Senior AWS DevOps Engineer — Contract to Hire

Lorien; Houston (TX); On-site; USD 125,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Lorien in Houston, TX is seeking a W2-only AWS DevOps Engineer for a contract-to-hire role. Local candidates only. You will drive end-to-end infrastructure, deployment pipelines, and automation across cloud, containerization, and IaC.

Ideal candidates have 8+ years in DevOps, hands-on AWS/Azure/GCP, ECS, Kubernetes, Terraform, Ansible, and CI/CD toolchains, with a track record of scalable, secure deployments and a strong scripting background.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in DevOps or related roles.
• Proven track record of implementing DevOps practices in complex environments.
• Experience with scalable, secure, and reliable deployments.
• Cloud platforms: AWS/Azure/GCP with hands-on ECS, API Gateway, ActiveMQ, EC2, S3, RDS, Lambda and CloudFormation.
• CI/CD: Jenkins, GitLab CI, CircleCI, TeamCity, Harness, GitHub Actions.
• IaC: Terraform, Ansible, AWS CloudFormation.
• Containerization: Docker and Kubernetes.
• Scripting: Python, Bash, or PowerShell.
• Monitoring: DynaTrace, Prometheus, Grafana, ELK or Splunk.

Skills

DevOps experience

Deployment expertise

Security & reliability

CI/CD mindset

Automation scripting

Tools

AWS

Azure

GCP

ECS

API Gateway

ActiveMQ

EC2

S3

RDS

Lambda

CloudFormation

Docker

Kubernetes

Terraform

Ansible

Jenkins

GitLab CI

CircleCI

TeamCity

Harness

GitHub Actions

Job description

Lorien in Houston, TX is seeking a W2-only AWS DevOps Engineer for a contract-to-hire role. Local candidates only. You will drive end-to-end infrastructure, deployment pipelines, and automation across cloud, containerization, and IaC.

Ideal candidates have 8+ years in DevOps, hands-on AWS/Azure/GCP, ECS, Kubernetes, Terraform, Ansible, and CI/CD toolchains, with a track record of scalable, secure deployments and a strong scripting background.