DevOps Engineer

Status: 12-Month Contract

Job Title: Senior DevOps Engineer

Location: 100% Remote

Salary: $60-$66/hr

About the company:

For over 25+ years, we have established clear expertise and integrity in legal, administrative, compliance, and workplace transformation services. We thrive on the biggest challenges, whether from midsize enterprises, Fortune 100 companies, or G7 government departments. By employing time-tested processes and cutting-edge technology alongside a relentless drive for reliable service, we produce major bottom-line results for our clients: reduced costs, mitigated risk, improved productivity, and more efficient resource allocation. Our clients trust us as key partners providing innovative solutions, sound counsel, and comprehensive administrative support.

Senior DevOps Engineer:

Our client is seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer to build and strengthen the delivery pipelines, cloud platforms, and monitoring that keep their high-volume, business-critical applications running smoothly. In this hands-on role, you will work alongside engineering, QA, security, data, and business partners to improve reliability, speed up releases, and make life easier for developers.

This role is fully remote.

Senior DevOps Engineer Responsibilities:

• Design, build, and optimize CI/CD pipelines that deliver applications securely, reliably, and repeatably.
• Create and maintain observability solutions, including monitoring, alerting, logging, tracing, dashboards, and service-level indicators and objectives.
• Develop infrastructure-as-code and automation frameworks to provision and manage cloud environments.
• Modernize and migrate legacy pipelines, applications, databases, and infrastructure, including planning, validation, rollback strategies, and post-migration monitoring.
• Troubleshoot production incidents, determine root causes, and put lasting corrective and preventive measures in place.
• Improve the performance, scalability, security, and cost efficiency of production systems.
• Build tools that reduce manual operational work and boost engineering productivity.
• Partner with application teams to set deployment standards, operational readiness criteria, and incident-response practices.
• Identify and escalate risks in technical designs, deployment processes, and system performance.
• Use AI tools in daily work to analyze systems, troubleshoot issues, build automation, and improve documentation.
• Mentor fellow engineers and serve as a technical resource and liaison between technical teams, management, and business stakeholders.
• Contribute to an Agile Scrum environment, from requirements and design through deployment and continuous improvement.

Senior DevOps Engineer Qualifications:

• 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, with Microsoft Azure strongly preferred.
• Hands-on experience implementing observability solutions, including centralized logging, metrics, alerting, dashboards, and distributed tracing.
• 5+ years of experience in DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering, platform engineering, or cloud engineering.
• Experience with infrastructure-as-code and configuration tools such as Terraform, Bicep, ARM templates, or Ansible.
• Proficiency in scripting and automation using languages such as Python, PowerShell, Bash, JavaScript, TypeScript, or Node.js.
• Experience supporting highly available, multi-tier enterprise systems with high transaction volumes.
• Working knowledge of SQL databases, including data migration and deployment processes.
• Familiarity with cloud security best practices, including identity, secrets management, and vulnerability remediation.
• Experience using AI tools to analyze, debug, automate, and document engineering work.
• Strong incident-management, troubleshooting, and technical support skills.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

Preferred:

• Experience migrating legacy pipelines to modern CI/CD platforms.
• Experience leading or significantly contributing to complex cloud, application, or database migrations.
• Advanced experience with service-level objectives, alert tuning, and operational dashboards.
• Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, or Azure Kubernetes Service.
• Experience building reusable infrastructure modules and automation frameworks.
• Experience with NoSQL databases, messaging platforms, or event-driven architectures.
• Experience using AI agents to chain together operational tasks and automate workflows.
• Advanced degree or training in a related technical field.