Pyramid Consulting, Inc
DevOps Engineer
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Job Title: DevOps / Tech Release Engineer
Location: Watford, UK (Hybrid – 3 days onsite)
Contract Duration: 6 Months
Mandatory Skills
- AWS Cloud Engineering
- DevOps & Release Engineering
- CI/CD (GitHub Actions)
- Kubernetes & Docker
- Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
- Release & Cutover Management
Role Overview
We are looking for an experienced DevOps / Technical Release Engineer to manage and coordinate application releases, production deployments, and live cutovers across cloud environments. The ideal candidate should have strong expertise in AWS, CI/CD automation, Kubernetes, deployment strategies, rollback planning, and technical leadership during production releases.
Key Responsibilities
Release & Cutover Management
- Manage infrastructure state changes during live production cutovers.
- Ensure staging, pre-production, and production environments remain synchronized.
- Coordinate software releases, dependencies, patches, and deployment schedules.
- Detect and resolve environment drift before production deployment.
- Execute rollback procedures safely while protecting production data.
- Maintain cutover risk registers and contingency plans.
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Command Centre & Stakeholder Management
- Lead the technical Command Centre during live production releases.
- Coordinate engineers, DBAs, infrastructure teams, and support teams.
- Act as the primary communication point for technical and business stakeholders.
- Translate technical issues into business impact updates.
Cloud & Deployment
- Manage deployments across AWS cloud environments.
- Work with load balancers, Route 53, Cloudflare, and CDN configurations.
- Perform deployment validation using automated smoke tests and health checks.
- Partner with Data Engineers for schema migrations and data validation.
DevOps & Automation
- Automate manual deployment activities using CI/CD pipelines.
- Implement Infrastructure as Code and environment promotion strategies.
- Manage Kubernetes/Docker deployments.
- Support Helm Charts or Kustomize for multi-environment deployments.
- Follow Git branching strategies (GitFlow, Trunk-Based Development, Feature Branching).
Required Skills
Cloud & Infrastructure
- AWS (Mandatory)
- Azure or GCP knowledge is beneficial
- Route53
- Cloudflare
- Load Balancers
- CDN
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DevOps
- GitHub Actions
- Infrastructure as Code (Terraform/CloudFormation preferred)
- CI/CD Automation
- Release Engineering
- Environment Management
Containers
- Kubernetes (K8s)
- Docker
- Helm
- Kustomize
Databases
- SQL / NoSQL
- Liquibase
- Flyway
Data Replication & Migration
Programming
- Experience in one or more of:
- Python
- JavaScript
- TypeScript
- Java
- Groovy
- C++
Version Control
- Git
- GitFlow
- Trunk-Based Development
- Feature Branching
Required Experience
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, IT, or related field.
- 3–5+ years of experience in DevOps, Platform Engineering, or Technical Release Engineering.
- Experience managing production deployments and live cutovers.
- Strong understanding of monolithic, microservices, and distributed architectures.
- Knowledge of zero-downtime deployment strategies and rollback planning.
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
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