DevOps Engineer - W2 Contract

Need consultants local to Phoenix, AZ who can able to attend Onsite

Job Title: DevOps Engineer

Location: Phoenix, AZ Local

Duration: Long Term - W2 Consultants

Senior DevOps / Platform Engineer rather than a traditional software developer. The candidate should be highly skilled in observability, platform engineering, automation, and production support, with a strong focus on monitoring and analytics platforms.

Mandate:

• Expert-level Elastic Stack experience (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana, Grafana)
• Strong Python development skills
• Solid DevOps and platform engineering knowledge
• Experience with Kafka and data streaming
• Linux troubleshooting and production support experience
• Familiarity with Java-based applications
• Experience building observability, monitoring, and BI dashboards
• Strong problem-solving and production issue troubleshooting skills

Priority Order: Elastic Stack Python DevOps/Platform Engineering.

1. Elastic Stack (Highest Priority)

This is the most critical requirement.

Required expertise:

• Elasticsearch
• Logstash
• Kibana
• Grafana

Responsibilities:

• Build and maintain monitoring and observability dashboards
• Analyze logs and platform health metrics
• Develop operational and BI insights
• Troubleshoot production issues using Elasticsearch and Kibana
• Support enterprise-wide monitoring and reporting solutions

2. Python

Strong hands-on Python experience is required because the team is actively developing new services in Python.

The candidate should be able to:

• Develop and maintain backend services
• Debug and troubleshoot applications
• Write clean, maintainable code
• Review and improve AI-generated code when necessary
• Java experience is beneficial since existing services are currently built in Java.

3. DevOps & Platform Engineering

The ideal candidate should have a solid understanding of DevOps practices and platform operations, including:

• CI/CD pipelines
• Infrastructure automation
• Application deployments
• Production support
• Monitoring and alerting
• Linux administration and troubleshooting

Additional Mandatory Skills

• Experience with Kafka:
• Kafka-based data ingestion
• Event streaming platforms
• Enterprise data pipelines
• Experience with Linux:

Working knowledge sufficient to:

• Manage deployments
• Analyze logs
• Troubleshoot applications and services
• Support production environments
• Experience with Java
• Familiarity with Java-based applications
• Ability to support and maintain existing Java services