Senior DevOps Engineer (Azure DevOps / AWS) - Fully Remote

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