Senior DevOps Engineer 3 days Onsite project

Senior DevOps Engineer Onsite project - Hybrid 2/3 days onsite

Location: Nashville, TN

Duration: 12 Months+

Rate: $50-60/Hr

We are seeking a talented and motivated DevOps Engineer to join our Technology & Digital team in Nashville, TN. In this role, you will design, implement, and maintain CI/CD pipelines, cloud infrastructure, and automation frameworks that power client's digital platforms, streaming integrations, and internal tooling. You will work closely with software engineers, data teams, and security to build resilient, scalable, and secure systems that support the global music ecosystem.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain CI/CD pipelines using tools such as Jenkins, GitHub Actions, or GitLab CI to accelerate software delivery across Client's digital platforms.
• Manage and optimize cloud infrastructure on AWS and/or Azure, including compute, networking, storage, and serverless components.
• Implement Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform, CloudFormation, or Pulumi to ensure repeatable and auditable environments.
• Monitor system health, performance, and availability using observability tools (Datadog, Grafana, PagerDuty, ELK stack); proactively respond to incidents.
• Collaborate with software engineering teams to containerize applications using Docker and orchestrate workloads with Kubernetes (EKS, AKS, or GKE).
• Partner with the security team to embed security practices across the SDLC, including secrets management, vulnerability scanning, and compliance automation.
• Maintain internal developer platforms, self-service portals, and shared tooling to improve engineering productivity across Nashville and global teams.
• Support database infrastructure (PostgreSQL, MySQL, DynamoDB, Redis) including backups, performance tuning, and failover strategies.
• Lead incident response, post-mortem processes, and continuous improvement initiatives to improve mean time to recovery (MTTR).
• Document architecture decisions, runbooks, and operational procedures to ensure knowledge sharing across the team.

Required Qualifications

• 7+ years of hands-on DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering, or Platform Engineering experience in a production environment.
• Proficiency with at least one major cloud provider (AWS preferred; Azure or Google Cloud Platform considered).
• Strong experience with CI/CD tools (GitHub Actions, Jenkins, CircleCI, or equivalent).
• Solid understanding of containerization and orchestration: Docker and Kubernetes.
• Experience writing IaC with Terraform or equivalent tooling.
• Scripting skills in Python, Bash, or Go for automation and tooling.
• Familiarity with monitoring and observability platforms (Datadog, PrometheGrafana, Splunk, or ELK).
• Understanding of networking fundamentals: DNS, TLS/SSL, load balancing, firewalls, and VPNs.
• Strong communication skills with the ability to collaborate across technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in the media, entertainment, or music industry, including streaming platform integrations (Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon Music, TIDAL).
• Familiarity with digital rights management (DRM) infrastructure or content delivery pipelines.
• AWS Certified DevOps Engineer, Solutions Architect, or equivalent certification.
• Experience with GitOps workflows using ArgoCD or Flux.
• Familiarity with data pipeline tooling: Apache Kafka, Airflow, or AWS Glue.
• Prior work in a multi-region, globally distributed infrastructure environment.