remote DevOps/Automation Engineer

• Build, improve, and standardize CI/CD pipelines across multiple enterprise platforms and applications.
• Modernize deployment and release workflows across content platforms and related digital applications.
• Develop automation with tools such as GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, Jenkins, or similar CI/CD platforms.
• Write scripts and automation in Python, PowerShell, Bash, or comparable languages to reduce manual effort.
• Strengthen release reliability through validation, deployment controls, rollback support, and repeatable processes.
• Identify recurring operational tasks and create tooling or automation to eliminate repetitive work.
• Improve monitoring, logging, alerting, dashboards, and observability across applications and infrastructure.
• Help reduce alert fatigue by refining monitoring rules and making alerts more actionable.
• Support production incidents and convert repeated issues into long-term engineering solutions.
• Automate certificate, secret, credential, service account, and configuration management processes where appropriate.
• Collaborate with cloud, infrastructure, platform, and application teams to improve reliability and supportability.
• Create clear documentation, runbooks, deployment standards, and operational best practices.

• 5+ years of experience in DevOps, Platform Engineering, SRE, Release Engineering, or Automation Engineering.
• Strong experience designing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines.
• Hands-on experience with GitHub/GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, Jenkins, or similar tools.
• Strong scripting and automation skills using Python, PowerShell, Bash, or similar languages.
• Experience with automated application and infrastructure deployments.
• Solid understanding of Git-based development and release workflows.
• Experience with monitoring, logging, alerting, and observability tools and practices.
• Experience troubleshooting production issues and release or deployment failures.
• Working knowledge of cloud platforms such as Google Cloud Platform and/or Azure.
• Ability to identify repetitive operational processes and turn them into efficient automation.

Preferred Skills

• Experience with Terraform and infrastructure as code.
• Experience with Docker and Kubernetes.
• Background supporting AEM, Sitecore, CMS, or digital experience platforms.
• Experience supporting React applications and APIs.
• Familiarity with tools such as Splunk, Dynatrace, Datadog, Grafana, Prometheus, or similar platforms.
• Understanding of SRE practices such as reliability engineering, SLIs/SLOs, incident management, and toil reduction.

Horizontal is committed to fostering an inclusive environment where people from all backgrounds feel valued, respected, and supported. We encourage candidates to apply who are excited to contribute to a culture of collaboration, continuous improvement, and equitable opportunity.