Senior DevOps Engineer, (Senior Consultant, Engineering & Technical Services)

Responsibilities

The role involves designing and maintaining cloud infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, and security controls to support scalable digital services. Additionally, the engineer will contribute to backend development, system integrations, and provide ongoing operational support for production environments.

Requirements

Candidates must have at least 6 years of experience in software engineering, DevOps, or cloud engineering with strong hands-on skills in Infrastructure as Code and CI/CD. Proficiency in cloud networking, security practices, and backend development is required to bridge business objectives with technical execution.

Skills

• DevOps
• Cloud infrastructure
• Terraform
• CloudFormation
• CI/CD pipelines
• Infrastructure as Code
• Backend engineering
• API integration
• Observability
• Security controls
• Containerization
• Identity and access management
• Incident response
• Agile methodologies
• System orchestration
• Vulnerability management

Benefits

• Medical insurance
• HSA contributions
• Dental insurance
• Vision insurance
• 401(k) with 4% match
• Paid parental leave
• Paid FMLA
• Paid time off
• Federal holidays
• Birthday holiday
• Sick leave
• Education allowance
• Wellness allowance
• Tech allowance
• Referral bonus
• Pet insurance
• Employee assistance program
• Legal support
• Life insurance
• Disability coverage

About this role

Job Requirements
Senior DevOps Engineer(Senior Consultant, Engineering & Technical Services)
We are seeking a part time DevOps Engineer as part of our Senior Consultant, Engineering & Technical Services career path to build and operate the technical foundation for a modern digital platform. This role will combine cloud infrastructure, DevOps, and backend engineering to support the development and production delivery of secure, scalable, and reusable digital services. Initially, this role will focus heavily on establishing cloud
infrastructure, development environments, CI/CD pipelines, deployment automation, security controls, and observability needed to support reliable application delivery. As the infrastructure matures, the role will expand into hands-on backend development, API and system integrations, and ongoing production and operational support. This is a fully remote role.
At Fearless, this Senior Consultant collaborates with cross functional teams to align the technical vision, implementation, and quality of software systems across development, reliability, testing, and operations. This role will possess the skills to be able to bridge business objectives with technical execution in software development, infrastructure, security, and testing at an advanced application level of proficiency. The Sr. Consultant role will work on projects that allow them to ensure scalable, secure, and reliable solutions while mentoring engineers, fostering collaboration, and aligning stakeholders with product and project goals.
Fearless Your Responsibilities in this Role:
●​Design, configure, and maintain cloud infrastructure across development, testing, staging, and production environments.
●​Establish and maintain Infrastructure as Code using Terraform, CloudFormation, or equivalent technologies.
●​Design and maintain CI/CD pipelines supporting automated application build, testing, deployment, validation, and rollback.
●​Automate environment provisioning and application deployment to improve reliability, repeatability, and release velocity.
●​Configure and support networking, storage, compute, containers, and application runtime environments.
●​Implement automated quality gates, security scanning, and deployment validation.
●​Establish centralized logging, metrics, tracing, alerting, and operational dashboards.
●​Implement and support secrets management, encryption, identity and access management, role-based access controls, and audit logging.
●​Support vulnerability remediation, security reviews, penetration testing remediation, and other security and compliance activities.
●​Support backup, recovery, failover, disaster recovery, and operational-readiness practices.
●​Monitor application and infrastructure health and troubleshoot production, deployment, performance, and integration issues.
●​Participate in incident response and root-cause analysis.
●​Partner closely with application engineers to move code through environments and into production.
●​Contribute hands-on to backend services, APIs, microservices, and system integrations as infrastructure needs decrease.
●​Support secure data exchange, API integrations, and service orchestration.
●​Create and maintain deployment procedures, infrastructure documentation, operational runbooks, and support documentation.
●​Participate in Agile ceremonies, technical planning, estimation, release coordination, and production cutovers.
The Impact You Will Create in this Role:
Fearless Impact:
Fosters collaboration with cross functional teams by taking the initiative and driving conversations
Coach, mentor, and develop peers that elevate team capability and technical expertise using clear and persuasive communication of engineering solutions to both technical and non-technical audiences
Earn the trust of your customer and teammates by delivering world class services.
Drive accountability and delivery by ensuring project objectives are not only met on time but aligned with client priorities and Fearless standards of excellence. Anticipate risks and implement proactive solutions to keep initiatives on track.
Take ownership of risk management by monitoring deliverables across the team, identifying issues early, and coaching teammates on mitigation strategies while keeping leadership informed.
Shape client engagement and intelligence-gathering efforts by actively cultivating relationships with stakeholders, synthesizing insights across the client organization and partner ecosystem, and providing Fearless leaders with actionable recommendations that inform strategy and strengthen delivery outcomes.
Fearless Customer Impact:
Deliver expected outcomes relative to high quality code and maintainable systems
Offer and implement innovative solutions that include engineering best practices through new tools, frameworks and methodologies
Lead and align stakeholders with product and project goals that advance customer satisfaction as well as Fearless’ objectives, strategy, and mission
Serve as a trusted advisor in your area of expertise

Work Experience
Project Skill and Experience Requirements
●​Minimum of 6 years of experience in software engineering, DevOps, cloud engineering, platform engineering, or related roles.
●​Strong hands-on experience building and maintaining cloud infrastructure and application environments.
●​Demonstrated experience implementing Infrastructure as Code using Terraform, CloudFormation, or equivalent technologies.
●​Experience designing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines and automated build, test, deployment, and rollback processes.
●​Experience with cloud networking, storage, compute, containers, and environment provisioning.
●​Experience implementing monitoring and observability through centralized logging, metrics, tracing, dashboards, and alerting.
●​Hands-on experience implementing cloud and application security practices, including secrets management, encryption, IAM, vulnerability management, and access con...

About Fearless

Software Development · 201-500 employees · headquartered in Baltimore, Maryland · founded 2009