Automated DevOps Deployment Pipeline

I need an experienced DevOps engineer to hire as a consultant to build out a robust, fully automated deployment pipeline that carries our code from commit all the way to both our development and production environments. The focus is on speed, repeatability, and zero-touch releases for two kinds of workloads we run every day: traditional web applications and a growing set of container-based microservices.

Here’s what I’m aiming for: every push to the main branch triggers a CI/CD flow that runs unit tests, builds artefacts (Docker images where applicable), executes security scans, then promotes the build straight through to development. A manual, gated approval should be all that’s required to send the same, already-tested build onward to production.

To make that happen, I expect you to wire up the usual suspects—GitHub or GitLab for source control, something like Jenkins, GitHub Actions or GitLab CI for orchestration, and Kubernetes or ECS for runtime—using infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, Helm, Pulumi, etc.) so everything lives in version control. Rollback logic, environment-specific variables and secrets management (Vault, SSM, or similar) must be part of the design.

Deliverables
• Pipeline scripts / configuration committed to our repo
• IaC definitions for dev and prod resources
• README-level documentation so another engineer can reproduce the setup
• A short demo showing one click (or one merge) taking code to dev, manual gate, then on to prod without further intervention

Acceptance Criteria
• A successful commit to main auto-deploys to development within five minutes
• Production deployment achievable via single approval and completes with zero downtime
• Both web app and microservice templates handled the same way, sharing common stages
• All resources, from load balancer to database migrations, declared in code and peer-reviewable

If this sounds like the kind of streamlined DevOps you excel at, I look forward to seeing how you’d approach it.