Senior DevOps Engineer (Remote, Contract)

Job summary

Own and evolve AWS infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, and observability across production LLM products and legacy systems. Lead the migration of suitable workloads from EC2 to EKS and Jenkins to GitHub Actions, while enforcing zero-trust security, managing incident response and backup testing, and improving infrastructure cost and reliability using Terraform, Ansible, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, and Cloudflare.

Benefits

Qualifications

• At least 5 years of DevOps or SRE experience, including 3 or more years operating AWS at scale.
• Expertise in Terraform, strong proficiency with Ansible, and experience designing production GitHub Actions workflows.
• Production experience with Docker and Kubernetes, particularly AWS EKS and Helm.
• Hands-on experience with platform hardening, zero-trust security, secrets management, system patching, and Cloudflare WAF and proxy configuration.
• Comfort with on-call rotations, incident response, and verified backup restoration drills.
• English proficiency at B2 level or higher.
• Experience supporting Node.js and Python microservices with PostgreSQL and Redis, and web stacks using WordPress, Nginx, PHP-FPM, and MySQL behind Cloudflare.
• Practical experience configuring and maintaining Grafana, Prometheus, and OpenTelemetry pipelines.
• Strong Linux administration and Bash and Python scripting skills.
• Ability to manage, document, and standardize work across internal teams and external contractors.
• Daily experience using AI developer tools and agents; Claude Code is preferred.

Responsibilities

• Design, operate, and secure AWS infrastructure using EC2, Docker Compose, EKS, Terraform, and Ansible; migrate suitable workloads to EKS.
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines in GitHub Actions and migrate remaining Jenkins jobs.
• Enforce security baselines, including Cloudflare WAF and rate limiting, private origins, SSM access, least-privilege IAM, secrets rotation, patching, and non-root containers.
• Own monitoring, alerting, and logging with Grafana, OpenTelemetry, and Sentry; participate in on-call, incident response, and post-incident reviews.
• Manage backups and conduct regular restore tests.
• Control AWS costs through tagging, rightsizing, resource cleanup, and project estimates.
• Proactively review infrastructure, identify risks and waste, and propose improvements.
• Document contractor-managed or undocumented infrastructure and bring it under infrastructure-as-code, CI/CD, and established standards.
• Review hosting designs, estimate costs, and prepare infrastructure for production-readiness reviews.
• Coordinate with internal teams and contractors, establish standards, and mentor engineers.

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Work schedule

Relocation