernetes, and container ecosystem technologies. • Experience managing production-scale cloud environments and containerized applications. Infrastructure as Code & Configuration Management: • Advanced Terraform expertise including module development, remote state management, and infrastructure lifecycle management. • Strong Ansible experience for automation, orchestration, and system configuration management. • Proven ability to build scalable and reusable infrastructure automation solutions. Programming & Automation: • Strong proficiency in Python with demonstrated experience developing automation frameworks, platform tools, and operational utilities. • Strong Bash scripting expertise for Linux-based automation and administration tasks. • Experience integrating REST APIs and platform services to automate complex workflows. Source Control: • Deep understanding of Git workflows, branching strategies, repository governance, code review processes, and GitOps practices. Desired / Bonus Qualifications (Agentic AI): • Experience or strong interest in Agentic AI • Familiarity with LLM function/tool calling (OpenAI / Anthropic APIs, Model Context Protocol) to trigger DevOps tools programmatically. • Understanding of how to build guardrails, human-in-the-loop approvals, and automated troubleshooting bots for operational workflows.