DevOps Engineer

Robert Half is actively partnering with an Austin-based client to identify a DevOps Engineer (contract). In this role, you will focus on building scalable Kubernetes environments, improving CI/CD processes, strengthening cloud security, and enabling production-ready machine learning operations (MLOps). This role is hybrid in Austin, Tx.

Key Responsibilities:

• Design, deploy, and maintain cloud infrastructure using Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) frameworks and automation best practices.
• Build, manage, and optimize Kubernetes environments, ensuring reliability, scalability, security, and operational efficiency.
• Develop and maintain deployment pipelines supporting both application and machine learning workloads.
• Collaborate with engineering and data teams to operationalize ML models and AI-driven services in production environments.
• Implement and enhance CI/CD pipelines, release automation, and deployment standards across multiple environments.
• Establish platform standards, reusable tooling, and engineering best practices to improve consistency and operational maturity.
• Integrate security controls, automated testing, dependency validation, and policy enforcement into delivery pipelines.
• Improve observability through centralized logging, monitoring, tracing, alerting, dashboards, and operational runbooks.
• Partner with cross-functional teams to increase application reliability, performance, resiliency, and recovery capabilities.
• Support modern software delivery practices, including automated quality controls, secure release management, and developer enablement initiatives.
• Create self-service tooling, templates, automation frameworks, and documentation that improve the overall developer experience.
• Participate in incident response, root cause analysis, and continuous improvement efforts.
• Drive automation initiatives that reduce manual effort and increase operational reliability.
• Work closely with infrastructure, security, engineering, and data teams to support enterprise-scale cloud platforms and services.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent professional experience.
• 5+ years of professional experience in DevOps, SRE, Platform Engineering, or Cloud Operations.
• Strong hands-on experience with AWS or another major public cloud platform.
• Experience with Infrastructure-as-Code tools such as Terraform, AWS CDK, CloudFormation, or similar technologies.
• Experience designing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions, GitLab CI/CD, Azure DevOps, Jenkins, or comparable platforms.
• Strong production experience with Kubernetes, MLOps, or a combination of both.
• Experience deploying, monitoring, troubleshooting, and scaling containerized applications.
• Working knowledge of observability platforms, monitoring frameworks, and production operations.
• Familiarity with cloud security best practices, secrets management, access controls, and secure deployment processes.
• Strong collaboration and communication skills with technical and business stakeholders.
• Automation-first mindset with strong documentation and process improvement practices.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience supporting both Kubernetes platform engineering and machine learning operations.
• Experience with managed Kubernetes services such as Amazon EKS or equivalent cloud-native offerings.
• Background supporting cloud modernization, platform transformation, or migration initiatives.
• Experience implementing policy-as-code, security automation, governance controls, and compliance-focused engineering practices.
• Exposure to AI-enabled software development workflows and modern engineering productivity tools.
• Experience building internal developer platforms, shared services, golden-path architectures, or self-service engineering solutions.

Contract Benefit Offerings:

• Healthcare (medical, dental, and vision plans)
• 401(k) and retirement plans
• Commuter benefits
• Employee and vendor discounts
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• And many more!