Contract DevOps Engineer - Flexible Hours & Mentoring

Energy Innovation Corp; Bowling Green (KY); On-site; USD 69,000 - 107,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible hours

Paid sabbaticals

Mentoring program

Job summary

Industrial Plus in Bowling Green, KY is seeking a contract DevOps Engineer to scale systems handling traffic across KY and beyond. This role values ownership over busywork and long‑term growth investments.

You will work with Apache Kafka, Datadog, and networking tooling to improve performance, reliability, and automation. Flexible hours and a mentoring program support a balanced, self‑directed team environment.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of experience with active listening and stakeholder engagement.
• Strong understanding of technology best practices and industry standards.
• Ability to align diverse stakeholders and make decisions without constant approval.
• Clear, direct communication and proactive problem solving.

Responsibilities

• Profile Apache Kafka memory use and identify leaks affecting Bowling Green nodes.
• Prototype Kafka ideas fast and select those for production in Industrial Plus's stack.
• Spot Datadog anti-patterns before they spread across teams.
• Build networking self-service tools to reduce tickets.
• Reverse‑engineer the Creativity format and document it.
• Automate manual networking chores to save engineering hours.
• Hand off Kafka runbooks to on-call engineers.

Skills

Active Listening

Stakeholder diplomacy

Problem-solving

Communication

Tech best practices

Tools

Apache Kafka

Datadog

Networking tools

Job description

Industrial Plus in Bowling Green, KY is seeking a contract DevOps Engineer to scale systems handling traffic across KY and beyond. This role values ownership over busywork and long‑term growth investments.

You will work with Apache Kafka, Datadog, and networking tooling to improve performance, reliability, and automation. Flexible hours and a mentoring program support a balanced, self‑directed team environment.