

DevOps Engineer
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This role is for a DevOps Engineer with a 6-month contract, offering a pay rate of "X". Candidates must have 4+ years of AWS experience, expertise in IaC (Terraform), and strong Linux skills. AWS Certified DevOps/Solution Architect certification is required.
π - Country
United States
π± - Currency
$ USD
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π° - Day rate
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ποΈ - Date discovered
September 27, 2025
π - Project duration
Unknown
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ποΈ - Location type
Unknown
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π - Contract type
Unknown
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π - Security clearance
Unknown
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π - Location detailed
California, United States
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π§ - Skills detailed
#Deployment #DevOps #Ansible #"ETL (Extract #Transform #Load)" #GIT #EC2 #SQL Server #AWS (Amazon Web Services) #Dynatrace #Firewalls #GitLab #Kafka (Apache Kafka) #VPC (Virtual Private Cloud) #Infrastructure as Code (IaC) #Disaster Recovery #Virtualization #Clustering #IP (Internet Protocol) #Cloud #IAM (Identity and Access Management) #MS SQL (Microsoft SQL Server) #SQL (Structured Query Language) #Scripting #Web Services #Database Management #ELB (Elastic Load Balancing) #Python #Azure #Oracle #S3 (Amazon Simple Storage Service) #Security #Automation #Java #Documentation #RDS (Amazon Relational Database Service) #.Net #Azure DevOps #API (Application Programming Interface) #Load Balancing #Jenkins #Linux #Terraform #Monitoring
Role description
Top 3-5 Must Haves (Required by VMO to Post role)
β’ Experience setting up alerts / alarms / notifications in AWS cloud. CloudWatch / Dynatrace
β’ Experience with AWS solutions using AWS services including Kafka, ECS, EKS.
β’ Experience with IaC (Infrastructure as code) CDK or Terraform.
Areas to Focus on:
β’ AWS background
β’ Automation,
β’ Monitoring
β’ CI/CD
β’ Site Reliability background
β’ System Administration skill on Linux and OS
β’ 24/7 Environment support and troubleshooting
Job Description:
Responsibilities
β’ Monitoring sites, environments, and software by implementing tools and automation to achieve 99.9% uptime.
β’ Measurement, optimization, and tuning of system performance and ensuring that systems will run reliably and are highly available in a 24/7 production environment.
β’ Automate system and application monitoring using monitoring and automation tools
β’ Anticipating potential problems before they occur and coming up with solutions.
β’ Conducting post-incident reviews and Root Cause Analysis.
β’ Documenting your work to turn findings into repeatable actions.
β’ Coding automation within a site infrastructure.
β’ Implement production monitoring systems.
β’ Utilize strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
β’ Security assessments and addressing vulnerabilities.
β’ Design and deploy AWS solutions using AWS services (i.e. EC2, S3, Glacier, ELB, RDS, IAM, Route 53, VPC, Auto Scaling, Cloud Watch, Cloud Trail, Cloud Formation, Security Groups, API Gateway, SSM, Route table, Endpoint service, etc.)
β’ Provision, management, and day-to-day operations of AWS environments
β’ Implement alarms / alerts / notifications using AWS services (i.e. Cloud Watch)
β’ Implement AWS Multi AZ accounts for HA and DR
β’ Design AWS infrastructure that minimize operational costs through push-button deployment at scale with near-zero downtime.
β’ Develop and maintain configuration management solutions.
β’ Provide technical guidance, knowledge transfers and mentorship to State Fund internal engineering
peers as required and lead technical staff responsibilities.
β’ Server Maintenance based on updates, system requirements, data usage, and antivirus requirements.
β’ Responsible for the design, implementation, and support of large scale web farm infrastructure across multiple data centers supporting the Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) offering.
β’ Help engineering implement new technologies in development for future production deployment.
β’ Working with team to analyze and design infrastructure witch includes virtualization, clustering, database, disaster recovery, and geographic redundancy.
β’ Triage and provide technical solutions to environment related issues encountered by new and existing applications
β’ Support developers with change requests, uptime, and performance related issues.
