Software Operations Engineer

Metis Technology Solutions is seeking an experienced Software Operations (SWOPS) Engineer to join our engineering team. The successful candidate will work closely with software developers, data engineers, system administrators, researchers, and other technical staff to design, implement, automate, secure, and maintain the infrastructure and processes used to build, test, deploy, and operate project software. The Software Operations Engineer will serve as a bridge between software development and operational infrastructure, with responsibility for CI/CD automation, AWS cloud infrastructure, infrastructure and configuration automation, containerized application environments, software security and quality tooling, and operational scripting.

This position:

• Designs, implements, maintains, and improves automated Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery/Deployment (CI/CD) pipelines supporting project software.

• Develops and maintains CI/CD workflows using Jenkins, GitHub Enterprise/GitHub Actions, and related technologies.

• Designs, provisions, configures, and maintains application and development infrastructure in Amazon Web Services (AWS).

• Automates infrastructure provisioning, system configuration, application deployment, and operational processes using Ansible and other infrastructure/configuration automation technologies.

• Deploys, configures, operates, and troubleshoots containerized applications using Docker and Kubernetes.

• Develops and maintains Python and Bash scripts and utilities to automate environment provisioning, configuration changes, deployments, runtime operations, monitoring, and other engineering workflows.

• Integrates automated software-quality and vulnerability-scanning tools into CI/CD pipelines and development workflows.

• Configures, maintains, and troubleshoots automated security and code-quality analysis using tools such as Mend and SonarQube/Sonar, or comparable technologies.

• Works with development teams to identify and remediate software build, dependency, vulnerability, deployment, configuration, and runtime issues.

• Administers and optimizes Git and GitHub Enterprise workflows supporting collaborative software development, including repositories, branches, pull requests, code review, and automated workflows.

• Supports engineering collaboration and development processes using Jira, Confluence, and related Atlassian technologies.

• Implements monitoring, logging, metrics, and alerting to provide visibility into application and infrastructure health.

• Diagnoses and resolves complex operational problems involving Linux systems, CI/CD pipelines, containers, cloud infrastructure, application configuration, networking, and security tooling.