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Senior DevOps Engineer

Aurora, CO

$70/hr

We need a senior DevOps and Observability Engineer, on contract. The role covers infrastructure automation, CI/CD pipelines, cloud operations, and observability. You own both sides: build-and-deploy ...

Booz Allen Hamilton

DevOps Engineer, Senior

Aurora, CO · On-site

$77K - $176K/yr

DevOps Engineer, Senior The Opportunity: We're seeking a DevOps Engineer who is motivated by ... as well as contract-specific affordability and organizational requirements. The projected ...

Northstrat

Cloud/DevOps Engineer

Aurora, CO

$53.50 - $73.50/hr

Northstrat is seeking an experienced and driven Cloud/DevOps Engineer to join our dynamic team. The ... and contract wage rates, relevant prior work experience, specific skills and competencies ...

Northstrat

Cloud/DevOps Engineer

Aurora, CO · On-site

$53.50 - $73.50/hr

Northstrat is seeking an experienced and driven Cloud/DevOps Engineer to join our dynamic team. The ... and contract wage rates, relevant prior work experience, specific skills and competencies ...

IT Labs

Senior DevOps Engineer

Denver, CO · Remote

$133K - $170K/yr

At IT Labs, we are looking for a hands-on Senior DevOps Engineer to support one of the most ... Contract or B2B arrangement Our values We are a company that seeks the best for both our employees ...

Cymertek

DevOps Systems Administrator

Aurora, CO · On-site

DevOps Systems Administrator LOCATION Aurora, CO 80014 CLEARANCE TS/SCI Full Poly (Please note this ... Most contracts allow additional experience (4-5 years) in lieu of a Bachelor's Degree. Some ...

Cymertek

DevOps Systems Administrator

Aurora, CO · On-site

DevOps Systems Administrator LOCATION Aurora, CO 80014 CLEARANCE TS/SCI Full Poly (Please note this ... Most contracts allow additional experience (4-5 years) in lieu of a Bachelor's Degree. Some ...

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As of Jul 14, 2026, the average hourly pay for contract developer operations in Highlands Ranch, CO is $56.02, according to ZipRecruiter salary data. Most workers in this role earn between $50.48 and $66.88 per hour, depending on experience, location, and employer.

What is the difference between Contract Developer Operations vs Contract Software Developer?

AspectContract Developer OperationsContract Software Developer
Primary FocusManaging deployment, automation, and infrastructure for software systemsWriting, testing, and maintaining application code
Skills & CertificationsDevOps tools, cloud platforms, scripting, CI/CD pipelinesProgramming languages, software development frameworks, version control
Work EnvironmentCollaborates with development and IT teams, often in cloud or enterprise settingsWorks primarily on coding and application development tasks
Industry UsageCommon in tech, SaaS, and enterprise IT sectorsWidespread across software, web, and app development industries

Contract Developer Operations professionals focus on deployment, automation, and infrastructure management, ensuring software systems run smoothly. In contrast, Contract Software Developers primarily concentrate on coding and developing applications. Both roles often collaborate but serve different aspects of the software lifecycle.

What cities near Highlands Ranch, CO are hiring for Contract Developer Operations jobs? Cities near Highlands Ranch, CO with the most Contract Developer Operations job openings:
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Senior DevOps Engineer

Senior DevOps Engineer

Placed

Aurora, CO

$70/hr

Full-time

Posted 8 days ago

Job description

We need a senior DevOps and Observability Engineer, on contract. The role covers

infrastructure automation, CI/CD pipelines, cloud operations, and observability. You own both sides: build-and-deploy and the observability stack.

On-call rotation is part of the job, shared across the team.

Background check required.


Required Skills

• Infrastructure as Code and configuration management: Terraform for infrastructure,

Ansible for application deployment and config

• Scripting: Bash, Python, PowerShell

• CI/CD pipelines: GitHub Actions, including integration of SAST, DAST, secret

scanning, and dependency auditing without turning every deploy into a compliance

obstacle course

• Cloud platforms: AWS and/or Azure

• Cloud cost management: Infracost with pre-commit hooks, AWS Cost Explorer, AWS

Budgets, Azure Cost Management + Billing, Azure Budgets

• Identity and access management: IAM across cloud platforms; least privilege in

practice, not just on paper

• Networking fundamentals: VNETs, VPCs, subnets, routing, and enough

troubleshooting instinct to isolate a network problem without immediately filing a

ticket

• Log management: Splunk and/or ELK Stack (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana)

• Observability and alerting: LogicMonitor

• Containerization: Docker, including writing efficient Dockerfiles and keeping images

lean; you know why bloated images are a problem and you don’t copy the internet’s

bad habits

• Version control: Git/GitHub

What You Bring

• 5 to 8 years in DevOps or platform engineering

• You build observability pipelines and alerting frameworks from scratch

• Cross-platform experience (Linux and Windows); Linux-first thinking is a plus

• You build tools, not workarounds

• You don’t need hand-holding to ship

• You’ve been on-call long enough to know the difference between an alert that

matters and one that wakes everyone up for nothing. When an incident hits, you

lead the call. Your post-mortems result in actual changes, not a doc nobody reads.

• You can connect SLO/SLA metrics to outcomes the business actually cares about

Nice to Have

• Kubernetes cluster administration

• Prometheus and/or Grafana (dashboard design and metrics pipelines)

• LogicMonitor Synthetics or similar uptime and synthetic