β’ Documentation of work in regards to bug reports, systems analysis, application monitoring, and common task reporting
β’ Author internal documentation, such as environment diagrams, installation/configuration documents and release notes.
β’ Assist in establishing and implementing configuration management program and policies.
β’ Troubleshoot and debug environment and infrastructure problems found in the production and non-production environments.
β’ Collaborating with software developers, engineers, and operations teams.
β’ Provide 24 by 7 production support
Technical Knowledge and Skills:
β’ 6+ years of overall IT experience
β’ 4+ years of AWS Cloud management experience with below skill set
β’ AWS Certified DevOps and / or Solution Architect certification
β’ Experience in AWS provisioning, operations, and management of AWS environments.
β’ Experience setting up alerts / alarms / notifications in AWS cloud. CloudWatch / Dynatrace
β’ Experience with AWS solutions using AWS services including Kafka, ECS, EKS.
β’ Experience with IaC (Infrastructure as code) CDK or Terraform.
β’ Experience setting up / maintaining multi AZ infrastructure including HA and DR in AWS.
β’ Experience with code repositories Azure DevOps Server, GIT, GITLab, SVN
β’ Experience with continuous integration tools Jenkins, Azure Pipelines
β’ Excellent knowledge of Linux systems
β’ Experience with system automation and configuration management tools including Ansible
β’ Experience with Python scripting
β’ Strong background in networking, load balancing, and firewalls
β’ High-level understanding of networking standard protocols and components such as: HTTP, DNS, TCP/IP, ICMP, the OSI Model, Subnetting and Load Balancing
β’ Thorough understanding of and experience with managing web applications in a highly available environment
β’ Experience in Software development is a plus
β’ Familiarity with deploying and configuring Java and .Net applications.
β’ Experience with Application Security Testing tools a plus (Coverity, Tenable, BlackDuck, etc)
β’ Understanding of SQL, PL/SQL, and T-SQL commands
β’ Preferred Skills:Passion for AWS cloud architecture, provisioning, monitoring, and maintenance management
β’ Passion for improving software development processes and desires to automate any repetitive work you ever do. Familiarity with configuration management
β’ Enthusiasm for working closely with developers to understand ops requirements
β’ Experience with large project rollouts at an enterprise level
β’ Detailed knowledge of Windows and Linux Operating Systems
β’ Good knowledge of SCM (software configuration management)
β’ Working knowledge of web services, web application development, Oracle database Server, multi-tier application systems
β’ Good knowledge of software configuration, source control, and build engineering, scripting and system administration is required
β’ Database management expertise: MS SQL Server, Oracle
β’ Strong troubleshooting and problem solving skills, including application and network-level troubleshooting ability
β’ Technical writing skills
β’ Knowledge/experience with troubleshooting installing and configuring SSL certificates
β’ Understanding of TCP/IP, UDP, IP ROUTING, SSH/SFTP/SCP, DNS, FTP, SMTP
Top 3-5 Must Haves (Required by VMO to Post role)
β’ Experience setting up alerts / alarms / notifications in AWS cloud. CloudWatch / Dynatrace
β’ Experience with AWS solutions using AWS services including Kafka, ECS, EKS.
β’ Experience with IaC (Infrastructure as code) CDK or Terraform.
Areas to Focus on:
β’ AWS background
β’ Automation,
β’ Monitoring
β’ CI/CD
β’ Site Reliability background
β’ System Administration skill on Linux and OS
β’ 24/7 Environment support and troubleshooting
Job Description:
Responsibilities
β’ Monitoring sites, environments, and software by implementing tools and automation to achieve 99.9% uptime.
β’ Measurement, optimization, and tuning of system performance and ensuring that systems will run reliably and are highly available in a 24/7 production environment.
β’ Automate system and application monitoring using monitoring and automation tools
β’ Anticipating potential problems before they occur and coming up with solutions.
β’ Conducting post-incident reviews and Root Cause Analysis.
β’ Documenting your work to turn findings into repeatable actions.
β’ Coding automation within a site infrastructure.
β’ Implement production monitoring systems.
β’ Utilize strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
β’ Security assessments and addressing vulnerabilities.
