

AWS DevOps Technical Lead
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This role is for an AWS DevOps Technical Lead in Plano, TX, with a 9+ month contract, paying $48-$50/hr. Key skills include AWS services, Terraform, GitHub Actions, and experience with data lakes. Full-time onsite commitment required.
π - Country
United States
π± - Currency
$ USD
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π° - Day rate
400
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ποΈ - Date discovered
June 26, 2025
π - Project duration
More than 6 months
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ποΈ - Location type
On-site
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π - Contract type
W2 Contractor
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π - Security clearance
Unknown
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π - Location detailed
Plano, TX
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π§ - Skills detailed
#Cloud #Lambda (AWS Lambda) #Scripting #IAM (Identity and Access Management) #SQL (Structured Query Language) #Deployment #Monitoring #API (Application Programming Interface) #Containers #Data Lake #Spark (Apache Spark) #EC2 #Automation #AWS DevOps #VPC (Virtual Private Cloud) #DevOps #AWS (Amazon Web Services) #Databricks #DynamoDB #Shell Scripting #GitHub #Terraform #S3 (Amazon Simple Storage Service) #Redshift #Athena #Python
Role description
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BCforward is currently seeking a highly motivated AWS DevOps Technical Lead opportunity in Plano, TX!
Position Title: AWS DevOps Technical Lead
Location: Plano, TX
Anticipated Start Date: 07/07
Please note this is the target date and is subject to change. BCforward will send official notice ahead of a confirmed start date.
Expected Duration: 9+ months contract + Renewable
Job Type: [FULL TIME (>=40 HRS WEEKLY) [CONTRACT], [ONSITE]
Pay Range: $48 - $50/hr W2 only
Please note that actual compensation may vary within this range due to factors such as location, experience, and job responsibilities, and does not encompass additional non-standard compensation (e.g., benefits, paid time off, per diem, etc.).
Responsibilities:
β’ Extensive experience in designing, configuring, deploying, managing and automating AWS Core Services like S3, IAM, EC2, Route53, LB, CloudWatch, Lambda, KMS, Secrets Manager and VPC.
β’ Experience in automating cloud deployments using Terraform and Terragrunt.
β’ Experience in GitHub Actions based DevOps
β’ Experience in managing a data lake on AWS or strong knowledge on AWS data platform services like Redshift, DynamoDB, Databricks, and Athena.
β’ Administering the deployment, management, and monitoring of applications deployed on AWS via CI/ CD and/ or containers.
β’ Monitoring usage, cost, and implementing optimizations of a variety of AWS resources.
β’ Maintaining the GHA pipeline and perform code promotions through change management
β’ Deploy and manage AWS Serverless application running on API Gateway and Lambda.
β’ Deploy Redshift Clusters into VPC with encryption, enable cross region snapshots, configure subnet groups and setup monitoring, and resize the cluster using elastic and classic methods
β’ Manage Databricks jobs, SQL warehouse, access to data.
β’ Manage Denodo, integration to all services in the data lake.
β’ Manage the open-source spark cluster.
β’ Comply with all agreed SLA requirements for all service requests, incidents and changes.
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β’ Required Skills:
β’ AWS (experience mandatory): S3, IAM, EC2, Route53, LB, CloudWatch, Lambda, KMS, Secrets Manager, Cloud Trail and VPC.
β’ Automation (experience mandatory): Terraform
β’ Bigdata (knowledge mandatory): Databricks or Redshift
β’ DevOps (mandatory): GitHub Actions, Python/ Shell scripting
Benefits:
BCforward offers all eligible employees a comprehensive benefits package including, but not limited to major medical, HSA, dental, vision, employer-provided group life, voluntary life insurance, short-term disability, long-term disability, and 401k.
Keywords:
AWS, Terraform, Bigdata, DevOps