DevOps Engineer

Title: DevOps Engineer
Location: Denver, CO (On-site)
Duration: 3 months (possibility of extension)
Implementation Partner: Infosys
End Client: To be disclosed
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We are looking for a skilled DevOps Engineer with strong experience in AWS, CI/CD pipelines, GitLab, and Datadog. The ideal candidate will design, automate, and optimize cloud infrastructure and deployment workflows to support high-availability, scalable applications.

Experience range: 8 to 14Yrs

Key Responsibilities

• Build and maintain AWS-based infrastructure (EC2, VPC, IAM, S3, ECS/EKS, Lambda).
• Develop and manage CI/CD pipelines using GitLab.
• Implement monitoring, alerting, and dashboards using Datadog.
• Automate infrastructure provisioning with IaC tools (Terraform/CloudFormation).
• Improve deployment reliability, performance, and security across environments.
• Collaborate with development teams on release processes and environment stability.
• Automate operational tasks using Ansible and custom playbooks.
• Troubleshoot issues across microservices, REST APIs, webservices, and 3rd-party integrations.
• Work with SQL/MariaDB SQL for debugging, validating data, and resolving application-level failures.
• Leverage AWS CloudWatch and AWS dashboards for latency, performance, and error monitoring.
• Monitor and troubleshoot Kubernetes/EKS workloads.
• Use APM tools (Datadog APM, service maps, traces) for end-to-end traceability, performance, and latency issues
• Support microservice-based architecture and related functional behavior.
• Understanding on the application behavior end-to-end, including service interactions and data flow.

Required Skills

• Strong hands-on experience with AWS services.
• Proficiency in GitLab CI/CD.
• Expertise with Datadog monitoring & observability.
• Solid understanding of containers (Docker/Kubernetes).
• Knowledge of scripting (Python, Bash).
• Familiarity with Infrastructure as Code practices.
• Strong SQL/MariaDB SQL.
• Experience supporting microservices and distributed applications.
• Ability to handle triage logs, metrics, traces, and DB checks.
• Hands-on experience with Ansible automation.
• Working knowledge of APM tools, CloudWatch, and performance dashboards.