Senior DevOps Engineer (Contractor)

Overview

Senior DevOps Engineer contract role focused on infrastructure strategy, cloud architecture and operations across high-impact environments, shaping DevOps practices across multiple portfolio companies. Hands-on and high-visibility.

What you'll do

• Collaborate across global teams and help shape DevOps practices spanning multiple portfolio companies.
• Balance cloud architecture and hands-on execution.
• Document work clearly and run knowledge transfer/handoff sessions.
• Deliver iteratively in an Agile model.

What you'll need

• 7+ years of hands-on production AWS infrastructure experience, including building environments from scratch and maintaining existing setups.
• Strong knowledge of AWS networking: VPC, subnets, NAT/Internet Gateways, routing, Security Groups, NACLs.
• Experience with AWS security services: IAM, KMS, Secrets Manager, CloudTrail, Config, GuardDuty, Security Hub.
• Experience provisioning and managing RDS (MSSQL, PostgreSQL etc).
• Experience with EC2, ALB, ACM, Route 53, and AWS WAF.
• Windows Server administration skills, including AD, IIS configuration, licensing, PowerShell scripting, and basic OS hardening.
• Comfortable installing and configuring third-party Windows-based software and troubleshooting service/connectivity issues.
• Familiarity with .NET and Python runtime environments on Windows.
• Experience with CloudWatch or similar monitoring/alerting setup.
• Strong documentation habits and the ability to run a clear knowledge transfer/handoff session.
• Ability to work in an Agile, iterative delivery model.
• Knowledge and production experience of CI/CD and IaC with Terraform.

Nice to have

• Experience with Datadog, Grafana, or Akamai CDN.
• Familiarity with Azure, CloudFormation, Ansible, Jenkins, or Mux Enterprise.
• Proficiency in Python or Go for scripting and automation.
• Experience with GitHub Actions, Helm, or advanced EKS scaling.
• Previous work in consulting or multi-client environments.

Details

• Contract duration: 3-6 months.
• Hours: +2 hours US overlap.
• 100% remote work across India.