Remote Position
[Remote] Senior DevOps Engineer
🌍 Remote · United States
💼 Full-time
Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Randstad Digital is recruiting for a Senior DevOps Engineer to support a mission-critical enterprise platforms team handling high-volume legal and claims processing solutions. The role focuses on modernizing infrastructure practices, improving deployment velocity, and migrating legacy delivery pipelines to scalable cloud environments in a remote contract position.
Responsibilities
- Operate within an Agile Scrum SDLC environment, contributing to requirements analysis, technical design, implementation, deployment, monitoring, incident response, and continuous improvement
- Design, build, maintain, and optimize CI/CD pipelines that enable secure, repeatable, and reliable application delivery
- Develop and maintain infrastructure-as-code, configuration management, and automation frameworks for cloud environments
- Build and evolve observability capabilities, including application and infrastructure monitoring, logging, alerting, tracing, dashboards, service-level indicators, and service-level objectives
- Improve the reliability, scalability, performance, security, and cost efficiency of production systems
- Lead or support application, infrastructure, database, and cloud migration initiatives, including planning, automation, validation, rollback strategies, and post-migration monitoring
- Develop automation tools and frameworks that reduce manual operational work and improve engineering productivity
- Partner with application teams to establish deployment standards, operational readiness criteria, monitoring requirements, and incident-response practices
- Troubleshoot production incidents, identify root causes, document findings, and implement durable corrective and preventive actions
- Proactively identify risks in technical designs, deployment processes, system performance, observability coverage, or architecture and escalate them appropriately
- Apply AI tools as part of daily work to analyze systems, troubleshoot issues, design automation, improve documentation, and accelerate delivery workflows
- Collaborate with engineers and cross-functional stakeholders to establish scalable platform and DevOps practices
- Mentor engineers in areas such as CI/CD, cloud operations, observability, automation, infrastructure-as-code, and production support
- Demonstrate a self-directed, bias-for-action mindset when solving operational and engineering problems
Skills
- 5+ years of experience in DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering, platform engineering, cloud engineering, or a related software engineering discipline
- 3+ years of experience designing, implementing, and maintaining CI/CD pipelines and automated deployment processes
- 3+ years of experience deploying, operating, and troubleshooting applications in cloud environments
- Experience with infrastructure-as-code and configuration automation tools, such as Terraform, Bicep, ARM templates, Ansible, or similar technologies
- Experience implementing observability solutions, including centralized logging, metrics, alerting, dashboards, distributed tracing, and incident response processes
- Experience building automation frameworks or scripting operational workflows using technologies such as JavaScript, TypeScript, Node.js, Python, PowerShell, Bash, or similar languages
- Experience supporting application, database, infrastructure, or cloud migration efforts
- Experience working with SQL databases and data migration or deployment processes
- Experience supporting high-volume, highly available, multi-tier enterprise systems
- Experience leveraging AI tools to analyze, design, debug, automate, document, and improve daily engineering workflows
- Familiarity with security best practices for cloud infrastructure, application delivery, identity, secrets management, and vulnerability remediation
- Strong oral and written communication skills
- Outstanding troubleshooting, incident-management, and technical support skills
- Microsoft Azure is strongly preferred
Benefits
- Medical, prescription, dental, vision, AD&D, and life insurance offerings (based on eligibility)
- Short-term disability (based on eligibility)
- A 401K plan (based on eligibility)
- Remote contract opportunity
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