DevOps Platform Engineer - contract to hire - Hybrid - Plano, TX or Columbus, OH - W2 only

DevOps Platform Engineer

Position Overview

Location: Hybrid role with 1-2 days per week in office. Candidates must live within 60 miles of Plano, TX or Columbus, OH.

There are 3 open role and the pay range is $40-70 per hour based on experience. W2 eligible candidates only.

We are seeking a Senior DevOps Platform Engineer to build and improve enterprise platforms supporting modern software development. This role focuses on cloud engineering, DevOps, automation, developer experience, and AI-enabled engineering.

Key Responsibilities

• Design and build enterprise platforms, shared services, and self-service capabilities
• Develop automation to improve software development, deployment, and engineering productivity
• Build and support cloud-native solutions and CI/CD pipelines
• Improve platform reliability, monitoring, observability, and security
• Develop reusable APIs, frameworks, templates, and engineering standards
• Support AI-enabled solutions including LLMs, AI agents, RAG, MCP, and automated workflows
• Partner with Engineering, Architecture, Cloud, and Security teams

Key Skills

• DevOps & Platform Engineering
• AWS, Azure and/or Google Cloud
• CI/CD & Infrastructure as Code
• Automation & Developer Experience
• SRE, Monitoring & Observability
• AI/LLMs, RAG, MCP & Agentic Workflows
• Security & Governance

Required Certification

Candidates must hold at least one:

• AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
• Microsoft Azure Fundamentals
• Google Cloud Digital Leader

Qualifications

• Strong experience in DevOps, platform engineering, cloud engineering, software engineering, or automation
• Experience designing and implementing enterprise platform solutions
• Ability to lead technical projects and work across multiple engineering teams
• Bachelor's degree in a related technical field or equivalent professional experience