DevOps Engineer

The Mellon Foundation

DevOps Engineer (Temp Assignment)

Please note this is a temporary assignment. As a temporary hire, you will begin in a temporary capacity While on temporary assignment, a third-party staffing agency will be the employer of record for the selected candidate. Accordingly, this role will not be eligible for the Foundation's benefit.

The Mellon Foundation ("Foundation") is a not-for-profit, grant making organization that believes that the arts and humanities are where we express our complex humanity, and we believe that everyone deserves the beauty, transcendence, and freedom to be found there. Through our grants, we seek to build just communities enriched by meaning and empowered by critical thinking, where ideas and imagination can thrive. The Foundation makes grants in four core program areas - Higher Learning, Arts and Culture, Public Knowledge, and Humanities in Place - and through its signature Presidential Initiatives. The Foundation is seeking a DevOps/Automation Engineer for our Information Technology.

Position Summary:

The Mellon IT team is looking for DevOps Engineer to support the Cloud infrastructure for the Mellon business applications and build an automation framework to improve manual processes. The DevOps Engineer will report to Director, Enterprise Architecture and Engineering.

The engineer will work on multiple projects with various technology stacks and collaborate with internal and external teams.

Position Description:

Responsibilities may include, but will not be limited to:

• Design, build, and maintain CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions to support continuous integration and deployment.
• Implement and manage infrastructure as code (IaC) with Terraform across AWS and other cloud-based environments.
• Ensure high system reliability and performance through monitoring, alerting, log aggregation, and dashboards using Datadog.
• Collaborate with engineering team to automate deployment, scaling, and system management tasks.
• Support SRE practices, including incident response, observability, and postmortem investigation.
• Manage Netlify hosted frontend deployments.
• Manage Snowflake cloud hosted data environment, including User and RBAC controls, and external application integrations.
• Manage MuleSoft application deployment with Runtime Manager.
• Work with Security engineers and implement recommended security best practices.
• Create and maintain technical documentation.
• Ability to communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical teammates.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in computer science or a related field is preferable.
• 5+ years of working knowledge of AWS Cloud
• 3+ years of working knowledge of DevOps and application deployment processes
• 3+ hands on experience working with highly scalable web applications.
• In-depth automation experience using configuration management tools.
• Experience working with Containerization technology.
• Experience working GitHub code repository.
• Excellent troubleshooting and debugging skills.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Strong understanding of testing & QA processes.
• Strong understanding of security best practices and implementing secure products.
• Experience working with data warehousing platforms like Snowflake is plus.

The Mellon Foundation is committed to building an inclusive workplace where all individuals are treated with dignity and respect. Employment opportunities are based on individual qualifications, merit, and organizational need, without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, and related conditions), gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, national origin, disability, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law. We welcome applications from qualified individuals of all backgrounds.

Mellon is committed to access and inclusion for our applicants. If you have accessibility requests to support your participation in the hiring process, please let us know at your earliest convenience.

Mellon is committed to providing compensation that is competitive and equitable within the philanthropic sector. The hourly pay rate for this role is $ $85.00 (annualized to $146,000 - $165,000). The amount of pay offered is determined by several factors, including but not limited to qualifications, unique skills, credentials, or experience that is expected to impact the candidate's contribution to the role. We also consider market data as well as the Foundation's internal pay equity framework.

Please note that Mellon maintains a hybrid work schedule, with three days per week in person at the Foundation's Manhattan offices.

Candidates should apply by submitting a resume by Dec. 22nd, 2025. Please note that incomplete applications will not be considered. The Foundation will consider each complete application carefully but only contact those individuals it believes are most qualified for the position.