DevOps Engineer

Carrollton

**Title: Senior DevOps Engineer** **Location: Carrollton, TX** **Duration: 5 months contract (potential to go PERM eventually)** **Work Model -- 100% Office** **Pay rate $72 Per hr on W2 Max** **Responsibilities:** * Design, implement, and manage scalable and resilient infrastructure on AWS. * Architect and maintain Windows/Linux based environments, ensuring seamless integration with cloud platforms. * Develop and maintain infrastructure-as-code(IaC) using both AWS CloudFormation/CDK and Terraform/OpenTofu. * Develop and maintain Configuration Management for Windows \& Linux servers using Chef. * Design, build, and optimize CI/CD pipelines using GitLab CI/CD for .NET applications. * Integrate and support AI services, including orchestration with AWS Bedrock, Google Agentspace, and other generative AI frameworks, ensuring they can be securely and efficiently consumed by platform services. * Enable AI/ML workflows by building and optimizing infrastructure pipelines that support large-scale model training, inference, and deployment across AWS and GCP environments. * Automate model lifecycle management (training, deployment, monitoring) through CI/CD pipelines, ensuring reproducibility and seamless integration with development workflows. * Collaborate with AI engineering teams to deliver scalable environments, standardized APIs, and infrastructure that accelerate AI adoption at the platform level. * Implement observability, security, data privacy and cost-optimization strategies specifically for AI workloads, including monitoring and resource scaling for inference services. * Implement and enforce security best practices across the infrastructure and deployment processes. * Collaborate closely with development teams to understand their needs and provide Platform expertise. * Troubleshoot and resolve infrastructure and application deployment issues. * Implement and manage monitoring and logging solutions to ensure system visibility and proactive issue detection. * Clearly and concisely contribute to the development and documentation of Platform Engineering standards and best practices. * Stay up-to-date with the latest industry trends and technologies in cloud computing, Platform Engineering, and security. * Provide mentorship and guidance to junior team members. **Qualifications:** * Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent experience). * 5+ years of experience in a Platform Engineering, DevOps or Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) role. * 1+ year(s) of experience with AI services \& LLMs. * Extensive hands-on experience with Amazon Web Services (AWS) * Solid understanding of Windows/Linux Server administration and integration with cloud environments. * Proven experience with infrastructure-as-code tools, specifically AWS CDK and Terraform. * Strong experience designing and implementing CI/CD pipelines using GitLab CI/CD. * Experience deploying and managing .NET applications in cloud environments. * Deep understanding of security best practices and their implementation in cloud infrastructure and CI/CD pipelines. * Solid understanding of networking principles (TCP/IP, DNS, load balancing, firewalls) in cloud environments. * Experience with monitoring and logging tools (e.g., NewRelic, CloudWatch). * Strong scripting skills (e.g., PowerShell, Python, Ruby, Bash). * Excellent problem-solving and troubleshooting skills. * Strong communication and collaboration skills. * Experience with containerization technologies (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes) is a plus. * Relevant AWS and/or GCP certifications are a plus. * Experience with the configuration management tool Chef **Preferred Qualifications:** * Knowledge of and a strong understanding of PowerShell and Python Scripting * Strong background with AWS EC2 features and Services (Autoscaling and WarmPools) * Understanding of Windows server Build process using tools like Chocolaty for packages and Packer for AMI/Image generation. * Extensive hands-on experience with Amazon Web Services (AWS) If you're interested in above role please send me your updated resume to chakrvarthi.savalam@ispace.com