DevOps Specialist

About the role The CI/CD & Quality Specialist designs, builds and operates CI/CD pipelines on DevOps for a team that currently merges and deploys manually, and leads the team's adoption of them.

also owns quality assurance, covering regression testing and release quality gates, and builds foundational pipeline security gates such as secret and dependency scanning, controlled approvals and audit evidence.

Design and build CI/CD pipelines from scratch, covering build, test, release, and deployment stages. Lead migration of the team away from manual code merge and manual deployment to an automated, auditable pipeline. Propose pipeline architecture and branching strategy suited to the team's current project structure.

Drive hands-on adoption: train engineers, run pairing/working sessions, and troubleshoot resistance or workflow gaps during rollout. Monitor pipeline performance post-adoption, deployment health and continuously resolve operational issues. Investigate deployment failures and operational incidents; conduct root cause analysis and implement preventive measures.

Standardize CI/CD and QA practices across projects as adoption matures. Develop and maintain operational runbooks, SOPs, and technical documentation for CI/CD pipelines and release processes. Enforce controlled approvals within the pipeline, ensuring that releases to Staging and Production go through the required review and approval processes.

Develop and execute automated tests fo