As a DevOps Engineer, you will build and maintain infrastructure and cloud-native systems, automate CI/CD processes, and ensure system reliability and observability.
As a DevOps Engineer, you will play a critical role in building and maintaining the infrastructure, tooling, and cloud-native systems powering our clients' portfolio management and trading applications.
You will work closely with engineering teams to design scalable environments, streamline CI/CD, automate deployments, and ensure the reliability, security, and observability of production systems. This role is ideal for someone who thrives in fast-moving environments, learns quickly, and takes full ownership of delivery.
Responsibilities
- Build, enhance, and maintain CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, GitLab Runners, or similar tools.
- Design and manage cloud-native infrastructures (AWS preferred), including networking, compute, IAM, and managed services.
- Automate environment provisioning using Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform).
- Implement and manage containerized workflows with Docker and Kubernetes (EKS or similar).
- Collaborate with engineering teams to support deployments of C#, Python, and React-based applications.
- Develop internal tooling for build automation, monitoring, logging, and performance optimization.
- Improve release processes, reduce deployment friction, and increase system reliability.
- Monitor environments using Datadog, CloudWatch, or equivalent observability tooling.
- Troubleshoot high-priority production issues and drive root-cause analysis.
- Promote DevOps best practices around version control, branching strategies, testing, and automation.
- Ensure operational maturity, including backup strategies, access controls, and security reviews.
Required Experience
- 5+ years of DevOps/SRE/Platform Engineering experience in cloud-native environments.
- Strong hands-on experience with AWS (EC2, ECS/EKS, Lambda, S3, IAM, VPC, CloudFormation/Terraform).
- Expertise in CI/CD pipelines — GitLab, Jenkins, GitHub Actions, or equivalent.
- Strong containerization experience (Docker; Kubernetes/EKS strongly preferred).
- Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) with Terraform.
- Scripting skills in Python.
- Familiarity supporting C#/.NET Core, Python services, and React front-end builds.
- Experience building secure, scalable, and highly available production environments.
- Strong understanding of networking, monitoring, logging, and alerting frameworks.
- Ability to work independently in a high-paced, high-ownership environment.
Preferred Experience
- Experience supporting financial systems, trading platforms, or real-time applications.
- Familiarity with SQL Server and data-centric workflows.
- Knowledge of microservices, REST APIs, and distributed system design.
- Experience with Agile/Scrum and modern SDLC practices.
McLaren Strategic Solutions is a leading-edge global technology consulting firm, addressing critical challenges across industries such as retail, financial services, and healthcare. Integrating a powerful ecosystem of platforms with capital-efficient execution, McLaren specializes in digital transformation to help businesses optimize operations, accelerate revenue, and achieve scalable outcomes. McLaren’s expertise spans the development of customer-centric applications, modernizing systems for cost-effectiveness and security, and leveraging cloud scalability for future-ready architectures. With a deep commitment to operational excellence, McLaren provides comprehensive managed services, including application maintenance, cybersecurity, platform solutions, and AI-optimized operations, ensuring seamless, secure, and efficient performance.
From supply chain automation to compliance and analytics, McLaren drives measurable impact: improving workforce productivity, reducing inventory costs, and cutting technology ownership expenses. With its emphasis on automation and zero business downtime, McLaren facilitates seamless migrations from legacy systems to modern platforms, enabling organizations to harness the full potential of digital transformation. Backed by strategic partnerships and a proven delivery model, McLaren empowers clients to innovate, modernize, and achieve lasting success in today’s digital economy.
McLaren is a certified minority owned business through the NMSDC and has a mission to place more people from non-traditional backgrounds into sustainable technology careers. Through partnerships with non-profit technology programs in underserved communities and Veteran organizations, candidates transition from tech training programs into real IT careers at McLaren. Our unique recruitment policy allows us to create exceptional teams, bringing a broad spectrum of experience to our company and creating anything but a traditional consulting firm.
Visit McLaren Strategic Solutions to learn more!
Doran Jones Inc. is proud to be part of the McLaren Strategic Ventures Group.
Top Skills
AWS
C#
Docker
Gitlab
Jenkins
Kubernetes
Python
React
Terraform
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