Sr. DevOps Engineer

Location: Plano, TX
Experience: 10 Years
Employment Type: Contract – W2 Only
Work Authorization: Must be eligible to work on W2
C2C: Not Accepted

Job Description

We are seeking an experienced Senior DevOps Engineer to design, build, and maintain reliable AWS cloud infrastructure and CI/CD pipelines for enterprise digital platforms.

The ideal candidate should have strong hands-on experience with AWS deployments, automation, logging, monitoring, observability, and production support.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and manage AWS-based deployment pipelines for cloud-native applications.

• Build, maintain, and optimize CI/CD pipelines.

• Implement logging, monitoring, and alerting solutions.

• Establish observability standards across services, including logs, metrics, and traces.

• Automate infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code (IaC).

• Support Docker-based containerized workloads and cloud-native deployments.

• Troubleshoot complex production issues and improve system reliability.

• Partner with application engineering, security, and platform teams.

• Support production readiness, release coordination, and incident response.

Required Skills

• 10 years of experience in DevOps, SRE, or Cloud Engineering.

• Strong hands-on experience with AWS, including:

  • ECS / EKS / Fargate

  • EC2, VPC, IAM

  • CloudWatch, S3, ALB/NLB

• Experience with logging and observability tools:

  • CloudWatch Logs

  • Splunk

  • Dynatrace

• Strong experience building CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions, Jenkins, or GitLab.

• Hands-on experience with Docker and containerization.

• Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CloudFormation, or CDK).

• Strong knowledge of Linux, networking, and security fundamentals.

• Excellent troubleshooting and production support skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience supporting Java-based microservices.

• Knowledge of event-driven architectures and messaging systems.

• Experience in automotive or financial services environments.

• Familiarity with SRE practices (SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets).

• Experience with blue/green and canary deployments.

• AWS certifications (Solutions Architect or DevOps Engineer).

Important: This is a STRICTLY W2 position. C2C and 1099 candidates will not be considered.