DevOps Engineer - Plano, TX

DevOps Engineer on W2

Location – Morristown, NJ; Purchase, NY, Alpharetta, GA; Charlotte, NC; Chicago, IL; Conshohocken, PA; Denver, CO; Fargo, ND; Garden City, NY; Houston, TX; Lenexa, KS; Lubbock, TX; Morristown, NJ; Mt Juliet, TN; New York, NY; Purchase, NY; Topeka, KS

Long term contract

Start - ASAP

Summary:

Designs, implements, and optimizes DevOps practices, CI/CD pipelines, deployment automation, and cloud-native delivery platforms. Enables secure, reliable, and efficient software delivery by improving development workflows, release processes, infrastructure automation, platform reliability, and operational resilience across enterprise environments.

Role Responsibilities:

• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines supporting enterprise application delivery and release management processes.
• Engineer deployment automation frameworks that improve release quality, consistency, scalability, and efficiency.
• Administer container platforms, Kubernetes environments, and supporting orchestration technologies.
• Enable development teams by improving build, test, deployment, and release workflows.
• Integrate automated testing, validation, security scanning, and compliance controls into delivery pipelines.
• Monitor platform health, deployment performance, and application reliability metrics to identify improvement opportunities.
• Resolve deployment failures, application delivery issues, and platform incidents through troubleshooting and root cause analysis.
• Implement DevOps best practices that improve software delivery speed, operational stability, and engineering productivity.
• Collaborate with cloud, infrastructure, security, and application teams to deliver scalable and resilient technology solutions.
• Develop automation scripts and tooling using modern scripting and programming languages to reduce manual effort and operational risk.
• Maintain deployment standards, release procedures, operational documentation, and support runbooks.
• Evaluate emerging DevOps technologies and recommend improvements that enhance platform capabilities and software delivery processes.
• Mentor engineers and team members on DevOps methodologies, automation frameworks, and platform engineering practices.
• Participate in operational support activities and serve as an escalation resource for critical deployment and platform issues.

TECHNICAL QUALIFICATIONS:

DevOps & CI/CD

• 7+ years of experience in DevOps, software engineering, infrastructure engineering, or platform engineering roles.
• Strong experience designing, implementing, and supporting CI/CD pipelines and release management processes.
• Experience with Azure DevOps, GitHub, GitHub Actions, or comparable DevOps platforms.
• Strong understanding of source control, branching strategies, release management, and deployment methodologies.

Containers & Cloud-Native Technologies

• Experience administering container platforms and orchestration technologies, including Kubernetes.
• Strong understanding of containerization concepts and application deployment patterns.
• Experience supporting cloud-native application environments and distributed systems.

Automation & Scripting

• Strong proficiency with PowerShell, Python, Bash, or similar scripting languages.
• Experience developing automation solutions that improve deployment efficiency and operational consistency.
• Familiarity with Infrastructure as Code concepts and deployment automation frameworks.

Monitoring & Reliability

• Experience implementing monitoring, logging, observability, and alerting solutions.
• Strong troubleshooting and root cause analysis capabilities across application and platform environments.
• Experience supporting highly available and resilient production systems.

Security & Compliance

• Knowledge of DevSecOps principles and secure software delivery practices.
• Experience integrating security controls, vulnerability scanning, and compliance requirements into deployment pipelines.
• Understanding of identity management, secrets management, and access control practices within DevOps environments.

Preferred

• Experience supporting Azure cloud environments.
• Experience with Terraform, Bicep, or other Infrastructure as Code platforms.
• Experience with Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) practices.
• Relevant DevOps, Kubernetes, Azure, or cloud certifications.

General Qualificiations:

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Strong analytical, troubleshooting, and problem-solving capabilities.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities within complex enterprise environments.
• Strong collaboration skills and the ability to work effectively across technical disciplines.
• Ability to influence engineering practices and promote continuous improvement.
• Strong organizational and documentation skills.

• Demonstrated commitment to continuous learning and professional development.

·         Ability to work independently while contributing effectively within a team environment.

Educational Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related field preferred.

·         DevOps, Kubernetes, Azure, cloud, or automation-related certifications are preferred.