Lead DevOps Engineer

Andersen is hiring aLead DevOps Engineer for a project modernizing CI/CD processes and enhancing a cloud-based software quality platform with scalable public API capabilities.

The customer is a technology-driven software quality services provider that helps organizations improve the reliability, usability, and performance of their digital products. It combines quality engineering expertise, flexible delivery models, and technology-enabled services to support web, mobile, and other digital solutions across multiple industries. The company helps businesses accelerate software delivery, improve product quality, and enhance end-user experience through scalable testing and quality assurance services.

The project is focused on preparing a cloud-based software quality platform for public API exposure by delivering a public API documentation portal and status page. It also includes modernizing CI/CD processes through migration from CircleCI to GitHub Actions and integrating standardized reusable workflows across multiple repositories.

Responsibilities:

• Building and maintaining the public API documentation pipeline, including OpenAPI specification aggregation, validation, bundling, and publishing with Stoplight Elements.
• Integrating documentation pipelines into GitHub Actions reusable workflows.
• Evaluating, recommending, and implementing a public status page using New Relic Synthetics as the uptime monitoring source, including component-level alert policies and incident workflows.
• Managing monitoring and alerting infrastructure as code using Terraform, following the client's existing conventions and patterns.
• Supporting live production changes and migrations on AWS ECS Fargate, including service migrations, load balancer changes, and cluster-level changes with zero or minimal downtime.
• Owning release engineering for client-facing deliverables: design and manage safe, repeatable release processes (deployment strategies, health checks, automated rollback, release governance and change management).
• Contributing to the ongoing migration from CircleCI to GitHub Actions across 111 repositories by integrating new pipelines into reusable workflow templates.
• Embeding security and quality gates into CI/CD pipelines using Snyk and SonarQube (SAST, dependency/vulnerability scanning, code quality) as part of the release process.
• Working closely with development teams and leading a dedicated DevOps team. The role is focused on delivering and supporting client-facing products rather than working exclusively on internal infrastructure.
• Taking ownership of tasks end-to-end: understand the problem, define the approach, implement the solution, and drive it through to production safely.
• Making independent technical decisions, communicating trade-offs clearly, and ensuring reliable execution in production environments.

Must-haves:

• Experience in DevOps, Platform Engineering, or a similar role, with strong hands-on experience in AWS for 7+ years.
• Deep expertise in Amazon ECS/Fargate, including Service Connect, Graviton and multi-architecture builds, cluster design, load balancers (ALB/NLB), target groups, and deployment strategies.
• Proven experience performing live production migrations and infrastructure changes, with a strong understanding of blast radius, rollback strategies, and zero-downtime deployments.
• Strong hands-on experience with GitHub Actions, including reusable workflows, composite actions, and OIDC/IAM integration.
• Solid release engineering background: designing and running release pipelines, deployment strategies (blue/green, canary, staged rollouts), health checks, automated rollback, and release/change governance.
• Hands-on experience with Terraform in established codebases and the ability to work within existing architecture, conventions, and patterns.
• Experience with New Relic, particularly Synthetics, alert policies, APIs/webhooks, and NerdGraph; or strong experience with an equivalent observability platform such as Datadog or Grafana, with the ability to ramp up quickly.
• Hands-on experience with security and code-quality tooling in CI/CD: Snyk and SonarQube (SAST, dependency and vulnerability scanning, code quality gates).
• Experience with AWS CloudFormation (and Terraform) for infrastructure-as-code in AWS environments.
• Experience with OpenAPI tooling and docs-as-code pipelines.
• Strong senior-level autonomy: ability to take ownership of a task from problem definition through production deployment with minimal supervision.
• Proven ability to work responsibly with elevated and production access, following structured and reliable engineering practices.
• Strong technical judgment: able to evaluate trade-offs, communicate reasoning clearly, and make well-founded recommendations even when information is incomplete.
• Kubernetes is not required - the platform is primarily based on ECS/Fargate.
• Level of English - from Upper-Intermediate and above.

Nice-to-haves:

• Experience with API documentation and developer portal tools such as Stoplight Elements or ReadMe.
• Experience with status-page platforms such as Atlassian Statuspage or Better Stack.
• Hands-on experience migrating CI/CD pipelines from CircleCI to GitHub Actions.
• Familiarity with OpenTelemetry.
• Experience with AWS Infrastructure-as-Code tools such as CloudFormation and SAM.
• Mature experience with AI-assisted development workflows, including the ability to critically review, verify, and validate AI-generated output and explain the resulting implementation and technical decisions to the team.

Reasons why this job would be interesting to you:

• Experience in teamwork with leaders in FinTech, Healthcare, Retail, Telecom, and others. Andersen cooperates with such businesses as Samsung, Siemens, Johnson & Johnson, BNP Paribas, Ryanair, Mercedes, TUI, Verivox, Allianz, T-Systems, etc..
• The opportunity to change the project and/or develop expertise in an interesting business domain.
• Job conditions - you can work both fully remotely and from the office or can choose a hybrid variant.
• Guarantee of professional, financial, and career growth! The company has introduced systems of mentoring and adaptation for each new employee.
• The opportunity to earn up to an additional 1,000 EUR per month, depending on the level of expertise, which will be included in the annual bonus, by participating in the company's activities.
• Access to the corporate training portal, where the entire knowledge base of the company is collected and which is constantly updated.
• Bright corporate life (parties / pizza days / PlayStation / fruits / coffee / snacks / movies).
• Certification compensation (AWS, PMP, etc).
• Referral program.
• Private health insurance and sports compensation, depending on the type of employment.

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