Software Engineer 4 - Contingent

Position: Software Engineer 4 - Contingent
Location: Columbus, OH (3075 Loyalty Cir) Charlotte, NC (CIC)
Duration: Contract (18-24 months)
Job ID: 176731
Pay range: 55-60$/hr on w2

Job Description:

• Lead DevOps Engineer
• Client is seeking a hands on Platform Engineer to design, build, and operate scalable, cloud native platforms that enable secure and efficient application delivery.
• This role focuses on Kubernetes and OpenShift platforms, GitOps driven CI/CD workflows, and automation across OCP, Azure and Google Cloud Platform.
• The ideal candidate is passionate about developer enablement, infrastructure as code, and building resilient, self service platforms using modern automation and cloud technologies.

• Hands-on DevOps and platform engineering expert driving DevOps transformation, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), and GitOps based delivery models.
• Designed and enabled end to end DevOps workflows, integrating infrastructure automation with CI/CD pipelines (GitOps / GitHub Actions) to support microservices deployment at scale.
• Automated microservices deployments across Kubernetes and OCP environments, achieving 100% deployment automation using Harness, reducing manual errors, and significantly improving release speed and reliability.
• Implemented GitOps workflows using declarative configurations and JSON/YAML based pipelines, ensuring consistency, repeatability, and auditability across environments.
• Enabled cloud native platform delivery across Azure and Google Cloud Platform, aligning infrastructure, application deployment, and security controls through code.
• Embedded DevSecOps practices, observability, and pipeline instrumentation to improve visibility into pipeline performance, failures, and operational trends, accelerating troubleshooting and reducing MTTR.
• Developed automation and tooling using Python, integrating with CI/CD, infrastructure provisioning, and deployment workflows.
• Established centralized version tracking and release visibility, improving governance, traceability, and consistency across global data centers and cloud platforms.
• Strong collaborator focused on developer enablement, self service platforms, and continuous delivery excellence through pragmatic, production grade engineering.

• Consult on complex initiatives with broad impact and large-scale planning for Software Engineering.
• Review and analyze complex multi-faceted, larger scale or longer-term Software Engineering challenges that require in-depth evaluation of multiple factors including intangibles or unprecedented factors.
• Contribute to the resolution of complex and multi-faceted situations requiring solid understanding of the function, policies, procedures, and compliance requirements that meet deliverables.
• Strategically collaborate and consult with client personnel.

• 5 plus years of Software Engineering experience, or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work or consulting experience, training, military experience, education.

• Title: Software Engineer 4/Devops
• # of Positions: 1
• Line of Business: TCOO
• Manager: Anil Thumati
• Location: Columbus, OH (3075 Loyalty Cir) Charlotte, NC (CIC)

• Net new
• Contract - 12 months, possibility to extend or convert
• RTO schedule - 3 days in office MANDATORY

• 45 minute technical panel
• 30 minute behavioral interview w/ RTM
• Virtual for Charlotte, Onsite for Columbus

• All resumes must be submitted in beeline or will not be reviewed
• No soliciting of resumes, nor communication should occur with the Reports to Manager while position is live.

• This team handles Devsec OPS automation for full COO technology portfolio.
• These positions will help with one or two apps of the 18 in the portfolio.
• Will start with the OTA Agile to Automation app, preferably CICD, deployments orchestrations, and quality gates.
• Should have right approach. Challenge has been a lot of tooling is available, but learning those used by client is required.
• Top technologies that this person will be working with include Gitops and Gitactions, Harness (for deployments), Maven (Java builds), Gradle (Java builds), Python builds.
• New position on the team due to increased workload.
• Hoping that the hire will be able to sync with the local team's schedules for 2 of their in-office days per week.

• 5 plus years' experience
• GitHub Actions
• Java builds experience (preferably Maven/Gradle)
• Deployment tool experience (preferably Harness)
• Python builds/CICD (Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery/Deployment)
• Kubernetes/OCP
• Should have worked in a large scale regulated industry and exposed to Devops in those orgs.
• Need to be aware of governance controls, audits, etc.

• Automation frameworks (Ansible/Terraform PFE)
• AI agentic frameworks
• Kubernetes certification
• Devops certification
• Bachelor's in Engineering/Compsci

Pay Range: $XXX - $XXX

The specific compensation for this position will be determined by a number of factors, including the scope, complexity and location of the role as well as the cost of labor in the market; the skills, education, training, credentials and experience of the candidate; and other conditions of employment. Our full-time consultants have access to benefits including medical, dental, vision and 401K contributions as well as any other PTO, sick leave, and other benefits mandated by appliable state or localities where you reside or work.