Milestone Technologies, Inc. · 14 hours ago
Lead DevOps Engineer
Burbank, CA
Contract
Hybrid
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$85/hr - $92.50/hr
10+ years expMilestone Technologies, Inc. is seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer to manage the end-to-end release management lifecycle for monetization platforms. The role involves coordinating across engineering, architecture, and program management to ensure stable and secure deployments on AWS infrastructure.
Application Performance ManagementConsumer ElectronicsInformation Technology
Responsibilities
Define and own release management framework, including deployment calendar, release cadence, quality gates, and approval workflows
Establish and enforce release governance processes, ensuring all code/config changes are reviewed, tested, and signed off prior to deployment
Coordinate with delivery leads, solution architects, and functional consultants to align release schedules with project milestones and business readiness
Manage cutover planning, go-live execution, and post-release validation activities
Serve as the single point of accountability for all releases across multiple environments and systems
Design, build, and manage AWS DevOps pipelines for Monetization business applications and integrations
Implement CI/CD automation for build, package, deploy, and regression testing across environments
Govern branching, merging, and build strategies in AWS based Repos or Git-based source control systems
Collaborate with development teams to define automated testing and quality validation processes
Maintain deployment scripts, tools, and templates to accelerate and standardize releases
Oversee all environments - Development, SIT, UAT, Pre-Prod, and Production - ensuring consistency and version alignment
Manage environment refreshes, data masking, configuration migration, and database backups in collaboration with infrastructure and engineering teams
Coordinate with AWS Infrastructure teams to manage resource provisioning, scaling, and monitoring for the AWS based data and web applications
Ensure high availability and disaster recovery readiness through AWS-based resilience strategies. Follow principles of AWS Well-Architected Framework
Collaborates well with the Studio Infrastructure Group to maintain company-wide standards for Cloud Engineering
Partner with Solution and Technical Architects to define and implement DevSecOps best practices
Act as the technical authority for release and deployment decisions - balancing speed, quality, and control
Collaborate with AWS Service teams, Snowflake vendor teams, Managed Services, and SI partners to resolve release issues and adopt platform best practices
Provide mentoring, knowledge transfer, and upskilling for internal DevOps and support teams
Ensure releases adhere to internal IT governance, SOX, GDPR, and change management controls
Implement automated compliance validation and reporting within AWS DevOps pipelines
Maintain complete audit trails and release documentation for traceability and operational assurance
Define rollback and contingency strategies for high-risk releases
Monitor deployment metrics (frequency, lead time, failure rate) and drive ongoing improvements in release efficiency and quality
Evaluate new AWS, Docker, Kubernetes related features, proposing enhancements to existing toolchains and workflows
Champion a culture of automation, reliability, and transparency in delivery practices
Qualification
Required
10+ years of Python experience
5+ years of experience with Kubernetes
5+ years of Terraform experience
5+ years of experience with Docker or Ansible, for seamless deployment
3+ years of experience with Splunk or Datadog
Deep hands-on expertise with AWS DevOps (Pipelines, Repos, Artifacts, Boards) for CI/CD automation and code deployment
Strong experience with build tools for Java, JavaScript, Maven, NPM
Strong experience developing build scripts using the tools that integrate well with AWS
Skilled in AWS infrastructure administration, including resource groups, networking, security, scaling, and monitoring
Interfacing with MySQL and Snowflake, and can script tools to manage them, move data, and maintain scalable playbooks
Strong skills in scripting various actions for deployment processes - data pipelines, managing servers
Strong experience in using and integrating with Git processes, scripting with it
Strong experience with managing backups, multi-region hosting – familiarity with various DR tools
Strong grasp of ITIL change management, DevSecOps principles, and release governance frameworks
Proven experience managing end-to-end release cycles for enterprise-scale solution implementations or global rollouts
Excellent communication and stakeholder coordination skills, with the ability to manage global release calendars across vendors and regions
Preferred
AWS Certifications (Solution Architect, DevOps Engineer, Developer, CloudOps)
Experience with MLOps
Managed Streaming for Kafka
Experience with deploying machine learning models on AWS SageMaker
Integration with AWS Lambda or CloudWatch
Benefits
Comprehensive benefits
Company
Milestone Technologies, Inc.
Milestone Technologies is a global IT Services and Digital Solutions company based in Silicon Valley that helps hundreds of leading corporations deliver technology around the globe.
1001-5000 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
$42.5MKey Investors
H.I.G. Capital
2022-12-13Acquired
2015-08-11Private Equity· $42.5M
Leadership Team
Sameer Kishore
President and Chief Executive Officer
Mayank K Agrawal
Chief Financial Officer
Recent News
2025-10-01
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