DevOps Engineer - W2 contract - Hybrid at CA / TX / IL

We are seeking an experienced DevOps / Cloud Engineer to support cloud infrastructure automation, CI/CD pipelines, containerized applications, cloud security, monitoring, and platform reliability. The ideal candidate will have strong hands-on experience with AWS, Terraform, Kubernetes, GitLab CI/CD, infrastructure as code, security scanning, and cloud monitoring.

Key Responsibilities

• Automate cloud infrastructure provisioning and deployments using Terraform, AWS CloudFormation, and AWS CLI.

• Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines using GitLab CI/CD and GitLab runners.

• Deploy and manage containerized applications using Docker, Kubernetes, and Amazon ECR.

• Implement cloud security best practices, including IAM, role-based access, OIDC authentication, Zero Trust, and least-privilege access.

• Integrate security scanning tools such as GitLab SAST, Secret Detection, and Trivy into CI/CD pipelines.

• Manage AWS services, troubleshoot infrastructure issues, perform root cause analysis, and improve platform reliability.

• Implement monitoring, dashboards, and alerting using Datadog and Prometheus.

• Develop Python and Bash scripts to automate operational tasks and reduce manual effort.

• Support AWS networking, including VPC, IAM, and secure application connectivity.

• Manage cloud-based data science platforms and workloads running on Kubernetes and AWS.

• Implement container image vulnerability scanning and enforce security checks before production deployments.

• Support workload execution and compute infrastructure using AWS Batch and AWS-hosted HPC clusters.

• Optimize cloud resource utilization, performance, security, and operational costs.

• Collaborate with development, data science, and security teams to improve cloud platform operations and deployment processes.

Required Skills

• Strong experience with AWS Cloud Services

• Infrastructure as Code: Terraform and AWS CloudFormation

• CI/CD: GitLab CI/CD and GitLab Runners

• Containerization: Docker and Kubernetes

• Scripting: Python and Bash

• Cloud Security: AWS IAM, OIDC, Zero Trust, and least-privilege access

• Security Tools: GitLab SAST, Secret Detection, Amazon ECR scanning, and Trivy

• Monitoring and Observability: Datadog and Prometheus

• AWS networking, troubleshooting, incident management, and root cause analysis

• Experience with cloud automation, deployment pipelines, and production support