Senior CI/CD Engineer

 

Do you want to work on cutting-edge projects with the world’s best IT engineers? Do you wish you could control which projects to work on and choose your own pay rate? Are you interested in the future of work and how the cloud will form teams? If so - the Gigster Talent Network is for you.

Our clients rely on our Network for two main areas, Software Development and Cloud Services. In some cases, they need help building great new products, in others they want our expertise in migrating, maintaining, and optimizing their cloud solutions.

At Gigster, whether working with entrepreneurs to realize ‘the next great vision’ or with Fortune 500 companies to deliver a big product launch, we build really cool enterprise software on cutting-edge technology.

The Role

Our client is a US-based company focused on driving the next generation of vehicle and mobile technology.

We’re looking for a highly experienced Senior CI/CD Engineer to lead and evolve our deployment automation, infrastructure-as-code, and developer tooling. This is a hands-on role for someone who loves reducing engineering toil, shipping stable code at speed, and building pipelines that scale across multiple teams and environments.

What You’ll Be Doing

Own and Architect CI/CD Pipelines

• Design, build, and optimize pipelines from scratch using GitHub Actions and CircleCI.
• Implement conditional workflows, reusable templates, and parameterized jobs.
• Automate deployment steps (e.g., DB migrations, asset builds, health checks) for Ruby on Rails monoliths.
  
  

Automate Infrastructure & Environments

• Use Terraform (modular design, remote backends) to manage AWS infrastructure.
• Automate ECS deployments (Fargate) using AWS CLI, Copilot, or Terraform modules.
• Integrate infrastructure updates into CI/CD pipelines and support GitOps workflows.
  
  

Scripting & Dev Tooling

• Write production-grade scripts in Ruby and Bash to automate environment tasks and developer workflows.
• Code AWS Lambda functions (not just configure them), supporting microservice execution.
• Manage environment configuration (YAML, JSON, tfvars, .env) and feature toggles for multiple stages.
  
  

Docker & Artifact Management

• Build, tag, and push optimized Docker images using multistage builds.
• Leverage ECR with lifecycle policies, vulnerability scanning, and caching for faster pipelines.
  
  

Monitoring & Observability

• Maintain 99.999% uptime across Dev, Staging, and Production environments.
• Use Datadog for health checks, alerting, and deployment verification.
• Track and report on metrics like deployment frequency, lead time, and MTTR.
  
  

Security, Compliance & Quality Gates

• Implement pipeline security practices (e.g., least-privilege IAM, secret encryption).
• Integrate open-source license checks and container scanning tools like Trivy, Wiz, or GitHub Advanced Security.
• Ensure audit logging, artifact integrity, and compliance gates are built into the CI/CD process.
  
  

Progressive Delivery & GitOps

• Design strategies for canary, blue/green, and feature flag-based deployments.
• Apply GitOps principles (PR-driven infra, continuous reconciliation).
• Use guardrails (e.g., OPA, Sentinel, Conftest) to enforce infra policy in pipelines.
  
  

Developer Experience & Collaboration

• Collaborate with app developers, DevOps, QA, and security teams.
• Attend squad standups and recommend CI/CD workflow improvements.
• Review PRs related to pipelines and IaC, providing actionable feedback.
• Mentor junior engineers and help teams adopt CI/CD best practices.
  
  

Must-Have (Non-Negotiable) Skills

• 5+ years of DevOps/CI/CD experience.
• Proficient in Ruby and Bash scripting.
• Deep experience with CI/CD pipeline architecture (min. 2 years designing pipelines from scratch).
• 3+ years hands-on experience with CircleCI and GitHub Actions.
• Strong Docker knowledge, including multistage builds and ECR usage.
• 5+ years of Terraform experience (modular, backends, debugging state).
• Proven AWS ECS (Fargate) deployment expertise (min. 2 years).
• Experience coding AWS Lambda functions directly.
• Daily use of Datadog for deployment health, monitoring, and alerting.
• Solid understanding of security in pipelines: IAM, secrets mgmt, audit logging.
  
  

Nice-to-Have Skills

• Experience supporting large Rails monoliths.
• GitOps tooling and practices.
• Familiarity with Rails-specific testing tools (RSpec, Capybara).
• Linting/security tools (e.g., Brakeman, RuboCop, CodeClimate).
• Working knowledge of Python.
  
  

 Culture & Ways of Working

• High-ownership mindset - you don’t just build, you improve and evolve.
• Collaborative - you thrive in cross-functional teams and give great feedback.
• Fast-moving but quality-focused - automation is your default, not an afterthought.
• You coach juniors and unblock teams with clarity and calm.
  
  

Why You’ll Love This Role

• You’ll be the go-to CI/CD authority - architecting pipelines that truly scale.
• Work in a low-bureaucracy, high-impact environment.
• Own decisions, tooling, and delivery end to end.
• Automate everything - reduce toil and increase speed.
• Be part of a talented, distributed team that values smart thinking and clean execution.

 

Our recruitment process

• Recruiter interview (30 min)
• Tech interview (30 min)
• Two (potentially three) interviews with the client.

We strive to move efficiently from step to step so that the recruitment process can be as fast as possible.

 

What we offer

• Totally remote, full-time (40h/week)
• Monday to Friday, flexible work hours (but around Central or East Coast Standard Time office hours)
• Long-term, no end date contractor agreement
• Payment in USD, by-weekly or monthly - your choice
• PTO: 1.67 days paid time off per calendar month worked and national holidays of the country where you are living.