Job Title: DevOps Engineer
Job Location: Dallas, TX
Job Type: Contract
Job Description:
- Design, build, and maintain scalable, secure, and resilient CI/CD pipelines that support rapid, reliable software delivery across all engineering teams.
- Architect and manage cloud infrastructure on AWS and Azure using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) principles, ensuring environments are reproducible, auditable, and cost-optimized.
- Establish and enforce DevOps best practices, standards, and guardrails across the software development lifecycle - from code commit through production deployment.
- Serve as a technical bridge between development and operations, understanding application architecture, dependencies, and requirements to design optimal deployment strategies.
- Champion a Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) mindset: define SLOs, SLIs, and error budgets, and drive improvements in system availability, performance, and incident response.
- Collaborate with security teams to embed DevSecOps practices into pipelines, ensuring vulnerability scanning, compliance validation, and secrets management are integral - not afterthoughts.
- Mentor and provide technical leadership to development and operations teams on cloud-native patterns, automation strategies, operational excellence, and best practices.
- Drive platform engineering initiatives that reduce toil, improve developer experience, and accelerate time-to-market for new features and services.