Lead DevOps Engineer

A client of Innova Solutions is immediately hiring for a Lead DevOps Engineer:
Position type: Contract (12+ months)
Location: Columbus, OH, Charlotte, NC, Irving, TX
Schedule: Hybrid (3 days onsite, 2 days remote in a week)


As a Lead DevOps Engineer, you will work as a Platform Engineer to design, build, and operate scalable, cloud native platforms that enable secure and efficient application delivery. This role focuses on Kubernetes and OpenShift platforms, GitOps driven CI/CD workflows, and automation across OCP, Azure and GCP. The ideal candidate is passionate about developer enablement, infrastructure as code, and building resilient, self-service platforms using modern automation and cloud technologies.
Responsibilities:

• Hands on DevOps and platform engineering expert driving DevOps transformation, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), and GitOps based delivery models.
• Designed and enabled end to end DevOps workflows, integrating infrastructure automation with CI/CD pipelines (GitOps / GitHub Actions) to support microservices deployment at scale.
• Automated microservices deployments across Kubernetes and OCP environments, achieving 100% deployment automation using Harness, reducing manual errors, and significantly improving release speed and reliability.
• Implemented GitOps workflows using declarative configurations and JSON/YAML based pipelines, ensuring consistency, repeatability, and auditability across environments.
• Enabled cloud native platform delivery across Azure and GCP, aligning infrastructure, application deployment, and security controls through code.
• Embedded DevSecOps practices, observability, and pipeline instrumentation to improve visibility into pipeline performance, failures, and operational trends, accelerating troubleshooting and reducing MTTR.
• Developed automation and tooling using Python, integrating with CI/CD, infrastructure provisioning, and deployment workflows.
• Established centralized version tracking and release visibility, improving governance, traceability, and consistency across global data centers and cloud platforms.
• Strong collaborator focused on developer enablement, self-service platforms, and continuous delivery excellence through pragmatic, production grade engineering.

Required Skills:

• GitHub Actions
• Java builds experience (preferably Maven/Gradle)
• Deployment tool experience (preferably Harness)
• Python builds/CICD (Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery/Deployment)
• Kubernetes/OCP
• Should have worked in a large scale regulated industry and exposed to DevOps in those orgs.
• Need to be aware of governance controls, audits, etc.

Qualified candidates should APPLY NOW for immediate consideration!
This position is only open to applicants who can be engaged on a W-2 basis.
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We are currently interviewing to fill this and other similar positions. If this role is not a fit for you, we do offer a referral bonus program for referrals that we successfully place with our clients, subject to program guidelines. ASK ME HOW.
Thank you!


Vansha Malik
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PAY RANGE AND BENEFITS:
Pay Range*: Between $64 - $69 per hour
*Pay range offered to a successful candidate will be based on several factors, including the candidate's education, work experience, work location, specific job duties, certifications, etc.

Benefits: Innova Solutions offers benefits( based on eligibility) that include the following: Medical & pharmacy coverage, Dental/vision insurance, 401(k), Health saving account (HSA) and Flexible spending account (FSA), Life Insurance, Pet Insurance, Short term and Long term Disability, Accident & Critical illness coverage, Pre-paid legal & ID theft protection, Sick time, and other types of paid leaves (as required by law), Employee Assistance Program (EAP).


ABOUT INNOVA SOLUTIONS: Founded in 1998 and headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, Innova Solutions employs approximately 50,000 professionals worldwide and reports an annual revenue approaching $3 Billion. Through our global delivery centers across North America, Asia, and Europe, we deliver strategic technology and business transformation solutions to our clients, enabling them to operate as leaders within their fields.

Recent Recognitions:

• Named One of America's Best Employers for New Grads by Forbes (2024
• Named One of the Best Companies to Work for by U.S. News & World Report (Private Companies List, 2024-2025)
• One of the Largest IT Staffing Firms in the US - Ranked #3 by Staffing Industry Analysts (SIA, 2024)
• One of the Largest Staffing Firms in the US - Ranked #13 by Staffing Industry Analysts (SIA, 2024; includes Innova Solutions, Volt, & HireGenics)
• Named One of the Top Ten Private Companies in Atlanta by the Atlanta Business Chronicle (2023)
• One of the Largest Certified Minority Business Enterprises (MBEs) in the United States (NMSDC, 2024)
• AWS Advanced Tier Services Partner with 100+ certifications

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