DevOps Engineer

Optomi; United States; On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Optomi, in partnership with a premier client, is seeking a hands‑on Senior DevOps Engineer with deep expertise in cloud‑native development, DevOps, and software engineering. In this hands‑on technical leadership role, you’ll design and deliver scalable, high‑performance systems and infrastructure.

You’ll work with engineering, data, and product teams to solve complex challenges in distributed systems, data management, and performance at scale.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of professional software development experience across multiple technical domains.
• Advanced, hands-on Python experience building backend services, cloud systems, or infrastructure tooling.
• Strong coding fundamentals, including data structures and algorithms, time/space complexity, and maintainable code.
• Experience designing, implementing, and operating distributed systems and data management solutions.
• Solid DevOps experience, including CI/CD, Docker, automated testing, and deployment automation.
• Hands-on experience with AWS services (networking, IAM, S3, Kinesis, Lambda, SNS).
• Familiarity with infrastructure as code using Terraform, CloudFormation, or AWS CDK.
• Ability to design and explain scalable, reliable, low-latency architectures.
• Experience collaborating across engineering, data, and product teams.
• Experience conducting code reviews and mentorship.

Skills

Python

CI/CD

Distributed systems

Docker

AWS

Tools

Terraform

CloudFormation

AWS CDK

Kinesis

Lambda

S3

Job description

*24-month contract with potential to extend/convert*

Optomi, in partnership with a premier client, is seeking a hands‑on Senior DevOps Engineer with deep expertise in cloud‑native development, DevOps, and software engineering. In this hands‑on technical leadership role, you’ll design and deliver scalable, high‑performance systems and infrastructure. You’ll work with engineering, data, and product teams to solve complex challenges in distributed systems, data management, and performance at scale.

You’ll write efficient, well‑documented, production‑quality code; shape robust architectural solutions; participate in code reviews; and mentor peers while staying current with modern cloud and software engineering practices.

Key Qualifications:

• 10+ years of professional software development experience across multiple technical domains.
• Advanced, hands‑on Python experience building backend services, cloud systems, or infrastructure tooling.
• Strong coding fundamentals, including choosing appropriate data structures and algorithms, reasoning about time and space complexity, and writing clear, maintainable, tested code.
• Experience designing, implementing, and operating distributed systems and data management solutions.
• Solid DevOps experience, including CI/CD, Docker, automated testing, and deployment automation.
• Hands‑on experience designing and implementing solutions with AWS services, particularly networking, IAM, S3, Kinesis, Lambda, and SNS.
• Familiarity with infrastructure as code using Terraform, CloudFormation, or AWS CDK.
• Ability to design and explain scalable, reliable, low‑latency architectures.
• Experience collaborating across engineering, data, and product teams.
• Experience conducting code reviews and providing technical mentorship.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Proficiency in a statically typed language such as TypeScript or Java.
• Knowledge of data architecture trade-offs, including SQL and NoSQL, partitioning strategies, and data warehouses.
• Experience with low-level software design, including data structures and code organization.
• Interest in modern cloud engineering and data systems practices.
• Passion for building reusable components and identifying platform‑level improvements.