DevOps / Platform Engineer

Scion Staffing; Austin (TX); Hybrid; USD 97,000 - 138,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Impactful Projects

Modern Technology & AI Innovation

Collaborative & Flexible Environment

Competitive Compensation & Benefits

Job summary

Scion Staffing has been engaged to conduct a search for a DevOps / Platform Engineer in Austin, TX. This hybrid role focuses on building and modernizing AWS cloud infrastructure, Terraform IaC, and CI/CD automation for a new customer-facing platform.

The ideal candidate brings strong AWS/ Terraform expertise, container migrations, and experience with AI-assisted engineering tools, delivering secure, scalable production environments.

Qualifications

• Extensive hands-on AWS experience with ECS, EC2, Lambda, RDS, IAM, VPC networking.
• Advanced Terraform IaC development across multiple environments and Git workflows.
• Experience modernizing containerized workloads and migrating EC2 to ECS.
• Strong CI/CD build and release automation (GitHub Actions, Buddy.Works, Jenkins).
• Proven ability to design secure, scalable cloud infrastructure with observability and incident response.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and optimize AWS infrastructure across services (ECS, EC2, Lambda, RDS, S3, CloudFront).
• Develop and manage Terraform IaC across dev/test/prod environments.
• Lead modernization efforts migrating EC2 workloads to ECS/container platforms.
• Build and streamline CI/CD pipelines and automate Terraform deployments.
• Support cloud networking, security, and production reliability with monitoring and incident response.
• Contribute to documentation and collaborate with internal and external teams.

Skills

AWS

Terraform

CI/CD

GitHub Actions

Cloud security

Observability

AI tools

ECS

Tools

Docker

Buddy.Works

Jenkins

Job description

Scion Staffing has been engaged to conduct a search for a DevOps / Platform Engineer for an established, technology-driven company in the entertainment and hospitality industry that is investing in modernizing its digital platforms, customer-facing applications, and cloud infrastructure to enhance the overall guest experience. This is a 6+ month, hybrid opportunity based in Austin, TX (2 days / week onsite).

POSITION OVERVIEW

The DevOps / Platform Engineer will play a key role in building and modernizing AWS cloud infrastructure, improving deployment automation, and supporting the development of a new customer-facing application. This hands-on position will focus on Terraform infrastructure management, container migrations, CI/CD optimization, cloud networking, security, and observability while collaborating with internal engineering teams and external development partners. The ideal candidate brings strong AWS and Terraform expertise, demonstrated experience leveraging AI-assisted engineering tools, and the ability to independently own infrastructure initiatives while delivering secure, scalable, and reliable production environments.

PERKS

• Impactful Projects: Take ownership of cloud infrastructure modernization initiatives and contribute to the development and launch of a new customer-facing digital platform.
• Modern Technology & AI Innovation: Work extensively with AWS, Terraform, containerized environments, CI/CD automation, and AI-assisted engineering tools to improve infrastructure efficiency and reliability.
• Collaborative & Flexible Environment: Enjoy a hybrid schedule in Austin, TX, while collaborating with experienced engineers and external development partners on meaningful technical initiatives.
• Competitive Compensation & Benefits: W-2 contract opportunity with access to applicable benefits, and strong potential for contract extension.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Design, build, maintain, and optimize AWS cloud infrastructure , including ECS, EC2, Lambda, RDS, ECR, S3, CloudFront, IAM, VPC networking, and AWS WAF, supporting secure and reliable production applications.
• Develop, manage, and enhance Terraform Infrastructure as Code (IaC) , including separating development, testing, and production environments, creating new service stacks, managing GitHub pull request workflows, executing Terraform plan/apply processes, and resolving infrastructure drift.
• Lead infrastructure modernization efforts, including migrating EC2 workloads to ECS/containerized environments , improving scalability, deployment consistency, and operational efficiency.
• Build, maintain, and streamline CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions, Buddy.Works, or comparable technologies, including automating Terraform deployments, improving release processes, and reducing manual infrastructure tasks.
• Support cloud networking, security, and production reliability , including DNS, CDN/WAF configurations, custom security rules, rate limiting, Cloudflare Tunnels (cloudflared), Workers, security rules as code, bot and credential-stuffing mitigation, security hardening, and incident response using Cloudflare or comparable technologies.
• Implement and improve observability, monitoring, and troubleshooting using Honeycomb, Datadog, or comparable tools, while supporting production deployments, API services, PHP/Craft CMS application environments, and established production change-management processes.
• Independently drive infrastructure improvements, collaborate with internal engineering teams and external development partners, and maintain technical documentation while actively leveraging AI-assisted engineering tools to accelerate infrastructure development, Terraform automation, CI/CD improvements, troubleshooting, and problem-solving, ensuring AI-generated solutions are validated, secure, and aligned with engineering best practices.

