Ascensus

Senior DevOps Engineer

Ascensus$120K — $165K *
Enterprise Technology
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 8+ years of DevOps experience in a major tech organization or large-scale enterprise environment.
  • Deep expertise in Cloud platforms (AWS strongly preferred), CI/CD tooling (GitHub Actions, GitLab Pipelines, Jenkins), Infrastructure as Code (Terraform), and Containerization & orchestration (Docker & Kubernetes).
  • Solid understanding of microservices architectures, networking, load balancing, and security.
  • Strong troubleshooting, analytical, and documentation skills.

Responsibilities

  • Lead design, implementation, and optimization of CI/CD pipelines using modern tools and best practices.
  • Architect and maintain scalable, resilient cloud-based infrastructure.
  • Implement Infrastructure as Code (IaC) standards using Terraform.
  • Enhance observability, monitoring, and alerting systems to improve reliability and reduce operational toil.
  • Partner with Dev, SRE, Architecture, and QA teams to support feature delivery, performance, and system stability.
  • Drive automation across build, deployment, configuration, and environment management workflows.
  • Evaluate emerging tools and practices to advance DevOps maturity at AGS.
  • Provide mentorship and technical leadership to other engineers.

Benefits

  • 401(k) match
  • Medical, Dental, Vision coverage
  • Paid time off
  • Opportunities for professional development and learning
Full Job Description

Section 1: Position Summary

We are seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer with 10+ years of hands‑on experience designing, building, and operating enterprise‑grade CI/CD platforms across hybrid environments (AWS and on‑premises). This role will lead platform standardization, progressive delivery, reliability engineering, and security‑by‑design to enable high‑quality, low‑risk software delivery at scale.

Key Responsibilities

CI/CD Platform & Environment Strategy

  • Design, implement, and operate a standardized CI/CD framework supporting Dev, QA, PartnerLab, Staging, and Production
  • Define promotion workflows with enforced quality gates and artifact immutability
  • Establish PartnerLab as a dedicated integration and validation environment with no direct path to Production
  • Ensure environment parity across AWS and on‑prem systems

Progressive Delivery & Release Engineering

  • Implement feature flags, canary deployments, blue‑green deployments, and phased rollouts
  • Enable automated rollback based on health checks, error rates, and SLO breaches
  • Maintain full release traceability from commit through production

Test Automation & Quality Engineering

  • Integrate unit, integration, regression, security, and performance testing into CI/CD pipelines
  • Enforce automated quality gates before environment promotion
  • Support manual validation workflows with controlled access, observability, and test artifacts

Database & Data Automation

  • Automate database schema versioning, migrations, rollbacks, and validation
  • Build lower‑environment refresh pipelines sourced from production data
  • Enforce data masking and PII anonymization for non‑production environments
  • Validate data integrity and consistency post‑refresh

Observability, Reliability & Operations

  • Define and enforce observability standards across logs, metrics, and traces
  • Implement service health dashboards, alerts, and incident signals
  • Integrate deployment health into automated release decisions
  • Support on‑call readiness, incident response, and post‑incident reviews

Security, Governance & Compliance

  • Embed security scanning, secrets management, and access controls into pipelines
  • Enforce least‑privilege IAM, credential rotation, and artifact integrity checks
  • Align CI/CD workflows with enterprise change management and audit requirements
Required Technical Skills

Cloud & Infrastructure

  • AWS (mandatory): ECS, EKS, Lambda, RDS, IAM, CloudFormation, CloudWatch
  • Hybrid infrastructure experience across on‑prem VMs, bare metal, and internal networks
  • Terraform for modular, reusable, policy‑compliant infrastructure

CI/CD & Platform Engineering

  • GitHub Enterprise & GitHub Actions (reusable workflows, templates, runners, environments)
  • CI/CD orchestration across hybrid AWS and on‑prem topologies
  • Artifact versioning, promotion, and immutability strategies

Containers & Orchestration

  • Docker image design, optimization, and security hardening
  • Kubernetes (EKS and on‑prem) deployment patterns, scaling, and lifecycle management
  • Helm for deployment standardization

Testing, Release Safety & Analysis

  • Automated testing frameworks (unit, integration, regression, performance)
  • Static and dynamic analysis tools (code quality, security, dependency scanning)
  • Feature flag platforms or equivalent internal capabilities

Database & Data Management

  • Oracle and Microsoft SQL Server (mandatory)
  • Schema migration tooling with automated rollback
  • Data masking, anonymization, and controlled refresh automation

Observability & Reliability Engineering

  • Metrics, logging, and tracing with Prometheus, Grafana, Splunk, New Relic, CloudWatch, OpenTelemetry, ELK
  • SLO‑driven alerting and deployment health evaluation (e.g., Uptrends, PagerDuty)
  • Automated failure containment and rollback strategies

Security & Secrets Management

  • HashiCorp Vault, AWS Secrets Manager, or equivalent
  • Secure pipeline design with controlled credential access
  • Compliance‑ready logging, approvals, and traceability
Soft Skills & Delivery Expectations
  • Experience in regulated or financial services environments
  • Strong documentation, runbooks, and architectural communication
  • Proven collaboration with application, infrastructure, security, and QA teams
  • Comfortable operating in enterprise, onshore delivery models

The national average salary range for this role is 120-165k in base pay, exclusive of any bonuses and benefits.This base salary range represents the low and high end of the salary range for this position. Actual salary offered will vary and may be above or below the range based on various factors including but not limited to location, experience, performance, and internal pay alignment. We do not anticipate that candidates hired will begin at the top of the range however, from time to time, it may occur on a case-by-case basis. Other rewards and benefits may include: 401(k) match, Medical, Dental, Vision, Paid-Time-Off, etc. For more information, please visit careers.ascensus.com/#Benefits.

About Ascensus

Ascensus is a financial services company that provides retirement, health, and education savings plans to individuals and businesses. The company was founded in 1980 and is headquartered in Dresher, Pennsylvania. Ascensus has over 4,000 employees and serves more than 12 million customers nationwide. The company offers a wide range of retirement plan solutions, including 401(k), 403(b), and IRA plans. Ascensus is committed to helping its customers save for retirement and achieve their financial goals. The company has received several awards for its excellent customer service and innovative products.
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4,000 employees
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1980

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