Only independent visa candidates (W2 role)
Title: Devops Engineer
Location: Austin TX (Hybrid model three days onsite per week)
Duration: Long Term Contract
Overview of Job/Team:
You are an experienced DevOps Engineer who thrives in a fast-paced, Agile environment. You have a passion for innovation, solid design principles, and high-quality development. You excel at designing, improving, and maintaining secure, performant infrastructure and enjoy automating processes to ensure efficiency and scalability. You are a proactive problem solver with a strong understanding of system and networking concepts.
What You'll Do:
- Infrastructure Design and Maintenance:
- Design, improve, and maintain secure, durable, and performant infrastructure to power APIs, web applications, and data mining/ETL workflows to meet established SLAs.
- Collaborate with developers to bring new products and services into production.
- Automation and Monitoring:
- Automate testing, deployment, and monitoring of all products and services throughout the software development lifecycle.
- Continuously improve operational processes and apply best practices to ensure scalability, security, and availability.
- Security and Compliance:
- Proactively meet standards for information security and compliance, such as SOC 2/ISO27001.
- Implement and uphold security measures across all infrastructure components.
Requirements:
- Professional Experience:
- At least 8 years of professional experience in a DevOps role maintaining production infrastructure, preferably supporting a highly available environment for a SaaS or cloud service provider.
- Technical Proficiency:
- Strong working knowledge of AWS services such as EC2, ECS or EKS, Lambda, API Gateway, RDS, DynamoDB, Cloudwatch, S3, Github Actions, Code/Build/Pipeline/Deploy, etc.
- Strong working knowledge of Terraform or similar tools, Ansible, AWS CLI/SDK, Boto.
- Proficiency with scripting languages such as Python, Bash, etc., and Linux environments.
- Strong understanding of system and networking concepts and troubleshooting techniques for bare metal and containerized workloads.
- Additional Skills:
- Experience with release automation, system administration and configuration, and system debugging.
