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DevOps Engineer
📍 Location: Destin, Florida, United States (Onsite | Hybrid)
🏢 Industry: Staffing and Recruiting
💼 Work Setting: Hybrid
Are you passionate about automating infrastructure, optimizing deployment processes, and building reliable cloud-based platforms?
We are seeking an experienced DevOps Engineer to join a dynamic technology team focused on enhancing infrastructure reliability, deployment efficiency, and operational excellence. This role offers the opportunity to work at the intersection of software development and IT operations, driving automation, scalability, security, and continuous improvement across modern cloud environments.
Key Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and maintain robust CI/CD pipelines to streamline software delivery and deployment processes.
- Implement and manage Infrastructure as Code (IaC) solutions to provision, configure, and maintain cloud infrastructure in an automated and scalable manner.
- Deploy, manage, and optimize containerized applications using modern containerization and orchestration technologies.
- Build and enhance monitoring, logging, alerting, and observability frameworks to ensure system health, performance, and availability.
- Integrate security best practices, vulnerability management, and compliance controls throughout the software development lifecycle.
- Support site reliability initiatives by troubleshooting production issues, participating in incident response activities, and conducting root cause analysis.
- Collaborate closely with development, engineering, and operations teams to improve system scalability, automation, and platform stability.
- Develop and maintain technical documentation, operational procedures, and best practice guidelines.
Required Qualifications
Education & Experience
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent hands-on experience.
- Minimum of 3 years of experience in DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), Cloud Infrastructure, or a related role.
Technical Skills
- Strong experience working with major cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
- Proficiency with Infrastructure as Code tools, including Terraform, CloudFormation, Ansible, or similar technologies.
- Hands-on experience with Docker, Kubernetes, and container orchestration environments.
- Strong understanding of CI/CD platforms such as GitHub Actions, GitLab CI/CD, Jenkins, Azure DevOps, or comparable tools.
- Proficiency in scripting and automation using Bash, Python, Go, or similar languages.
- Solid understanding of networking concepts, including virtual networks, DNS, load balancing, firewalls, and SSL/TLS security.
- Experience implementing monitoring and observability solutions using industry-standard tools.
Soft Skills
- Strong analytical and troubleshooting abilities with a proactive approach to problem solving.
- Ability to perform effectively in fast-paced operational environments while maintaining attention to detail.
- Excellent collaboration and communication skills with the ability to work across multiple teams and stakeholders.
- Strong documentation and technical writing capabilities.
Preferred Qualifications
- Industry certifications related to cloud platforms, DevOps practices, Kubernetes, or Infrastructure as Code.
- Experience supporting and optimizing large-scale database environments.
- Familiarity with serverless computing architectures and microservices-based applications.
- Understanding of modern software delivery, reliability engineering, and cloud-native design principles