Client: Automotive

Job Title: AWS DevOps Lead

Location: Plano, TX, 75024 (Onsite)

Duration: 6–12 Months (Contract)

Working Hours: Standard CST (8/9 AM – 5/6 PM)

Pay-rate : $75 - $80/hr

• Lead, mentor, and grow a high-performing DevOps engineering team.
• Define and own the DevOps roadmap, standards, and best practices across CI/CD, automation, cloud infrastructure, monitoring, and configuration management.
• Collaborate with engineering leadership to align DevOps initiatives with business objectives.
• Act as both a technical leader and hands-on contributor.

• Architect, implement, and optimize CI/CD pipelines to support rapid and reliable releases.
• Drive automation across build, test, deployment, and environment provisioning processes.
• Introduce tools and frameworks that reduce manual effort and improve developer productivity.
• Maintain and improve existing pipelines and codebases; conduct peer code reviews.

• Design, deploy, and manage AWS cloud infrastructure for production systems.
• Ensure high availability, performance, scalability, and security of cloud environments.
• Implement Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform, CloudFormation, or similar tools.
• Perform cloud cost optimization, capacity planning, and resource governance.

• Establish end-to-end monitoring, logging, and observability using tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, and Splunk.
• Define and implement SLAs, SLOs, and SLIs to measure and improve system reliability.
• Partner with SRE and Support teams to improve incident response, root-cause analysis, and uptime.

• Integrate security best practices into CI/CD pipelines and cloud infrastructure.
• Work closely with cybersecurity and web security teams to ensure compliance with technical solutions.
• Ensure adherence to compliance standards such as SOC2, ISO 27001, HIPAA, GDPR, etc.
• Conduct security reviews, vulnerability assessments, and access control audits.

• Support development teams building microservices and containerized architectures.
• Manage Docker and Kubernetes-based platforms.
• Support QA teams with automated testing frameworks and test environments.
• Troubleshoot complex system and application issues across multiple domains.

• 7+ years of experience in DevOps, SRE, or Cloud Engineering roles.
• 2+ years of people management or technical leadership experience.
• Strong expertise in AWS (Azure/GCP experience is a plus).
• Hands-on experience with CI/CD tools such as Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, or Azure DevOps.
• Proficiency in Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CloudFormation, ARM).
• Strong Linux systems, networking, and cloud security knowledge.
• Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, and container orchestration.
• Solid scripting skills (Python, Bash, PowerShell, etc.).

• Strong leadership, coaching, and mentoring abilities.
• Excellent communication and cross-team collaboration skills.
• Strong problem-solving mindset with focus on stability, scalability, and speed.
• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, agile environment.