Mid Level Devops Engineer - W2

Senior DevOps Engineer

Location: Parsippany, NJ / Alpharetta, GA
Type: Contract

Job Description:
We are looking for a strong DevOps Engineer to support AWS infrastructure, Kubernetes environments, CI/CD pipelines, database infrastructure, production resiliency, and security remediation initiatives. The ideal candidate will have strong hands-on experience with AWS, EKS, Jenkins, infrastructure automation, monitoring/observability, and Python scripting.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain AWS infrastructure, with workloads running primarily on Amazon EKS.
• Manage and support Kubernetes/EKS environments across enterprise applications.
• Develop, maintain, and troubleshoot a large number of Jenkins CI/CD pipelines.
• Build and maintain infrastructure for databases, including provisioning, configuration, availability, and scalability.
• Provide Tier 2/Tier 3 infrastructure support and troubleshoot production issues.
• Implement and maintain high availability, resiliency, disaster recovery, and performance improvements.
• Monitor applications and infrastructure using Splunk, Dynatrace, and Grafana.
• Automate operational tasks and infrastructure processes using Python scripting.
• Collaborate with application, database, security, and infrastructure teams to resolve complex technical issues.
• Identify and remediate security vulnerabilities, ensuring infrastructure and applications meet security standards.

Must-Have Skills

• AWS
• Amazon EKS / Kubernetes
• Jenkins / CI/CD
• Infrastructure & Database Infrastructure
• Production/Tier 2 or Tier 3 Infrastructure Support
• Resiliency & High Availability
• Splunk
• Dynatrace
• Grafana
• Python scripting – preferred
• Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving skills
• Experience with security vulnerability remediation