Job Specifications
Title: DevOps Engineer
Location: Richmond, VA- 3 days Hybrid
Duration: 12+ Months of Contract
Job Description
A DevOps Engineer with Python and AWS expertise is responsible for automating, deploying, and maintaining cloud-based applications while ensuring high availability, security, and performance. This role heavily focuses on AWS infrastructure, CI/CD automation, and Python scripting to streamline development-to-production workflows.
The engineer works closely with application developers, cloud architects, and support teams to build scalable, reliable, and cost-efficient systems on AWS.
Key Responsibilities (Python + AWS Focused)
Design, deploy, and manage AWS cloud infrastructure using services such as EC2, S3, RDS, Lambda, VPC, IAM, CloudWatch, and ELB
Develop and maintain Python scripts for automation, deployment, monitoring, and operational tasks
Build and support CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, or AWS CodePipeline
Implement Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform or AWS CloudFormation
Containerize applications using Docker and manage deployments using Kubernetes (EKS)
Monitor system health, logs, and performance using CloudWatch, Prometheus, Grafana, ELK
Manage AWS security and access control (IAM roles, policies, secrets management)
Perform production support, troubleshooting, incident resolution, and root cause analysis
Optimize AWS cost, performance, and scalability
Collaborate with development teams to improve release automation and reliability.
EEO: Mindlance is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate in employment on the basis of – Minority/Gender/Disability/Religion/LGBTQI/Age/Veterans.
About the Company
Founded in 1999, Mindlance is one of the largest diversity-owned staffing firms in the US and has been on SIA's list of Fastest Growing US Staffing Firms for 10 years. Mindlance has also been recognized as one of the consistently best performing partners to industry-leading MSP programs including Allegis, Kelly, TAPFIN, PROUnlimited, Pontoon, GRI, WorkforceLogiq and Agile-1. What started with contingent staffing has developed to a comprehensive portfolio of workforce solutions. Along with industry specific, talent-centric st...
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