DevOps Contractor (6 months) - West Coast PST - $90/hour REMOTE

Confidential Hires; United States; Remote; USD 96,000 - 165,000; Full time

Job summary

Confidential Hires is seeking a fully remote DevOps Contractor for a 6-month engagement (full-time hours). This role will strengthen automation, reliability, and security of a cloud-based software environment, partnering with Engineering, QA, and IT Operations to improve the software delivery lifecycle and scalable AWS-based applications.

Must be able to work 3-10pm Pacific (west coast) hours as needed. Responsibilities include building CI/CD pipelines, provisioning AWS infrastructure with

Qualifications

• Three to five years hands-on DevOps, cloud engineering, or related automation experience.
• Experience with CI/CD tools such as Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, or similar.
• Hands-on AWS experience with EC2, ECS/EKS, Lambda, RDS, S3, CloudWatch.
• Proven Terraform experience provisioning and managing cloud infrastructure.
• Experience with Docker and containerized deployments.

Responsibilities

• Partner with Engineering, QA, and Operations to streamline delivery and collaboration.
• Build, enhance, and maintain CI/CD pipelines for automated deployments.
• Develop automation for deployment, infrastructure management, monitoring, and operations.
• Provision and manage AWS infrastructure using IaC (Terraform, Ansible, CloudFormation).
• Implement logging, monitoring, alerting, and incident response capabilities.
• Embed security practices into infrastructure and pipelines.
• Containerize and deploy using Docker and AWS ECS/EKS.
• Create clear technical documentation for infrastructure and deployment processes.
• Participate in production deployments and off-hours operational support.

Skills

DevOps

CI/CD

AWS

Terraform

Docker

Scripting

Troubleshooting

Tools

Jenkins

GitHub Actions

GitLab CI

Terraform

Ansible

CloudFormation

Docker

Job description

We are seeking a fully REMOTE hands-on DevOps Contractor for a 6 month engagement (full time hours.) THis role will strengthen the automation, reliability, and security of a cloud-based software environment. This contract role will partner closely with Engineering, QA, and IT Operations to improve the software delivery lifecycle, automate infrastructure and deployments, and support scalable AWS-based applications.

Must be able to work 3-10pm Pacific (west coast) hours as needed.

Key Responsibilities

• Partner with Engineering, QA, and Operations teams to streamline delivery processes and improve collaboration across the software development lifecycle.
• Build, enhance, and maintain CI/CD pipelines that support reliable, automated application deployments and rapid feedback.
• Develop automation for application deployment, infrastructure management, configuration, monitoring, and operational tasks; identify practical opportunities to use AI-assisted tooling to reduce manual effort.
• Provision and manage AWS infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code, primarily Terraform, with Ansible or CloudFormation as applicable.
• Implement and maintain logging, monitoring, alerting, and health-check capabilities to improve application performance, reliability, and incident response.
• Embed security best practices into infrastructure and CI/CD pipelines.
• Containerize and deploy applications using Docker and AWS ECS/EKS.
• Create and maintain clear technical documentation for infrastructure, automation, deployment processes, and operational procedures.
• Participate in production deployments, troubleshooting, and off-hours operational support as needed.

Qualifications

• Three to five years of hands-on DevOps, Cloud Engineering, or related infrastructure automation experience.
• Strong experience with CI/CD tools such as Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, or similar platforms.
• Hands-on AWS experience, including services such as EC2, ECS/EKS, Lambda, Fargate, RDS, S3, SQS, SNS, and CloudWatch.
• Proven Terraform experience provisioning and managing cloud infrastructure.
• Experience with Docker and containerized application deployment.
• Proficiency with scripting or automation languages such as Python, Bash, or PowerShell; a Java development background is a plus.
• Working knowledge of cloud networking concepts, including VPCs, subnets, security groups/firewalls, DNS, HTTP/HTTPS, and TCP/IP.
• Familiarity with Git, Jira, Confluence, and Agile development practices.
• Strong troubleshooting, analytical, and documentation skills, with a continuous-improvement mindset.
• Must be willing and able to pass a background check