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# DevOps Specialist

- **Company:** Western Climate Initiative Inc.
- **Location:** Sacramento, CA, United States
- **Experience:** Experienced
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Amazon Web Services, Amazon S3, Bash Shell, Software as a Service, Cloud Computing, Computer Engineering, Continuous Delivery, Continuous Integration, DevOps, Github, Identity and Access Management, Python (Programming Language), Software Engineering, TypeScript, Pulumi, Scripting, Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), Gitlab-ci, Infrastructure Automation Frameworks, Information Technology, AWS Fargate, Functional Programming, Terraform, Software Version Control, Devsecops, Docker
- **Published:** August 31, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.adzuna.com/details/5850791359

## About the Role

* Bachelor's degree in computer science, computer engineering or related field.
 * Solid knowledge of cloud-based environments, especially AWS (core services such as IAM, VPC, S3, Lambda, ECS/Fargate).
 * Hands-on experience implementing Continuous Integration & Delivery (e.g., GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, or similar).
 * 3+ years of experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools, preferably Pulumi; experience with Terraform is acceptable if accompanied by strong willingness to learn Pulumi.
 * Demonstrable experience writing infrastructure or automation code in TypeScript (or strong TypeScript skills with a track record of quickly learning new languages).
 * 3+ years of experience on a cloud or SaaS operations team.
 * 3+ years of experience managing and monitoring infrastructure.
 * Expertise in software process automation.
 * Excellent understanding of Security as part of DevOps.
 * Familiarity with scripting languages (Bash, Python, or similar) for automation tasks.

Desired Qualifications

 * DevOps certifications (AWS/Docker/Config Management tools etc.).
 * Experience working with governmental agencies.

## Description

WCI, Inc. is seeking a qualified DevOps Specialist to provide infrastructure management and monitoring expertise, to set up a continuous integration/delivery pipeline as well as to facilitate, monitor and review software development/automation operations.

What will you do?

 * Work independently and collaboratively to set up continuous build environment to facilitate and accelerate software development as well as deployment.
 * Champion DevSecOps principles and practices.
 * Plan, test and implement infrastructure and appropriate environments.
 * Provide guidance and infrastructure support to software development teams.
 * Monitor, Review, Streamline and Improve technical operations.
 * Monitor and Inspect automation, Version Control and Security across the pipeline.
 * Recognize areas of improvement in the development /deployment lifecycle and recommend action plans.


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