Senior DevOps Engineer at Ascensus | All Remote Jobs
Ascensus
Senior DevOps Engineer
United States · remote · USD 120000-165000 annual
himalayasseo_indexablePosted 2026-08-31First seen 2026-09-09
Role overview
Ascensus is the leading independent technology and service platform powering savings plans across America, providing products and expertise that help nearly 16 million people save for a better today and tomorrow.
Section 1: Position Summary
We are seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer with 10+ years of hands‑on experience designing, building, and operating enterprise‑grade CI/CD platforms across hybrid environments (AWS and on‑premises). This role will lead platform standardization, progressive delivery, reliability engineering, and security‑by‑design to enable high‑quality, low‑risk software delivery at scale.
Key Responsibilities
CI/CD Platform & Environment Strategy
Design, implement, and operate a standardized CI/CD framework supporting Dev, QA, PartnerLab, Staging, and Production
Define promotion workflows with enforced quality gates and artifact immutability
Establish PartnerLab as a dedicated integration and validation environment with no direct path to Production
Ensure environment parity across AWS and on‑prem systems
Progressive Delivery & Release Engineering
Implement feature flags, canary deployments, blue‑green deployments, and phased rollouts
Enable automated rollback based on health checks, error rates, and SLO breaches
Maintain full release traceability from commit through production
Test Automation & Quality Engineering
Integrate unit, integration, regression, security, and performance testing into CI/CD pipelines
Enforce automated quality gates before environment promotion
Support manual validation workflows with controlled access, observability, and test artifacts
Static and dynamic analysis tools (code quality, security, dependency scanning)
Feature flag platforms or equivalent internal capabilities
Database & Data Management
Oracle and Microsoft SQL Server (mandatory)
Schema migration tooling with automated rollback
Data masking, anonymization, and controlled refresh automation
Observability & Reliability Engineering
Metrics, logging, and tracing with Prometheus, Grafana, Splunk, New Relic, CloudWatch, OpenTelemetry, ELK
SLO‑driven alerting and deployment health evaluation (e.g., Uptrends, PagerDuty)
Automated failure containment and rollback strategies
Security & Secrets Management
HashiCorp Vault, AWS Secrets Manager, or equivalent
Secure pipeline design with controlled credential access
Compliance‑ready logging, approvals, and traceability
Soft Skills & Delivery Expectations
Experience in regulated or financial services environments
Strong documentation, runbooks, and architectural communication
Proven collaboration with application, infrastructure, security, and QA teams
Comfortable operating in enterprise, onshore delivery models
We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer
The national average salary range for this role is 120-165k in base pay, exclusive of any bonuses and benefits. This base salary range represents the low and high end of the salary range for this position. Actual salary offered will vary and may be above or below the range based on various factors including but not limited to location, experience, performance, and internal pay alignment. We do not anticipate that candidates hired will begin at the top of the range however, from time to time, it may occur on a case-by-case basis. Other rewards and benefits may include: 401(k) match, Medical, Dental, Vision, Paid-Time-Off, etc. For more information, please visit .
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