Cloud DevOps Engineer

  • Richmond, VA
  • Posted 4 hours ago | Updated 4 hours ago

Overview

On Site
Depends on Experience
Contract - W2
Contract - 12 Month(s)

Skills

Cloud Computing
Amazon S3
Amazon RDS
Amazon Web Services
Amazon EC2
Continuous Integration
Continuous Delivery
GitHub
Python
Jenkins
Docker
DevOps

Job Details

Title: DevOps Engineer

Location: Richmond, VA- 3 days Hybrid

Duration: 12+ Months of Contract

Job Description

A DevOps Engineer with Python and AWS expertise is responsible for automating, deploying, and maintaining cloud-based applications while ensuring high availability, security, and performance. This role heavily focuses on AWS infrastructure, CI/CD automation, and Python scripting to streamline development-to-production workflows.

The engineer works closely with application developers, cloud architects, and support teams to build scalable, reliable, and cost-efficient systems on AWS.

Key Responsibilities (Python + AWS Focused)

  • Design, deploy, and manage AWS cloud infrastructure using services such as EC2, S3, RDS, Lambda, VPC, IAM, CloudWatch, and ELB
  • Develop and maintain Python scripts for automation, deployment, monitoring, and operational tasks
  • Build and support CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, or AWS CodePipeline
  • Implement Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform or AWS CloudFormation
  • Containerize applications using Docker and manage deployments using Kubernetes (EKS)
  • Monitor system health, logs, and performance using CloudWatch, Prometheus, Grafana, ELK
  • Manage AWS security and access control (IAM roles, policies, secrets management)
  • Perform production support, troubleshooting, incident resolution, and root cause analysis
  • Optimize AWS cost, performance, and scalability
  • Collaborate with development teams to improve release automation and reliability.

EEO: Mindlance is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate in employment on the basis of Minority/Gender/Disability/Religion/LGBTQI/Age/Veterans

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