Senior DevOps Engineer

Job Title: Senior DevOps Engineer
Experience: 11+ Years
Employment Type: W2 Contract

Job Description

We are seeking an experienced Senior DevOps Engineer to design, implement, and manage scalable cloud infrastructure and CI/CD solutions. The ideal candidate will have strong expertise in AWS/Azure, Kubernetes, Terraform, Docker, and DevOps automation.

Key Responsibilities

• Design and manage highly available cloud infrastructure using AWS and/or Azure.
• Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab, or Azure DevOps.
• Implement Infrastructure as Code using Terraform, CloudFormation, or Ansible.
• Deploy and manage containerized applications using Docker and Kubernetes.
• Automate infrastructure provisioning, configuration, deployments, and operational processes.
• Monitor application and infrastructure performance using tools such as CloudWatch, Prometheus, Grafana, or ELK.
• Implement cloud security, IAM, networking, secrets management, and compliance best practices.
• Troubleshoot production issues and perform root-cause analysis.
• Work closely with development, QA, security, and architecture teams.
• Implement logging, monitoring, alerting, backup, and disaster-recovery solutions.
• Improve system reliability, scalability, performance, and deployment efficiency.

Required Skills

• 11+ years of experience in DevOps, Cloud, or Infrastructure Engineering.
• Strong experience with AWS and/or Azure.
• Strong hands-on experience with Kubernetes and Docker.
• Expertise in Terraform and Infrastructure as Code.
• Strong experience building CI/CD pipelines.
• Proficiency with Linux/Unix environments.
• Experience with Python, Bash, or PowerShell scripting.
• Strong knowledge of Git, GitHub/GitLab/Bitbucket.
• Experience with monitoring tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, or CloudWatch.
• Good understanding of cloud networking, IAM, security, and high availability.
• Strong troubleshooting and communication skills.

Preferred Skills

• Helm, Argo CD, Istio, Jenkins
• AWS EKS / Azure AKS
• Ansible
• Terraform Cloud
• Kafka / RabbitMQ
• SonarQube
• Vault / Secrets Manager
• Experience with microservices and distributed systems
• Experience working in Agile/Scrum environments.