Senior Cloud DevOps & Platform Engineer

SoTalent; Milwaukee (WI); On-site; USD 110,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

SoTalent is seeking an experienced DevOps Engineer in Milwaukee to design, implement, and optimize cloud-native infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, and automation frameworks. You will drive platform reliability, security, and efficiency across enterprise environments.

The role emphasizes containerization, IaC, automation, and collaboration with software engineering, security, and operations teams. A strong background in cloud platforms and DevOps practices is required.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or equivalent experience.
• 5+ years of professional IT experience.
• 3+ years of experience working with cloud computing platforms and cloud-native solutions.
• Strong experience with: DevOps Practices
• Infrastructure Automation
• Containerization Technologies
• Experience developing automation using modern scripting and programming languages.
• Hands-on experience with Infrastructure-as-Code frameworks.
• Experience supporting both Linux and Windows environments.

Responsibilities

• Design, deploy, and maintain scalable cloud-based infrastructure solutions.
• Support cloud-native application deployments and platform modernization initiatives.
• Optimize cloud environments for performance, security, scalability, and cost efficiency.
• Implement and maintain highly available and resilient infrastructure architectures.
• Design, build, and maintain Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) pipelines.
• Automate infrastructure provisioning, deployment, testing, and operational processes.
• Improve software delivery speed, quality, and reliability through DevOps best practices.
• Support GitOps and automated deployment strategies across environments.
• Develop and manage infrastructure using Infrastructure-as-Code frameworks.
• Create repeatable, version-controlled infrastructure deployments.
• Standardize infrastructure provisioning and configuration management processes.
• Promote automation-first practices across engineering teams.
• Deploy and manage containerized applications in enterprise environments.
• Support container orchestration platforms and cloud-native workloads.
• Implement scalable deployment strategies and workload management solutions.
• Optimize container performance, security, and operational stability.
• Implement monitoring, logging, alerting, and observability solutions.
• Analyze system performance and proactively identify improvement opportunities.
• Troubleshoot infrastructure, networking, and application issues.
• Ensure platform reliability and service availability through preventive maintenance and continuous optimization.
• Implement secure infrastructure and deployment practices.
• Support vulnerability management, authentication, authorization, and access control initiatives.
• Maintain compliance with organizational security standards and governance requirements.
• Apply security best practices throughout the software development lifecycle.
• Develop scripts, tools, and automation capabilities to improve operational efficiency.
• Review, validate, and improve code quality through engineering best practices.
• Support testing, debugging, and deployment activities.
• Ensure solutions are maintainable, reusable, and scalable.
• Mentor junior engineers and promote knowledge sharing across teams.
• Participate in architecture discussions and technical planning activities.
• Collaborate with development, security, infrastructure, and business teams.
• Contribute to engineering standards, best practices, and continuous improvement initiatives.

Skills

DevOps Practices

Infrastructure Automation

Containerization Technologies

Automation scripting

Infrastructure as Code

Linux/Windows environments

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science / IT / Engineering or equivalent

Tools

Docker

Terraform

CloudFormation

Jenkins

Git-based CI/CD platforms

Job description

SoTalent is seeking an experienced DevOps Engineer in Milwaukee to design, implement, and optimize cloud-native infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, and automation frameworks. You will drive platform reliability, security, and efficiency across enterprise environments.

The role emphasizes containerization, IaC, automation, and collaboration with software engineering, security, and operations teams. A strong background in cloud platforms and DevOps practices is required.