DevOps Engineer (GitHub)

Job Title: DevOps Engineer (GitHub)Location: New York, NY 10004About the RoleWe are seeking a talented DevOps Engineer with strong experience in GitHub to join our team and support our customer. This is a hybrid role: primarily remote, with the flexibility to collaborate onsite at our New York City office two days a week.You’ll play a key role in designing, building, and maintaining robust, scalable CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure, driving automation and best practices across development and deployment lifecycles. You will also bring a design mindset to help architect CI/CD pipelines and implement automation.Key ResponsibilitiesCI/CD & GitHub Management:Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions (or similar).Manage GitHub repositories, workflows, secrets, and security controls.Automate code quality checks, testing, and deployment processes.Infrastructure & Deployment:Implement infrastructure as code (Terraform, Azure Bicep, or similar).Support deployments across cloud environments (Azure preferred).Monitor, troubleshoot, and optimize performance and costs.System Design & Architecture:Collaborate with solution architects and developers to design systems that are scalable, fault-tolerant, and aligned with business needs.Contribute to high-level architecture decisions, ensuring strong observability, logging, and security.Collaboration & Enablement:Partner closely with development teams to embed DevOps best practices.Write clear documentation for pipelines, environments, and operational processes.Observability & Reliability:Implement monitoring and alerting systems (Azure Monitor, App Insights, or equivalent).Drive proactive improvements to ensure uptime and rapid incident resolution.Requirements3+ years of experience in DevOps, site reliability, or platform engineering roles.Expertise in GitHub ecosystem, including Actions, branch protections, and secrets management.Solid experience with CI/CD tools and pipelines, infrastructure as code (Terraform, Bicep, ARM, or CloudFormation).Strong understanding of system design principles, microservices architecture, and building secure, resilient systems.Experience with cloud platforms (Azure strongly preferred; AWS or GCP also valuable).Familiarity with containerization (Docker, Kubernetes a plus).Good grasp of monitoring/observability tools and proactive reliability practices.Excellent problem-solving and communication skills.Nice to HaveExposure to AI/ML workloads or integrating Copilot-type tools into pipelines.Hands-on experience with Azure DevOps, Service Bus, Event Grid, or Logic Apps.Exposure in designing CI/CD pipelines for finance-focused technology platforms, applications and systems.Job Types: Full-time, ContractWork Location: Hybrid remote in New York, NY 10004