Apply now: DevOps Engineer, location is Hybrid. The start date is ASAP for this contract position.
Job Title: DevOps Engineer
Location-Type: Hybrid (Austin, TX - Tuesday through Thursday Onsite)
Start Date Is: ASAP / Targeting July 2026
Duration: 12 Month Contract (Potential Conversion After 6 Months)
Compensation Range: $60/hr - $70/hr W2
Benefits: Eligible for Health, Dental, Vision, 401K
Must be authorized to work in the U.S. This position is not eligible for sponsorship.
Job Description:
Seeking a highly technical DevOps Engineer to design, build, and maintain large-scale infrastructure automation across multi-cloud environments. This role requires deep Ansible expertise, hands-on Terraform experience, strong Linux administration skills, and the ability to automate infrastructure delivery pipelines in highly secure cloud environments.
Day-to-Day Responsibilities:
- Design, build, and maintain infrastructure automation using Ansible Roles, Ansible Galaxy, and Terraform
- Manage and support large-scale Ansible environments consisting of 100 instances
- Develop modular, role-based automation rather than simple playbook execution
- Use Terraform to provision infrastructure and integrate deployments into Ansible automation workflows
- Support end-to-end infrastructure delivery pipelines across AWS, Azure, and GCP environments
- Perform Linux administration, networking, firewall management, and troubleshooting
- Collaborate with product and engineering teams to deliver scalable infrastructure solutions
- Maintain infrastructure-as-code repositories and manage code changes through GitLab workflows
- Build and maintain CI/CD automation processes
- Create and maintain technical documentation, SOPs, and operational runbooks
- Implement monitoring, logging, configuration management, and security best practices
- Leverage automation and emerging technologies to improve engineering efficiency
Minimum Requirements:
- 5 years of DevOps, Infrastructure Automation, or Cloud Engineering experience
- 5 years of hands-on Ansible experience using Ansible Roles and Ansible Galaxy
- Experience coding Ansible Roles and Playbooks in enterprise-scale environments (100 instances)
- 5 years of hands-on Terraform experience
- Experience building and maintaining Terraform modules in production environments
- Experience using Terraform to provision infrastructure and integrate deployments into Ansible workflows
- Multi-cloud experience across at least two of the following: AWS, Azure, or GCP
- Strong Linux administration experience
- Strong networking knowledge including routing, subnetting, firewalls, authentication, and cloud connectivity
- Experience with Python and/or Bash scripting
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure-as-code best practices
- Understanding of SDLC and software engineering principles
- Experience working in secure or highly regulated environments
Preferred Qualifications:- Kubernetes experience
- Docker experience
- AI or Generative AI project experience
- HashiCorp Vault experience
- Cloud certifications (AWS, Azure, GCP)
- Terraform certifications
- ServiceNow or ITIL experience
- Experience supporting large-scale distributed systems
