- Company Name
- Spring Financial
- Job Title
- Senior DevOps Engineer (6-month Contract)
- Job Description
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Job title: Senior DevOps Engineer (6‑Month Contract)
Role Summary: 6‑month contract to modernize and scale the DevOps infrastructure and CI/CD pipelines for a fintech platform. Lead design, implementation, and optimization of cloud, container, and automation systems to enhance reliability, cost efficiency, and delivery speed.
Expectations:
- Deliver measurable improvements within the 6‑month timeline.
- Quickly understand existing architecture and identify systemic issues.
- Drive architecture decisions and cross‑team collaboration with engineering, security, and platform groups.
- Mentor and set best practices for engineering teams.
Key Responsibilities:
- Design and implement scalable, secure cloud infrastructure using IaC (e.g., Terraform, CDK, CloudFormation).
- Own and evolve CI/CD pipelines; lead migration to GitOps with ArgoCD/Flux and ensure zero‑downtime deployments.
- Build robust observability (Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, Datadog) and alerting solutions.
- Enhance logging, monitoring, incident response, and cost‑control practices.
- Define and enforce access, audit, and reliability standards across the organization.
- Identify and mitigate technical debt, scalability risks, and operational incidents.
- Guide platform investment decisions in partnership with product and engineering leadership.
Required Skills:
- Extensive CI/CD pipeline design and management (GitOps, ArgoCD/Flux).
- Deep expertise in a major cloud provider (AWS) and IaC tools (Terraform, CloudFormation, CDK).
- Proficiency with containerization and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes, Helm, EKS).
- Scripting/automation in Python or Go.
- Advanced Linux/UNIX administration; strong Git proficiency.
- Network architecture (VPC, DNS, routing, service mesh) and cloud security (IAM, threat modeling, compliance automation).
- Observability and monitoring strategy (Prometheus stack, Grafana, Loki, Datadog).
- Proven leadership in infrastructure strategy and high‑availability systems.
- Business‑first mindset for technical trade‑offs.
Required Education & Certifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field (or equivalent experience).
- Certifications preferred: AWS Certified Solutions Architect, Certified Kubernetes Administrator, Terraform Associate, or similar.