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DevOps Engineer jobs in Philadelphia, PA
DevOps engineers build the pipelines, infrastructure, and automation that let teams ship software quickly and safely. The work centers on CI/CD, cloud infrastructure, and reliability.
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$39–$101/hr
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$138k
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ApplicableSpecialismFunctional & Industry TechnologiesManagement LevelSenior AssociateJob Description & SummaryThe OpportunityAs a GIS DevSecOps Engineer, Senior Associate, you will engage in consulting services for a va…
solutions, high-end design capabilities, and smart solutions to optimize planned and operating assets. KBR is seeking a Lead Project Engineer to function as the day-to-day engineering integrator, coordinating activities…
$86.7k - $170.9k
to end, turning market and stakeholder needs into requirements Engineering and Design can execute against. Your work will include:... ...years of experience using Agile product tools such as Jira, Azure DevOps, or Conflu…
$110.7k - $218.3k
Position Summary Salesforce Life Sciences Cloud Senior ConsultantDeloitte's Sales & Service practice partners with the world's leading life sciences companies to reimagine how their commercial, medical, and field organiz…
$122k - $145k
and identify potential risk situations* Familiarity with agile software delivery methodologies and tools such as Scrum, Jira, Azure DevOps and Rally* Experience using AI tools to generate requirements, user stories and w…
$116.2k - $229.1k
Position Summary AI & Engineering/ EaaS - DevOps Engineer IIIBuild and scale modern DevOps capabilities that help clients accelerate delivery, improve reliability, and modernize engineering operations. As a Senior Consul…
passionate about Aviation and wish to explore new and exciting opportunities? Our growing aviation practice is searching for Aviation Engineers, and we hope you consider joining our team! As an Aviation Engineer, you wil…
SKILLS/ABILITIES • Undergraduate Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Business or a related IT discipline • 8+ years of relevant... ...with Agile Lifecycle Management tools (e.g., Microsoft Azure DevOps and Jira…
$215.1k - $384.4k
, data, AI, and workflow to help customers improve clinical, operational, financial, and experience outcomes.The Forward Deployed Engineer is a product-minded, hands-on engineer who works with strategic customers and WK…
$50 per hour
Position: DevOps Engineer No of years exp: 8+ Work Location : Philadelphia (No Remote) Visa independent candidates only Job Description Key Responsibilities Administer and support GitHub Enterprise and JFrog Artifactory…
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What devops engineers earn in Philadelphia
Hourly first — that's how the offer arrives
| Experience | Hourly | Annual, full-time |
|---|---|---|
| Entry level | $39–$54 | $81k–$113k |
| Mid level | $54–$78 | $113k–$162k |
| Senior | $75–$101 | $157k–$211k |
Adjusted for the Philadelphia market from national ranges.
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What employers ask for
The skills these listings keep naming
AWS, GCP, or AzureKubernetes and DockerTerraform or other IaCCI/CD pipelinesLinux and shell scriptingPython or GoMonitoring (Prometheus, Grafana)Incident responseCost optimization
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Interview questions worth rehearsing
With the thing the interviewer is actually listening for
Walk me through a CI/CD pipeline you built or improved.
Cover the stages, what you automated, and the measurable result — faster deploys, fewer failed releases. Numbers make this answer.
A deploy just took production down. What do you do?
Roll back first, diagnose second, communicate throughout. Then talk about prevention: canaries, health checks, smaller changes.
How do you manage infrastructure as code, and why does it matter?
Explain reproducibility, review, and drift prevention with a tool like Terraform. Mention how you handle state and secrets — that is where real experience shows.
How would you reduce a team's cloud bill?
Start with visibility (tagging, cost reports), then rightsizing, reserved capacity, and killing orphaned resources. A real example with a dollar figure is ideal.
How do you decide what to monitor and alert on?
Alert on symptoms users feel, not every metric. Talk about SLOs and reducing alert fatigue — mature answers focus on fewer, better alerts.
How do you roll out a risky infrastructure change?
Describe staging environments, incremental rollout, rollback plans, and communicating with affected teams before you touch anything.
How do you handle secrets in pipelines and applications?
Name a secrets manager, rotation, and least privilege, and the anti-pattern you are avoiding: credentials in code or CI variables sprayed everywhere.
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Resume tips that move the needle
For devops engineers specifically — generic advice costs you here
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Lead with measurable operational wins: deploy frequency, mean time to recovery, uptime, or cloud cost reductions.
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Name your infrastructure stack precisely — 'Kubernetes on EKS with Terraform and GitHub Actions' beats 'cloud technologies'.
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Certifications (AWS, CKA) still move the needle in this field; list current ones near the top.
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Describe scale: number of services, clusters, or engineers your platform supported.
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Mention incident and on-call experience — teams hiring DevOps are usually buying calm under pressure.
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Where this role goes
Typical progression
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