Description
Job Title: DevOps Engineer
Location: Alpharetta, GA - hybrid 3 days onsite
Hourly pay: $70 W2 only
Duration: 6 months with possibility of converting to permanent
- Due to client requirements, on USC or Green Card holders are eligible*
NO RELOCATION CANDIDATES WILL BE CONSIDERED
We are seeking a highly technical, hands-on DevOps / SRE Engineer to support critical product resiliency, reliability, security, and platform modernization initiatives.
This is an individual contributor role for an engineer who enjoys rolling up their sleeves, solving complex technical problems, writing code, and automating infrastructure and operational processes. The ideal candidate will bring strong experience across DevOps, SRE, AWS, CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code, and Kubernetes/EKS, along with a strong development background in Python and/or Java.
The team is also embracing modern AI-enabled engineering practices. Candidates should be actively using AI development tools such as Claude or similar technologies to improve their day-to-day development, troubleshooting, automation, and engineering workflows.
Qualifications:
- 6-9 years of professional experience in DevOps, SRE, Cloud Engineering, Software Engineering, or a related discipline.
- Strong hands-on experience in DevOps and/or Site Reliability Engineering.
- Strong experience developing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines.
- Strong Python development experience.
- Experience with AWS cloud technologies and cloud infrastructure.
- Hands-on experience with Amazon EKS and/or Kubernetes.
- Experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and infrastructure automation.
- Strong understanding of Linux/server administration fundamentals.
- Working knowledge of networking concepts and infrastructure troubleshooting.
- Experience with deployment automation and enterprise application environments.
- Strong understanding of application reliability, resiliency, scalability, and availability.
- Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to independently troubleshoot complex technical issues.
- Ability to quickly learn new technologies and apply them in a production environment.
- Strong communication and collaboration skills.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with Java development.
- Strong Amazon EKS / Kubernetes experience.
- Experience with Docker and containerization.
- Experience with cloud-native application deployment.
- Experience with Jenkins, Maven, Git, or similar CI/CD technologies.
- Experience with Terraform, CloudFormation, or other IaC tools.
- Experience with monitoring, observability, logging, and operational automation.
- Experience supporting large-scale enterprise applications or platforms.
- Experience with security engineering or secure software development practices.
- Exposure to AI/ML technologies or AI-enabled applications.
- Experience with Agile/Scrum development methodologies.