Job Overview
Company: Major Media & Entertainment Company
Role: Senior DevOps Engineer (Release & Platform)
Location: Burbank, CA (Hybrid – Team onsite Tues–Thurs)
Work Arrangement: Hybrid; exceptional remote candidates will be considered with the right skill set and culture fit
Contract Duration: Through February 2027
Pay Rate: $90–$103/hour

About the Role
A leading media and entertainment organization is seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer to own the end-to-end release management and deployment lifecycle for critical monetization and data platforms. This role blends hands-on DevOps engineering with AWS infrastructure leadership and release governance, serving as a central coordination point across engineering, architecture, data science, and program management.
You will define and run the release strategy, build and govern CI/CD pipelines, manage multi-environment deployments, and ensure that code, configuration, and data changes move safely, securely, and reliably from development through production. This is a highly visible role focused on stability, scalability, compliance, and delivery excellence across enterprise platforms.

What You’ll Do
Release Governance & Planning

• Own the release management framework: deployment calendars, release cadence, quality gates, and approval workflows
• Enforce release governance to ensure all changes are reviewed, tested, and approved before deployment
• Coordinate with delivery leads, architects, and stakeholders to align releases with business and project milestones
• Lead cutover planning, go-live execution, and post-release validation
• Serve as the single point of accountability for releases across multiple environments and systems

DevOps & Automation

• Design, build, and manage AWS-based CI/CD pipelines for business-critical applications and data platforms
• Implement automation for build, test, package, deploy, and regression testing
• Govern branching, merging, and build strategies using Git-based repositories and AWS DevOps tooling
• Partner with engineering teams to define automated testing and quality validation
• Maintain and evolve deployment scripts, templates, and tooling to standardize and accelerate releases

Environment & Infrastructure Management

• Oversee all environments: Dev, SIT, UAT, Pre-Prod, and Production, ensuring consistency and version alignment
• Manage environment refreshes, configuration migration, data masking, and backups
• Partner with cloud infrastructure teams on provisioning, scaling, monitoring, and reliability
• Ensure high availability and disaster recovery readiness using cloud best practices and resilience frameworks
• Collaborate with centralized infrastructure teams to maintain company-wide cloud engineering standards

Technical Leadership & Collaboration

• Partner with Solution and Technical Architects to implement DevSecOps best practices
• Act as the technical authority for release and deployment decisions, balancing speed, quality, and risk
• Work with cloud service teams, vendors, managed services, and SI partners to resolve release issues
• Mentor and upskill DevOps and support teams, promoting strong engineering and operational practices

Quality, Security & Compliance

• Ensure releases meet internal governance, security, compliance, and change management requirements
• Embed automated compliance checks and reporting into CI/CD pipelines
• Maintain full audit trails and release documentation
• Define rollback, contingency, and risk mitigation strategies for high-impact releases

Continuous Improvement

• Track and improve deployment metrics (frequency, lead time, failure rate, stability)
• Evaluate and introduce improvements across Docker, Kubernetes, cloud services, and DevOps tooling
• Champion a culture of automation, reliability, and operational excellence

What We’re Looking For (Summary)
This role is ideal for a senior, hands-on DevOps / Platform Engineer who has:

• Deep experience with Python, Kubernetes, Terraform, and cloud platforms (AWS preferred)
• Proven ownership of enterprise-scale CI/CD and release management
• Strong production experience with observability tools (Datadog or Splunk)
• Comfort operating in regulated, audit-conscious environments
• The ability to lead releases, influence architecture, and partner across engineering and business teams

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