TITLE: SENIOR DEVOPS ENGINEERLocation: Englewood, CO (Hybrid role)
Pay Rate: $88 per hour
Duration: 8+ month contract
Summary:
Our aerospace and defense client is seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer to design, automate, and optimize highly scalable deployment environments. This role will focus on CI/CD, virtualization, containerization, infrastructure automation, and reliable software delivery across cloud, on-premises, hybrid, and edge environments.
Description Senior DevOps Engineer:- Design, implement, and maintain scalable CI/CD pipelines supporting cloud, on-premises, and hybrid deployment environments.
- Automate infrastructure provisioning and configuration management to create consistent and reliable environments.
- Standardize and optimize deployment workflows to support repeatable release processes across varying product and customer requirements.
- Monitor, troubleshoot, and improve the performance and reliability of distributed systems and complex integrations.
- Design and manage infrastructure solutions using virtualization, containerization, and orchestration technologies.
- Collaborate with development, QA, security, product, and operations teams to align deployment strategies with architectural and security requirements.
- Support microservices and container-based application deployments.
- Drive continuous improvement of DevOps tooling, deployment processes, and release operations.
- Develop best-practice documentation for environment configuration, deployment, and release processes.
- Coordinate release readiness activities and maintain configuration control across development environments.
- Mentor software and systems engineers on DevOps methodologies and best practices.
- Work as part of a larger software development team to rapidly deliver operational capabilities.
Qualifications Senior DevOps Engineer:- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field.
- 8+ years of DevOps or related professional experience.
- A higher-level relevant degree may substitute for a portion of the experience requirement.
- Candidates without a degree must have a minimum of 12 years of related experience.
- Hands-on virtualization experience with RHEL KVM and VMware technologies.
- Hands-on experience with Docker, Kubernetes and/or OpenShift and related container ecosystems.
- Experience establishing virtualization and containerization environments for edge deployments or standalone compute systems.
- Demonstrated experience implementing microservices and container-based architectures.
- Experience with developer and source-control tools such as GitHub.
- Strong knowledge of release engineering and CI/CD pipelines.
- Experience delivering reliable, consistent development systems and environments.
- Ability to work independently with minimal supervision while contributing effectively to both small and large teams.
- Strong organizational, communication, collaboration, and interpersonal skills.
- Aerospace and defense industry experience, including multiple security domains and air-gapped systems, is preferred.
- Advanced Ansible experience, including developing and maintaining playbooks, is preferred.
- VMware, Red Hat, OpenShift, and Kubernetes certifications such as VCP, RHCSA, CKAD, or CKA are preferred.
- Experience with release readiness, configuration control, process documentation, and technical training is preferred.
- Ability to work on a computer for extended periods and communicate frequently with team members and stakeholders.
- Ability to lift up to 10 lbs. occasionally.
- Ability to travel occasionally as required.
Benefits:- Pay rate: $88 per hour
- Available health, life, vision, and dental insurance
- 401(k) matching
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