Role: Senior DevOps Engineer
Location: Franklin, TN (Hybrid); Locals Only
Duration: 6-Month Contract-to-Hire
We are looking for a Senior DevOps Engineer with strong experience in CI/CD automation, AWS cloud, and Infrastructure as Code to support a large-scale DevOps modernization initiative. This is a hands-on engineering role focused on building automated deployment pipelines, eliminating manual release processes, and helping development teams adopt modern DevOps practices.
Required Skills:
- 5+ years of DevOps or Platform Engineering experience.
- Strong hands-on experience with GitLab CI/CD and deployment pipeline automation.
- Experience with AWS services such as ECS/Fargate, Lambda, API Gateway, IAM, ECR, S3, and CloudFront.
- Infrastructure as Code using Pulumi (preferred), or Terraform, AWS CDK, or CloudFormation.
- Experience with Git, branching strategies, merge requests, automated testing, deployments, and rollback processes.
- Strong scripting/automation skills (Bash, Python, or similar).
- Experience working with development teams to improve CI/CD adoption and automate software delivery.
Preferred Skills:
- Experience in enterprise DevOps transformation or platform modernization.
- Knowledge of secure cloud deployments, IAM, OIDC, secrets management, and least-privilege access.
- Exposure to AI-assisted development tools and automation.
- Strong communication skills and a continuous improvement mindset.