Senior DevOps Engineer

Job Title: Senior DevOps Engineer Experience: 10+ Years 

Location: Remote / Hybrid / Onsite 

Employment Type: W2 Contract

About the Role

We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Senior DevOps Engineer to drive our infrastructure strategy, automation initiatives, and platform reliability at scale. This role goes beyond managing pipelines — you will architect resilient systems, champion DevSecOps culture, and be a technical leader bridging development, operations, and security teams. If you think in systems, build for failure, and automate everything — this role is for you.

Key Responsibilities

• Architect, build, and maintain highly available, scalable cloud infrastructure across AWS / Azure / GCP
• Design and manage end-to-end CI/CD pipelines for rapid, reliable software delivery
• Lead infrastructure-as-code (IaC) initiatives using Terraform, Ansible, and CloudFormation
• Manage containerized workloads using Docker and Kubernetes (EKS / AKS / GKE) at enterprise scale
• Implement and own observability strategy — metrics, logs, traces — using Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, and ELK Stack
• Embed security into the DevOps lifecycle (DevSecOps) — vulnerability scanning, secrets management, compliance automation
• Drive platform engineering initiatives including internal developer platforms (IDPs) and golden path tooling
• Lead incident response, RCA (Root Cause Analysis), and blameless post-mortems
• Mentor and coach junior and mid-level DevOps engineers
• Collaborate with development, QA, and product teams to improve deployment frequency and reduce lead time
• Evaluate and introduce new tooling aligned with current industry best practices
• Manage cost optimization strategies for cloud environments

Required Skills & Technologies

Cloud Platforms

• AWS (EC2, EKS, Lambda, RDS, S3, IAM, VPC, Route53, CloudWatch)
• Azure (AKS, Azure DevOps, Azure Monitor, ARM Templates)
• GCP (GKE, Cloud Build, Pub/Sub, BigQuery) — at least one platform at expert level

CI/CD & Automation

• Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI/CD, CircleCI, ArgoCD, Tekton
• Experience with GitOps workflows (ArgoCD / Flux)

Infrastructure as Code

• Terraform (modules, workspaces, state management)
• Ansible, Puppet, or Chef
• AWS CloudFormation / Azure Bicep

Containers & Orchestration

• Docker, Kubernetes (Helm, Kustomize, Operators)
• Service mesh — Istio or Linkerd
• Container security — Trivy, Falco, OPA/Gatekeeper

Observability & Monitoring

• Prometheus + Grafana, Datadog, New Relic
• ELK Stack (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana) or OpenSearch
• Distributed tracing — Jaeger, OpenTelemetry

Security & Compliance (DevSecOps)

• HashiCorp Vault for secrets management
• SAST/DAST tools — SonarQube, Snyk, Checkov, Aqua Security
• CIS Benchmarks, SOC2, HIPAA, PCI-DSS compliance experience

Scripting & Programming

• Python, Bash, Go (at least two proficiently)
• PowerShell for Windows environments

Version Control & Collaboration

• Git, GitHub / GitLab / Bitbucket
• Jira, Confluence, Slack integrations

Databases & Messaging

• PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB — deployment & management
• Kafka, RabbitMQ, SQS/SNS — familiarity with event-driven architectures

What Makes a Strong Candidate

• Experience building Internal Developer Platforms (IDPs) that improve developer experience
• Hands-on with FinOps — cloud cost monitoring and optimization strategies
• Prior experience in SRE (Site Reliability Engineering) practices — SLIs, SLOs, error budgets
• Exposure to AI/ML infrastructure (MLOps) is a strong differentiator in 2026

Education & Certifications

• Bachelor's or Master's in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field
• Preferred certifications (any of the following):
  • AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Professional
  • Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) / CKAD / CKS
  • HashiCorp Terraform Associate / Professional
  • Google Professional DevOps Engineer
  • Azure DevOps Engineer Expert (AZ-400)