[Hiring] Development Operations Engineer @Bullhorn

Role Description

As a DevOps Engineer at Bullhorn, you'll be building the tools and systems that facilitate large-scale software releases safely and effectively. This includes all pipelines for building, packaging, deploying, and validating software delivery. You will help the team take code changes safely and quickly from a developer's machine all the way to production. We're a release-engineering and platform team: we build and maintain the systems that enable engineering teams to deploy with confidence. We relentlessly automate manual toil from the software delivery lifecycle.

This is a hands-on building role. You'll:

• Write automations, own our deploy and CI/CD tooling, containerize and modernize our environments, and partner directly with engineering teams to remove the friction that slows them down.

A Typical Day Will Include:

• Designing, building, and maintaining deploy and release pipelines, and the automation that reduces manual intervention during releases.
• Building and improving our internal release tooling — for example, automating script packaging and DBA approvals, code + script deploys, and release-finishing workflows.
• Advancing our CI/CD GitOps process: authoring reusable GitLab CI templates, Helm charts, and ArgoCD applications so teams can self-serve their own build and deploy pipelines.
• Containerizing and modernizing our QA and lower environments (Kubernetes, Helm, Ansible) to bring them closer to production parity.
• Modernizing build tools across the org to ensure we’re using the latest and greatest technology across all teams.
• Attending daily team stand-ups and collaborating with a distributed, cross-functional team across US and UK time zones.
• Troubleshooting deployment and infrastructure issues, and partnering with engineering teams to resolve environment-specific problems.
• Leveraging AI tools (Claude Code, Claude Cowork, and similar) as a core part of how you work — writing unit tests and automation, accelerating investigation and refactoring, and finding new ways to eliminate toil.
• Writing clean, well-tested automation and scripts (Python, Bash) and following solid engineering practices for the tools we own.
• Contributing to documentation, runbooks, and developer enablement so knowledge is shared and not siloed.
• Mentoring teammates, driving conversations about priorities and process, and independently owning complex, cross-cutting initiatives.
• Working within a positive, energizing, collaborative team environment.

Qualifications

• You want to be an integral part of an innovative, high-performance engineering team.
• You thrive in a fast-paced, agile environment with frequent software releases.
• You're an automation-first thinker — if you do something more than twice, your instinct is to automate it.
• You can work through complex problems independently while knowing when to pull others in and help less experienced teammates do the same.
• You're comfortable scripting and building tooling in Python and Bash/shell.
• You have hands-on experience with CI/CD systems — GitLab CI/CD and/or Jenkins — including building and maintaining pipelines.
• You're experienced with containers and orchestration: Docker, Kubernetes, and Helm.
• You're comfortable building full-stack automation tooling — scripting and backend work in Python, and frontend/UI work in JavaScript (our internal tools have both a Python backend and a web frontend).
• You've worked with GitOps and/or infrastructure-as-code and configuration management (ArgoCD, Ansible, or similar).
• You're comfortable with Git-based workflows and modern versioning practices.
• You see AI tooling as a force multiplier and are eager to use it to raise your own and the team's output.
• You care about reliability, security, and developer experience, and you communicate clearly with the engineering teams you support.
• You're comfortable challenging and being challenged by your teammates.

Requirements

• Bonus Points:
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a similar field, or relevant work experience.
• Experience with cloud infrastructure (AWS), including services like RDS.
• Experience with deployment tooling such as Octopus Deploy, and with artifact repositories (Nexus, Artifactory).
• Experience with monitoring and observability stacks (Prometheus, Grafana, Backstage, Rancher, or ELK).
• Familiarity with SQL Server and collaborating with DBA teams on script and schema deployments.
• Exposure to secure SDLC / compliance considerations (SOC), and building change management into pipelines.
• Experience modernizing or migrating legacy systems (e.g., ColdFusion, legacy build jobs) toward modern, containerized workflows.
• Comfort working across geographically distributed teams and time zones.

Benefits

• Benefits eligibility effective DAY ONE including Medical, Dental, Vision, 401(k), 401(k) Match, and more.
• Unlimited Planned Paid Time Off.
• Global Mental Health Support.
• On-Demand Learning & Development.
• Quarterly paid volunteer days.
• Lucrative Employee Referral Program (eligible for prior to your first day).
• Company-wide mentor program.