Senior DevOps Engineer

Title: Sr. DevOps Engineer

Duration: 12 mo contract, likely extensions or conversion

Schedule: M-F day shift, core hours (EST/CST, flexible)

Location: 100% REMOTE anywhere in the US

Compensation: $70-75/hr approx.

Start Date: ASAP (approx. 2-3 weeks after offer acceptance)

Why Open: Additional support needed / business growth

Interview Process: 2 rounds

Auth: USC only (client requirement due to sensitive data that can be accessed)

Must Haves:

• 10yrs+ DevOps experience
• 6yrs+ working in cloud environments (AWS, Azure, GCP)
• 5yrs+ exp with Terraform (IaC) & Ansible (configuration management)
• Pipeline expertise (create/maintain/troubleshoot)
• Ability to automate tasks/processes with scripting languages such as Python, AWS Lambda, Azure Functions, etc
• Experience with version control tools such as Git/GitHub/GitLab

Plusses:

• Expertise with Concourse CI and/or GitLab

Job Summary:

We are seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer to join a rapidly growing, customer-focused cloud engineering team supporting a large-scale SaaS environments. This role operates within a highly ticket-driven model, where work is directly tied to customer-impacting issues, requiring strong troubleshooting skills, ownership, and the ability to balance reactive support with proactive improvements. In addition to resolving production issues, this individual will play a key role in driving automation and rebuilding existing processes to improve overall system reliability and efficiency. Much of the work will focus on identifying recurring issues and engineering long-term solutions, including strengthening critical workflows such as DNS playbooks by implementing guardrails and fail-safes. The environment emphasizes a proactive mindset, where engineers are expected to continuously look for opportunities to reduce manual effort and prevent future incidents.

This role sits at the intersection of operations and engineering, allowing you to take on manageable problems and turn them into scalable, automated solutions, while collaborating with a broader engineering team on more complex initiatives. You will also contribute to building and enhancing CI/CD pipelines, managing infrastructure through automation, and supporting a multi-cloud ecosystem. The team heavily leverages modern DevOps practices, enabling you to work across infrastructure, automation, and deployment workflows to improve system performance, stability, and operational maturity.