Senior DevOps / Platform Engineer (Kubernetes, GitLab & GitOps)

About this role

Description:

Are you an experienced DevOps or Platform Engineer who enjoys building cloud-native platforms, automating software deployments, and ensuring production systems remain secure, reliable, and scalable?

Do you have hands-on experience designing CI/CD pipelines, deploying applications to Kubernetes, and implementing GitOps automation?

### Opportunity

Virtual Service Operations (VSO) is seeking an experienced Senior DevOps / Platform Engineer to support a high-visibility enterprise technology modernization initiative.

This initiative focuses on developing foundational platforms and services that enable secure data connectivity, interoperability, API integration, and emerging AI capabilities across a large, complex enterprise environment. The project involves building a shared platform that allows applications, services, and data systems to securely connect through standardized APIs and modern integration technologies, including Model Context Protocol (MCP). In this role, you will design, build, automate, and operate the deployment and operations foundation for a cloud-native enterprise platform.

You will take ownership of CI/CD automation, container builds and deployments, GitOps workflows, infrastructure provisioning, observability, and disaster recovery capabilities. The initial phase focuses on delivering a Minimum Viable Product (MVP), with opportunities to expand platform capabilities as adoption grows. This is a hands-on engineering position. We are looking for someone who has personally built and operated production cloud-native environments—not someone whose experience is limited to maintaining existing infrastructure or administering development tools.

### Key Responsibilities

CI/CD Engineering & Deployment Automation

• Design, develop, implement, and maintain GitLab CI/CD pipelines supporting platform services from source code commit through production deployment.
• Automate software builds, testing, validation, packaging, and d...