Devops Engineer

Role

Devops Engineer

Location

Columbus, Ohio

Employment Type

Contract - Day 1 Onsite

Primary Skills

Jenkins, Kubernetes, Automation

Experience

10+ years

Job Description

CI/CD Pipelines & Release Engineering

• 10+ years of experience designing, building, and maintaining CI/CD pipelines.
• Hands-on experience with pipeline orchestration tools (e.g., Spinnaker, Jenkins, or similar).
• Strong understanding of DevOps, GitOps concepts, and Release Engineering practices.
• Familiarity with the Java ecosystem (Maven, Gradle, JARs/WARs) sufficient to support deployments.

Containerization & Orchestration

• 5+ years of experience deploying and scaling microservices in Kubernetes (including AWS EKS).
• Proficiency with Docker and containerization best practices.
• Infrastructure as Code experience (e.g., Terraform or similar).

Cloud & Infrastructure

• Hands-on experience with cloud deployments, primarily on AWS core services (IAM, ECR, S3, CloudWatch).
• High-level understanding of application infrastructure, system design, and platform architecture.

Programming & Scripting

• Proficiency in at least one programming language, with Go (Golang), Java strongly preferred for CLI tooling.
• Familiarity with Python is a plus.

Monitoring & Observability

• Experience with monitoring and ops analysis tools such as Splunk, Dynatrace, or Datadog.
• Ability to develop automation tools for alerting, toil reduction, and technical debt management.

Version Control & Collaboration

• Hands-on expertise with Git/Bitbucket workflows.
• Knowledge of Agile methodologies (Scrum and Kanban) and the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC).
• Experience contributing to Sprint Planning, Refinement, and backlog grooming sessions.

Leadership & Communication

• Demonstrated ability to lead a team of software engineers.
• Strong interpersonal, oral, and written communication skills.
• Ability to coordinate across development teams, architects, and business stakeholders.
• Experience troubleshooting incidents and contributing to post-mortem processes.

Preferred Qualifications, Capabilities & Skills

• Prior experience as an Engineering Lead or Technical Team Lead.
• GitOps tooling experience.
• Secrets management experience (AWS Secrets Manager).
• Service mesh experience (Istio).
• AWS and/or Kubernetes certifications.
• Familiarity with agentic coding concepts.