DevOps Engineer

Description

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.

Requirements

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!

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