Senior DevOps Engineer — Contractor

We are looking for a Senior DevOps Engineer with strong AWS, Terraform, Kubernetes, database, and infrastructure security experience to work with our fintech client.
The engineer should be able to independently own infrastructure projects, make technical decisions, communicate directly with client teams, and support the professional growth of other team members.

This is a hourly contractor role

Responsibilities
Own infrastructure projects from technical design through implementation and production rollout.
Design, automate, and maintain AWS infrastructure using Terraform.
Develop and improve CI/CD pipelines.
Maintain development, staging, and production environments.
Operate, upgrade, and troubleshoot Kubernetes clusters, primarily AWS EKS.
Maintain and troubleshoot database infrastructure, backups, replication, performance, and high-availability configurations.
Implement infrastructure security best practices, access controls, secrets management, vulnerability monitoring, and security remediation.
Implement and improve monitoring, logging, alerting, and observability.
Participate in production incident response, root cause analysis, and preventive improvements.
Review infrastructure changes and provide technical guidance to other engineers.
Create and maintain clear technical and operational documentation.
Communicate infrastructure changes, risks, incidents, and recommendations to client teams.
Requirements
7+ years of professional experience in DevOps, SRE, Platform Engineering, or a similar role.
Strong hands-on experience with production AWS environments.
Strong experience with Terraform and infrastructure-as-code practices.
Production experience with Docker and Kubernetes.
Experience managing and troubleshooting AWS EKS clusters.
Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions, Jenkins
Strong Linux administration and troubleshooting skills.
Scripting experience with Bash or Python.
Practical experience with relational and NoSQL databases, including services such as PostgreSQL, MySQL, RDS, Aurora, MongoDB, or Redis.
Understanding of database backups, replication, failover, migrations, performance monitoring, and high availability.
Strong understanding of infrastructure and cloud security principles.
Experience with AWS IAM, secrets management, encryption, network security, vulnerability remediation, and least-privilege access.