Senior DevOps Engineer (Remote, Contract)

Role overview Own and improve cloud infrastructure, delivery pipelines, and observability for production services, including newer LLM products and systems being modernized. The work combines hands-on AWS and Kubernetes operations with security hardening, reliability, cost management, and technical guidance for engineering teams.

Responsibilities - Build and operate AWS infrastructure using Terraform and Ansible, including EC2 and EKS; migrate suitable workloads to EKS. - Maintain GitHub Actions CI/CD and transition remaining Jenkins jobs to it. - Apply security standards covering Cloudflare WAF and proxying, restricted origin access, Systems Manager access, least-privilege IAM, secrets rotation, patching, and container hardening. - Run monitoring, alerting, logging, backup and restore practices; participate in on-call, incident response, and post-incident reviews. - Manage cloud costs through tagging, rightsizing, resource cleanup, and estimates for new work. - Audit undocumented or contractor-managed infrastructure, document it, and bring it under infrastructure-as-code and delivery standards. - Advise new projects on hosting design and production readiness; coordinate with contractors and mentor engineers.

Requirements - At least five years in DevOps or SRE, including three or more years operating AWS at scale in production. - Expert Terraform skills, strong Ansible proficiency, and experience building production workflows with GitHub Actions. - Production experience with Docker, Kubernetes, AWS EKS, and Helm. - Hands-on experience with platform security, secrets management, system patching, Cloudflare WAF/proxy configuration, on-call work, and verified backup restores. - English proficiency at B2 level or higher. - Strong Linux administration and Bash and Python scripting skills; able to work proactively and document standards across teams.

Nice to have Experience with Node.js or Python services, PostgreSQL, Redis, WordPress, Nginx, PHP-FPM, or MySQL; Grafana, Prometheus, OpenTelemetry, or Sentry; and Kafka/MSK, ClickHouse, Backstage, Langfuse, security scanning tools, or AWS/CKA certifications. Experience using AI developer tools and agents is valued.

Benefits and work setup Remote contract role with a Monday–Friday schedule of 2–11 p.m. Eastern European Time, including a one-hour break. The listing mentions paid time off and sick leave, shorter Friday hours during summer, and days off on U.S. national holidays and the employee’s birthday.