Cloud/DevOps Engineer - III

Software Guidance & Assistance, Inc., (SGA), is searching for a Cloud/DevOps Engineer - III for a contract assignment with one of our premier Financial Services clients in San Francisco, CA .
Responsibilities :
We're seeking a hands-on Senior DevOps Engineer for a contract position to build and maintain secure, resilient CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation for our SaaS Identity Governance platform.

• Design, implement, and maintain secure, resilient CI/CD pipelines to automate build, testing, deployment, and release processes
• Write automation scripts and tools for deployment workflows
• Integrate automated security and compliance scanning into CI/CD pipelines
• Work closely with engineering and security teams on deployment automation
• Collaborate with product teams to identify and prioritize automation work for upcoming releases

Required Skills :

• 10+ years of hands on DevOps/Cloud engineering experience
• Strong hands-on experience with:
  • CI/CD tools (Jenkins, GitLab CI, GitHub Actions, or similar)
  • Production experience with IaC
  • Docker and containerized workflows
  • At least one major cloud platform (AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud Platform)
  • SaaS/multi-tenant platforms
  • API integrations at scale
  • Scripting (Python, Bash, or PowerShell)
  • Integrating multiple third-party platforms and services
  • Strong troubleshooting skills

Preferred Skills :

• Hands on experience with:
  • Master's Computer Science preferred
  • API testing and integration patterns
  • Building and integrating APIs for platform connectivity and automation
  • Disaster recovery planning and testing
  • Monitoring and observability tools (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, Datadog, or similar)
• Certifications: AWS/Azure/Google Cloud Platform Professional, CKA, Terraform Associate

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