QUALIFICATIONS

• Minimum 6 years of professional experience in DevOps, Platform Engineering, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), or Cloud Engineering.
• Strong hands-on AWS expertise , including provisioning, configuring, maintaining, securing, and troubleshooting production cloud infrastructure, with experience across services such as ECS, EC2, Lambda, RDS, IAM, VPC networking, and related AWS technologies.
• Advanced hands‑on Terraform experience , including developing and maintaining Infrastructure as Code, provisioning new infrastructure, managing multiple environments (development, testing, and production), implementing Git-based workflows, and automating infrastructure deployments.
• Experience with containerization and cloud infrastructure modernization , including Docker, AWS ECS, or comparable container technologies; experience migrating EC2 workloads to ECS is highly valued.
• Strong experience building, maintaining, and improving CI/CD pipelines , preferably using GitHub Actions or Buddy.Works; experience with comparable automation platforms, including Jenkins, will also be considered.
• Experience with cloud networking, application security, and production operations , including DNS, CDN, WAF, rate limiting, security hardening, bot mitigation, and incident response.
• Experience with Cloudflare, Akamai, Fastly, AWS CloudFront/WAF, or comparable technologies is acceptable.
• Experience with observability, monitoring, and production troubleshooting using Honeycomb, Datadog, or comparable tools, along with supporting application deployments, API services, and production change management.
• Demonstrated experience incorporating AI-assisted development and engineering tools into daily workflows to improve infrastructure automation, Terraform development, CI/CD processes, troubleshooting, documentation, and overall engineering productivity.
• Must be comfortable using AI responsibly, independently validating AI-generated solutions, exercising sound technical judgment, and collaborating effectively with engineering teams and external partners.
• AWS certifications are a plus.

COMPENSATION AND BENEFITS

• This is a 6+ month W-2 contract opportunity based in Austin, TX.
• Competitive compensation up to $85/hr W2 (DOE) along with access to applicable employee benefits through Scion Staffing.
• Hybrid schedule requiring approximately two days onsite per week, with additional in-person collaboration potentially beneficial during the initial onboarding period.
• There is potential for contract extension or possible conversion to a full-time position depending on performance, business needs, and future fiscal planning.
• Candidates should be comfortable with occasional after-hours or weekend production changes and potential on-call responsibilities as needed.

Scion Staffing, Inc. is an equal opportunity employer and service provider and does not discriminate based on race, religion, gender, gender identity, national origin, citizenship status, sexual orientation, disability, political affiliation or belief, or any other protected class.

We are committed to the principles of Equal Opportunity Employment and are dedicated to making employment decisions based on merit and value, for ourselves, our client companies, and the candidates we represent.

For opportunities located in a region that have enacted fair chance, arrest or conviction-based employment ordinances, Scion Staffing proactively follows the enacted guidance and considers for employment all qualified applications with arrest and conviction records. We engage in socially conscious business practices and believe that diverse, inclusive, and non-biased talent and recruitment processes are foundational to the success of Scion as well as every client organization with whom we partner.