DevOps Engineer

Paradigm Information Services, Inc. | Contract

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This is a remote position.

Paradigm is seeking an experienced Senior Dev Ops Engineer to design, build, and maintain the cloud infrastructure, automation, and deployment systems supporting high-volume, mission-critical enterprise applications.

This hands-on engineering role focuses on improving system reliability, scalability, security, and performance through cloud infrastructure management, CI/CD automation, infrastructure-as-code, and advanced monitoring and observability.

The ideal candidate brings strong technical expertise, excellent troubleshooting skills, and a proactive approach to solving complex engineering challenges. Working closely with software development, QA, security, and business teams, this individual will help streamline software delivery, modernize infrastructure, and improve production operations.

Type: Contract

Duration: 12-month
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Pay Rate: $60.87- $66.67/hour

Benefits: Medical, dental, vision, life, 401(k), PTO, and sick leave

Location: Remote – approved U.S. locations

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* Assignment lengths are estimated based on the expected workload and scope of work. The assignment may be extended or conclude earlier than anticipated based on business needs.

Approved Hiring Locations: Alabama, Arizona, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nevada, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia, Washington DC, and Wisconsin.

• Design, deploy, maintain, and optimize cloud infrastructure, primarily within Microsoft Azure.
• Develop and maintain infrastructure-as-code (IaC), configuration management, and automation solutions.
• Build reusable tools and frameworks to streamline operations, reduce manual processes, and improve engineering productivity.
• Improve the reliability, scalability, performance, security, and cost efficiency of production environments.

• Design, implement, and maintain secure, scalable CI/CD pipelines and automated deployment processes.
• Collaborate with development and QA teams to improve release efficiency, deployment reliability, and application performance.
• Establish and maintain deployment standards, operational readiness requirements, and release management practices.
• Participate in Agile Scrum development activities, including technical planning, implementation, testing, and deployment.

• Implement and enhance monitoring and observability solutions, including centralized logging, metrics, alerting, dashboards, and distributed tracing.
• Establish and maintain service-level indicators (SLIs) and service-level objectives (SLOs).
• Troubleshoot complex production issues, conduct root-cause analysis, and implement lasting corrective solutions.
• Identify and proactively address infrastructure, application performance, and operational risks.
• Support incident response and continuous improvement of production systems.

• Lead or contribute to cloud, application, database, and infrastructure migration initiatives.
• Develop migration plans, automation scripts, validation procedures, rollback strategies, and post-migration monitoring.
• Collaborate with engineering teams to modernize infrastructure and improve system architecture.

Mandatory:

• 5+ years of professional experience in Dev Ops, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), platform engineering, cloud engineering, or a closely related discipline.
• 3+ years of experience designing, implementing, and maintaining CI/CD pipelines and automated deployment processes.
• 3+ years of hands-on experience deploying, operating, and troubleshooting applications in cloud environments, preferably Microsoft Azure.
• Experience with infrastructure-as-code and configuration management tools such as Terraform, Azure Bicep, ARM templates, or Ansible.
• Experience implementing monitoring and observability solutions, including logging, metrics, alerting, dashboards, and distributed tracing.
• Experience supporting cloud, application, infrastructure, or database migrations.
• Working knowledge of SQL databases and database deployment or migration processes.
• Experience…