The role
Wilkes & Liberty needs a DevOps / SRE Engineer who treats the release path and production behavior as part of the product. You will make changes repeatable, failures visible, recovery testable, and day-to-day operation sustainable for the client team that inherits the system.
This role is distinct from Infrastructure / Platform Engineer. Infrastructure owns the environment — compute, network, and platform substrate. You own how software moves through that environment and how it behaves in production.
What you will own
- Design and maintain CI/CD for the engagement's applications and services so builds, tests, and promotions are repeatable.
- Define release, rollback, and promotion paths that match the engagement's risk posture.
- Set service objectives and instrument systems with actionable telemetry — metrics, logs, traces, and alerts operators can act on.
- Verify recovery through restore, rollback, and failover paths that have been exercised, not only described.
- Monitor dependency health and reduce toil in the delivery and operations path.
- Harden operational controls, including secrets handling, least privilege in pipelines, and change evidence.
- Define support, escalation, and recovery boundaries that match the contracted service.
- Partner with Infrastructure / Platform on environment boundaries without absorbing infrastructure ownership.
- Support forward-deployed work when embedded reliability is part of delivery.
What you bring
- You have owned CI/CD and production reliability for real systems, not only one-off deploy scripts.
- You design observability and recovery that operators can use under pressure.
- You work across application and platform boundaries with engineering teams.
- You write clear operational documentation and treat reliability as delivery design.
- You prefer concrete pipeline and incident evidence over tool-name lists.
Helpful experience
- Containerized delivery, GitHub Actions or comparable pipelines, and common observability stacks used as estate examples rather than fixed requirements.
- CMS/web platform estates such as Drupal and Next.js.
- Regulated or federal-adjacent environments where change control and evidence matter.
- Service-level objectives, dependency monitoring, and toil reduction programs.
Equal opportunity and accommodations. Wilkes & Liberty considers qualified candidates without regard to protected characteristics. Reasonable accommodations are available during the application process.