DevOps Engineer : W2 role

Job Description

**DevOps Engineer**

**Contract-to-Hire**

**Employment Eligibility**

This is a contract-to-hire opportunity and is **not available on a corp-to-corp basis.** Candidates must be currently authorized to work in the United States and **must not require employer sponsorship now or in the future.**

**Key Responsibilities**

• Support the deployment and successful launch of a customer-facing technology platform

• Design, implement and maintain scalable cloud infrastructure within AWS

• Build, maintain and optimize CI/CD pipelines to support efficient software delivery

• Collaborate closely with software engineers, product leaders and business stakeholders

• Support and modify live production applications while identifying bugs and implementing fixes

• Troubleshoot production issues and drive root cause analysis through resolution

• Monitor application performance, system reliability and infrastructure health

• Implement observability, logging, alerting and incident response processes

• Manage infrastructure as code and environment configuration

• Support security, compliance and operational best practices

• Continuously improve deployment processes, automation and platform reliability

• Partner with engineering teams to streamline development workflows

• Contribute to application development and code-level troubleshooting when needed

• Evaluate and leverage AI-powered tools to improve productivity, automation and operational effectiveness

**Qualifications**

**Required**

• 3+ years of experience in DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering, Cloud Infrastructure or a related software engineering role

• Strong experience supporting AWS-based environments

• Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines

• Experience supporting production applications in cloud environments

• Demonstrated ability to troubleshoot, modify and improve live software

• Experience with infrastructure automation and deployment tooling

• Knowledge of monitoring, logging and observability solutions

• Strong troubleshooting, debugging and problem-solving skills

• Ability to collaborate effectively with software engineers, product leaders and business stakeholders

• Excellent communication and collaboration abilities

**Preferred**

• Full-stack software engineering experience

• Experience building and shipping customer-facing software with active users

• Experience supporting applications throughout the full software development lifecycle

• Experience working in Agile software development environments

• Startup or high-growth company experience

• Experience supporting or developing React-based applications

• Familiarity with modern backend architectures and APIs

• Experience with Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform or CloudFormation

• Experience supporting containerized environments and orchestration platforms

• Experience working with Rust or a similar modern backend language

• Interest in emerging AI technologies and experience using AI tools to enhance engineering productivity and operational efficiency

**Technology Environment**

The role will focus primarily on cloud infrastructure, software delivery and operational excellence. Exposure to the broader technology stack is highly beneficial:

• AWS Cloud Platform

• React

• Rust

• Modern backend architectures and APIs

• Infrastructure as Code

• Containerization and orchestration technologies

• Modern CI/CD and DevOps tooling

• Monitoring, logging and observability platforms

• AI-powered engineering and productivity tools

**Location**

Preferred locations include:

• Charlotte, North Carolina

• Durham, North Carolina

• Denver, Colorado

Remote candidates located within these markets will be considered. Occasional onsite collaboration in Charlotte is strongly preferred.