DevOps Platform Engineer

DevOps Platform Engineer

Hybrid (Eden Prarie, MN or Basking Ridge, NJ)

Contract

Estimated Rate: $55/hr-65/hr

Role Overview:

We are building an enterprise AI platform designed to enable scalable, governed delivery of AI-powered solutions. This platform provides standardized capabilities for orchestration, large language model (LLM) integration, evaluation, observability, and lifecycle management, all within a cloud-based environment.

We are seeking a hands-on DevOps Platform Engineer to own and manage the full cloud infrastructure layer supporting this platform. This role will act as the primary point of contact for infrastructure-related needs, including deployments, scaling, environment setup, and security enforcement.

Key Responsibilities:

Cloud Infrastructure Ownership

• Manage containerized and serverless cloud services, including Kubernetes clusters, application services, networking, IAM, secrets, and storage
• Provision and operate data infrastructure (relational databases, caching layers, object storage, and messaging systems)
• Design and manage networking components such as VPCs, load balancers, and firewall rules
• Support AI-related infrastructure such as model-serving environments, event-driven systems, and compute scaling

CI/CD Pipeline Development

• Design and implement multi-stage CI/CD pipelines (build, test, security scan, deploy, verify)
• Support deployment strategies such as rolling updates, canary, and blue/green deployments
• Integrate policy enforcement and security checks into pipelines
• Manage container lifecycle and artifact repositories across environments

Infrastructure as Code

• Define and manage all infrastructure using Terraform (or similar IaC tools)
• Build reusable modules to enable rapid environment and service provisioning
• Ensure all changes are version-controlled and follow proper review and validation processes

Observability & Reliability

• Build and maintain monitoring and observability stacks (metrics, logging, tracing, alerting)
• Define and track platform reliability metrics (availability, latency, deployment success)
• Monitor and report engineering performance metrics (e.g., deployment frequency, failure rates, recovery times)
• Lead incident response and root cause analysis for infrastructure issues

Security & Governance

• Enforce identity and access management best practices (least privilege, service identities)
• Manage secrets, encryption, and network-level security controls
• Implement policy enforcement across infrastructure and deployment workflows
• Support compliance requirements and audit readiness

Cost Optimization

• Monitor and optimize cloud spend across services and environments
• Implement autoscaling, cost controls, and usage optimization strategies
• Provide visibility into cost drivers and recommend improvements

Required Experience:

Cloud & Infrastructure

• Deep hands-on experience managing cloud platforms (GCP preferred)
• Strong experience with Kubernetes, containerization, and serverless services
• Experience with networking, IAM, storage, and cloud-native security controls

DevOps & Tooling

• Terraform (or similar IaC tools) for infrastructure automation
• CI/CD pipeline development (GitHub Actions, Cloud Build, etc.)
• Docker/container lifecycle management

Observability & Security

• Experience with monitoring tools (Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry)
• Policy enforcement tools (e.g., OPA)
• Understanding of identity frameworks and secure service-to-service communication

Core Experience

• 5 years in DevOps, SRE, or Platform Engineering
• Proven ownership of production cloud infrastructure
• Experience supporting distributed systems at scale

Nice to Have:

• Multi-cloud experience (AWS, etc.)
• Messaging/streaming systems (Kafka, Pub/Sub)
• Experience supporting AI/ML infrastructure workloads
• Familiarity with GitOps, service mesh, or advanced deployment patterns
• Exposure to regulated environments (HIPAA, SOC 2, etc.)

ABOUT EIGHT ELEVEN:

Eight Eleven Group provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex, citizenship, disability, genetic information, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, amnesty or status as a covered veteran in accordance with applicable federal, state, and local laws.

Pay Disclaimer:

The pay range for this job level is a general guideline only and not a guarantee of compensation or salary. Additional factors considered in extending an offer include (but are not limited to) responsibilities of the job, education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity, alignment with market data, applicable bargaining agreement (if any), or other law.