DevOps Engineer - Contractor Job Earth Texas USA,IT/Tech

Location: Earth

Responsibilities

Cloud Infrastructure Design & Operations:
Design, build, and optimize highly available and secure cloud architectures on AWS.

CI/CD Pipeline Development:
Design and maintain end-to-end pipelines from code commit to deployment — including build, test, artifact management, release, and rollback — to improve release frequency and quality.

Operations Automation:
Reduce manual toil through programming and automation tools (e.g., Ansible, Terraform, custom scripts/platforms) to automate configuration management, change execution, and incident response.

Infrastructure as Code (IaC):
Manage AWS cloud resources and network configurations using Terraform to ensure environment consistency, auditability, and reproducibility.

CDN Operations:
Configure, monitor, tune, and troubleshoot AWS CDN services to ensure acceleration and availability of static assets and streaming media.

Monitoring, Alerting & Observability:
Build and maintain monitoring, logging, and distributed tracing systems to enable rapid issue identification and drive capacity and performance optimization.

Requirements

Education & Experience:
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Telecommunications, or a related field.
- 3+ years of experience in Dev Ops, SRE, Cloud Operations, or Infrastructure Engineering.
Cloud Platform:
- Proficient with AWS: hands‑on experience with core services including EC2, VPC, IAM, S3, RDS, Lambda, EKS/ECS.
- Solid understanding of cloud‑native principles; familiar with containers (Docker), orchestration (Kubernetes or AWS EKS managed service), service mesh, and serverless technologies.
CI/CD:
- Proficient in designing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines (e.g., Git Lab CI, Git Hub Actions, ArgoCD).
- Familiar with pipeline design principles: multi‑environment management, branching strategies, artifact management, blue‑green/canary deployments, and rollback mechanisms.
Observability:
- Experience building and optimizing monitoring stacks such as Prometheus, Grafana, ELK/Loki.
Operations Automation & Programming:
- Strong automation programming skills: proficient in at least one scripting/programming language (e.g., Shell, Python, Go) for writing automation scripts and tools.
- Able to design automation solutions for operational scenarios and integrate with existing monitoring, ticketing, and configuration management systems.
Infrastructure as Code (IaC):
- Proficient with Terraform: able to manage AWS resources with modular design and proven hands‑on experience.
- Familiarity with Ansible for configuration management and batch operations (e.g., system initialization, application deployment, configuration distribution).
CDN Operations:
- Hands‑on CDN operations experience: familiar with AWS Cloud Front configuration, caching strategies, domain and certificate management.
- Able to perform bandwidth/traffic and cost analysis, origin optimization, troubleshooting, and SLA assurance.
Soft Skills:
- Strong documentation habits, communication, collaboration, and ability to drive initiatives across teams.
- Solid problem analysis and post‑mortem skills; able to participate in or lead root cause analysis and drive improvement actions.

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