Sr. DevOps Engineer
Company: Ascending
Location: Remote (Remote)
Type: Full-time
Level: Senior
Remote: Yes
Posted: 2026-03-11
About this role
DevOps Engineer II
Long term contract- 2+ years
100% remote in the continental US
Our client is dedicated to serving our nation's military and Veterans. They have the honor to support federal agencies in their efforts to advance the United States health care system and improve the overall health and well-being of all those who serve or have served our country. To support this mission, our client has embarked on a multi-year modernization journey, within which the DevOps Engineer will play a key role: designing, developing, and maintaining the client's automated build and release structure and deployment pipeline. This will span from code compilation and automated testing to deploying releases to multiple environments.
Responsibilities
- Setup, install, configure and maintain build infrastructure
- Create and maintain build and deployment scripts
- Maintain source control branches
- Perform periodic builds and deployments to production environment
- Perform manual code merges and deploy partial releases and patches
- Work with other IT teams to review pre-release checklists and coordinate activities to be performed prior to, during and post releases by others
- Work with other IT teams to perform troubleshooting and resolution of build and deployment issues in sprint and during releases related to deployment targets, databases, certificates, permissions, firewall changes, IIS configurations and any other system and network dependencies
- Work with Development teams and participate in troubleshooting high priority application related issues after releases
- Configure and maintain application settings and credentials
- Perform administration of Azure DevOps Servers including regular maintenance, user management and security
- Design and implement policies for managing source code within ADO and Git, including branching, merging and tagging policies to support frequent releases, concurrent development, and partial fixes
- Create and maintain docu...