Overview
On Site
Depends on Experience
Accepts corp to corp applications
Contract - W2
Contract - 1 Month(s)
Skills
API
Access Control
Amazon DynamoDB
Amazon Lambda
Amazon RDS
Amazon S3
Amazon Web Services
Job Details
We are looking for DevOps Lead for our client in New York City, NY
Job Title: DevOps Lead
Job Type: Contract
Job Description:
Pay Range: $50hr - $55hr
- The DevOps Lead will guide and mentor a team of DevOps engineers while driving strategy, automation, cloud infrastructure management, security, and process optimization.
- This role ensures seamless collaboration across development, QA, and infrastructure teams to support reliable and scalable software delivery.
- Lead and mentor a team of DevOps engineers while fostering collaboration and continuous improvement.
- Define and implement DevOps strategies aligned with business and engineering objectives.
- Collaborate with development, QA and infrastructure teams to streamline software delivery.
- Design, build and maintain CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions, Jenkins or GitLab CI.
- Automate build, test, deployment and rollback processes across environments.
- Ensure high availability and reliability of deployment workflows.
- Architect and manage cloud infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code tools such as AWS CDK, Terraform or CloudFormation.
- Oversee provisioning and scaling of cloud resources including AWS Lambda, ECS, EKS, S3, API Gateway, RDS, DynamoDB and IAM.
- Implement monitoring, logging and alerting solutions including CloudWatch, Prometheus, Grafana and ELK Stack.
- Enforce security best practices within CI/CD pipelines and cloud environments.
- Manage secrets, credentials and access control using AWS Secrets Manager, SSM or Vault.
- Ensure compliance with internal and external security standards.
- Identify bottlenecks and inefficiencies in development and deployment workflows.
- Drive adoption of DevOps tools and practices across teams.
- Evaluate and implement new tools and technologies to improve system reliability and productivity.
- Strong leadership experience guiding DevOps engineering teams.
- Expertise in CI/CD pipeline design and automation.
- Proficiency with Infrastructure as Code tools and AWS cloud services.
- Experience implementing monitoring and logging solutions.
- Strong understanding of DevOps security best practices.
- Proven experience in DevOps engineering with leadership or lead-level responsibilities.
- CI/CD tools (GitHub Actions, Jenkins, GitLab CI)
- IaC tools (AWS CDK, Terraform, CloudFormation)
- AWS services (Lambda, ECS, EKS, S3, API Gateway, RDS, DynamoDB, IAM)
- Monitoring tools (CloudWatch, Prometheus, Grafana, ELK Stack)
- Secrets management tools (AWS Secrets Manager, SSM, Vault)
- Relevant technical degree or equivalent experience.
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