β’ Design and deploy AWS solutions using AWS services (i.e. EC2, S3, Glacier, ELB, RDS, IAM, Route 53, VPC, Auto Scaling, Cloud Watch, Cloud Trail, Cloud Formation, Security Groups, API Gateway, SSM, Route table, Endpoint service, etc.)
β’ Provision, management, and day-to-day operations of AWS environments
β’ Implement alarms / alerts / notifications using AWS services (i.e. Cloud Watch)
β’ Implement AWS Multi AZ accounts for HA and DR
β’ Design AWS infrastructure that minimize operational costs through push-button deployment at scale with near-zero downtime.
β’ Develop and maintain configuration management solutions.
β’ Provide technical guidance, knowledge transfers and mentorship to State Fund internal engineering
peers as required and lead technical staff responsibilities.
β’ Server Maintenance based on updates, system requirements, data usage, and antivirus requirements.
β’ Responsible for the design, implementation, and support of large scale web farm infrastructure across multiple data centers supporting the Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) offering.
β’ Help engineering implement new technologies in development for future production deployment.
β’ Working with team to analyze and design infrastructure witch includes virtualization, clustering, database, disaster recovery, and geographic redundancy.
β’ Triage and provide technical solutions to environment related issues encountered by new and existing applications
β’ Support developers with change requests, uptime, and performance related issues.
β’ Documentation of work in regards to bug reports, systems analysis, application monitoring, and common task reporting
β’ Author internal documentation, such as environment diagrams, installation/configuration documents and release notes.
β’ Assist in establishing and implementing configuration management program and policies.
β’ Troubleshoot and debug environment and infrastructure problems found in the production and non-production environments.
β’ Collaborating with software developers, engineers, and operations teams.
β’ Provide 24 by 7 production support
Technical Knowledge and Skills:
β’ 6+ years of overall IT experience
β’ 4+ years of AWS Cloud management experience with below skill set
β’ AWS Certified DevOps and / or Solution Architect certification
β’ Experience in AWS provisioning, operations, and management of AWS environments.
β’ Experience setting up alerts / alarms / notifications in AWS cloud. CloudWatch / Dynatrace
β’ Experience with AWS solutions using AWS services including Kafka, ECS, EKS.
β’ Experience with IaC (Infrastructure as code) CDK or Terraform.
β’ Experience setting up / maintaining multi AZ infrastructure including HA and DR in AWS.
β’ Experience with code repositories Azure DevOps Server, GIT, GITLab, SVN
β’ Experience with continuous integration tools Jenkins, Azure Pipelines
β’ Excellent knowledge of Linux systems
β’ Experience with system automation and configuration management tools including Ansible
β’ Experience with Python scripting
β’ Strong background in networking, load balancing, and firewalls
β’ High-level understanding of networking standard protocols and components such as: HTTP, DNS, TCP/IP, ICMP, the OSI Model, Subnetting and Load Balancing
β’ Thorough understanding of and experience with managing web applications in a highly available environment
β’ Experience in Software development is a plus
β’ Familiarity with deploying and configuring Java and .Net applications.
β’ Experience with Application Security Testing tools a plus (Coverity, Tenable, BlackDuck, etc)
β’ Understanding of SQL, PL/SQL, and T-SQL commands
β’ Preferred Skills:Passion for AWS cloud architecture, provisioning, monitoring, and maintenance management
β’ Passion for improving software development processes and desires to automate any repetitive work you ever do. Familiarity with configuration management
β’ Enthusiasm for working closely with developers to understand ops requirements
β’ Experience with large project rollouts at an enterprise level
β’ Detailed knowledge of Windows and Linux Operating Systems
β’ Good knowledge of SCM (software configuration management)
β’ Working knowledge of web services, web application development, Oracle database Server, multi-tier application systems
β’ Good knowledge of software configuration, source control, and build engineering, scripting and system administration is required
β’ Database management expertise: MS SQL Server, Oracle
β’ Strong troubleshooting and problem solving skills, including application and network-level troubleshooting ability
β’ Technical writing skills
β’ Knowledge/experience with troubleshooting installing and configuring SSL certificates
β’ Understanding of TCP/IP, UDP, IP ROUTING, SSH/SFTP/SCP, DNS, FTP, SMTP