Senior DevOps Engineer

Join our mission-critical enterprise platforms team supporting high-volume legal and claims processing solutions. As a Senior Dev Ops Engineer, you will drive modern infrastructure practices, streamline deployment velocity, and spearhead the migration of legacy delivery pipelines to scalable cloud environments. This is a 12-month remote contract opportunity operating within an Agile, engineering-centric culture.

location:
Telecommute
job type:
Contract
salary: $60.87 - 66.67 per hour
work hours: 8am to 5pm
education:
Bachelors

• Operate within an Agile Scrum SDLC environment, contributing to requirements analysis, technical design, implementation, deployment, monitoring, incident response, and continuous improvement.
• Design, build, maintain, and optimize CI/CD pipelines that enable secure, repeatable, and reliable application delivery.
• Develop and maintain infrastructure-as-code, configuration management, and automation frameworks for cloud environments.
• Build and evolve observability capabilities, including application and infrastructure monitoring, logging, alerting, tracing, dashboards, service-level indicators, and service-level objectives.
• Improve the reliability, scalability, performance, security, and cost efficiency of production systems.
• Lead or support application, infrastructure, database, and cloud migration initiatives, including planning, automation, validation, rollback strategies, and post-migration monitoring.
• Develop automation tools and frameworks that reduce manual operational work and improve engineering productivity.
• Partner with application teams to establish deployment standards, operational readiness criteria, monitoring requirements, and incident-response practices.
• Troubleshoot production incidents, identify root causes, document findings, and implement durable corrective and preventive actions.
• Proactively identify risks in technical designs, deployment processes, system performance, observability coverage, or architecture and elevate them appropriately.
• Apply AI tools as part of daily work to analyze systems, troubleshoot issues, design automation, improve documentation, and accelerate delivery workflows.
• Collaborate with engineers and cross-functional stakeholders to establish scalable platform and Dev Ops practices.
• Mentor engineers in areas such as CI/CD, cloud operations, observability, automation, infrastructure-as-code, and production support.
• - Demonstrate a self-directed, bias-for-action mindset when solving operational and engineering problems.

Job Qualifications and Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in Dev Ops, Site Reliability Engineering, platform engineering, cloud engineering, or a related software engineering discipline.
• 3+ years of experience designing, implementing, and maintaining CI/CD pipelines and automated deployment processes.
• 3+ years of experience deploying, operating, and troubleshooting applications in cloud environments;
  Microsoft Azure is strongly preferred.
• Experience with infrastructure-as-code and configuration automation tools, such as Terraform, Bicep, ARM templates, Ansible, or similar technologies.
• Experience implementing observability solutions, including centralized logging, metrics, alerting, dashboards, distributed tracing, and incident response processes.
• Experience building automation frameworks or scripting operational workflows using technologies such as JavaScript, Type Script, Node.js, Python, Power Shell, Bash, or similar languages.
• Experience supporting application, database, infrastructure, or cloud migration efforts.
• Experience working with SQL databases and data migration or deployment processes.
• Experience supporting high-volume, highly available, multi-tier enterprise systems.
• Experience leveraging AI tools to analyze, design, debug, automate, document, and improve daily engineering workflows.
• Familiarity with security best practices for cloud infrastructure, application delivery, identity, secrets management, and vulnerability remediation.
• Strong oral and written communication skills.
• Outstanding troubleshooting, incident-management, and technical support skills.

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