Deployment DevOps Engineer

Stack

Responsibilities

• ▹Own the end-to-end release and deployment lifecycle: build, package, deploy, verify, rollback
• ▹Develop and support Octopus Deploy projects, lifecycles, channels, variables and deployment processes
• ▹Implement deployment automation with Ansible (playbooks, roles, inventories, idempotent changes)
• ▹Maintain Git-based release workflows in GitHub (branching, tagging, versioning, release notes)
• ▹Build and maintain CI pipelines in GitHub Actions that produce artifacts and trigger Octopus releases
• ▹Standardize deployment patterns across applications (templates, shared steps, reusable Ansible roles)
• ▹Manage environment configuration and secrets in a controlled way (variable sets, permissions, auditing)
• ▹Improve deployment safety: approvals, health checks, smoke tests, automated validation and rollback strategies
• ▹Support production releases, troubleshoot deployment failures and drive root-cause analysis
• ▹Maintain release documentation, runbooks and change management practices
• ▹Collaborate with developers, QA and operations to plan releases and reduce downtime

Requirements

• ▹Experience as a DevOps / release / deployment engineer supporting production deployments
• ▹Strong hands-on experience with Octopus Deploy (process design, variables, multi-environment releases)
• ▹Strong Ansible skills for deployment and configuration (roles, vault/secrets, troubleshooting)
• ▹Strong working knowledge of GitHub (PR workflows, tagging/releases, permissions)
• ▹Understanding of CI/CD concepts (artifact management, versioning, promotion between environments)
• ▹Administration and troubleshooting skills on Windows and/or Linux hosts used for deployments
• ▹Ability to diagnose deployment issues across application, OS, network and configuration layers

Nice to have

• ▹Terraform and infrastructure provisioning
• ▹Scripting with PowerShell and/or Bash
• ▹Monitoring and observability basics (Prometheus/Grafana, logs) to validate releases
• ▹IIS/.NET deployments, Nginx or reverse proxies (depending on the stack)
• ▹Container-based deployments (Docker/Kubernetes)

Soft skills

About the company

Intermedia provides cloud communications and collaboration technology with a track record of growth and profitability. The company likes to promote from within, and many employees have been there for 10-20 years.