Job Title: Senior DevOps Engineer (Azure DevOps / AWS) Location: 100% Remote Duration: 3-6 Month Contract Type: Contract Consulting Engagement Schedule: 40 Hours Weekly, Monday- Friday
Overview
We are seeking a hands-on Senior DevOps Engineer to support a large-scale application modernization and cloud transformation initiative. This consultant will play a key role in enhancing CI/CD capabilities, improving deployment automation, and supporting the migration of legacy applications to modern cloud-based architectures. The ideal candidate will have deep experience with Azure DevOps, CI/CD pipeline development, AWS cloud technologies, and application modernization efforts. This is a highly technical, engineering-focused role where you'll be expected to contribute immediately within an established DevOps environment while helping drive several strategic modernization initiatives forward.
Responsibilities:
- Design, build, enhance, and maintain Azure DevOps CI/CD pipelines
- Improve deployment automation and release management processes
- Develop new development, testing, and production deployment pipelines
- Support application modernization and cloud transformation initiatives
- Help standardize deployment practices across multiple teams and environments
- Automate build, release, and deployment workflows
- Collaborate with software engineers, architects, and business stakeholders
- Support deployments within AWS environments, including EC2 and serverless workloads
- Assist with Infrastructure as Code initiatives and overall platform maturity
- Contribute to DevOps best practices, governance, and operational reliability
- Document processes and collaborate within Jira and Confluence environments
Required Qualifications
- 5+ years of DevOps, Platform Engineering, or Cloud Engineering experience
- Strong hands-on experience with Azure DevOps administration and pipeline development
- Experience designing and building CI/CD pipelines from the ground up
- AWS experience, including deployment and support of cloud-hosted applications
- Experience with CI/CD automation, release management, and deployment orchestration
- Experience supporting software development teams through modernization initiatives
- Familiarity with Jira and Confluence
- Strong troubleshooting, communication, and collaboration skills
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with AWS services such as EC2, Lambda, and CloudFormation
- Experience supporting application modernization or cloud migration projects
- Infrastructure as Code experience (CloudFormation, Terraform, or similar tools)
- Experience supporting .NET application deployments
- Experience building deployment standards and repeatable release processes
- Experience working in Agile development environments
Nice-to-Have Skills
- Amazon Redshift migration or data platform modernization experience
- GitHub Enterprise and GitHub Actions experience
- GitHub Copilot or AI-assisted development tools exposure
- Experience supporting cloud-native application architectures
- Experience working with legacy system modernization initiatives