Lead DevOps Engineer (contract)

Title:Lead DevOps Engineer

Location: Columbus, OH

Alternative Location: Charlotte, NC / Irving, TX

Duration: 12 months

Work Engagement: W2

Work Schedule: Hybrid 3 days in office/2 days remote

Benefits on offer for this contract position: Health Insurance, Life insurance, 401K and Voluntary Benefits

Summary

In this contingent resource assignment, you may: Consult on complex initiatives with broad impact and large-scale planning for Software Engineering. Review and analyze complex multi-faceted, larger scale or longer-term Software Engineering challenges that require in-depth evaluation of multiple factors including intangibles or unprecedented factors.

Contribute to the resolution of complex and multi-faceted situations requiring solid understanding of the function, policies, procedures, and compliance requirements that meet deliverables. Strategically collaborate and consult with client personnel.

Required Qualifications: Software Engineering experience, or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work or consulting experience, training, military experience, education.

Key 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.
• eveloped 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.

Key Requirements

• Applicants must be authorized to work for ANY employer in the U.S. This position is not eligible for visa sponsorship.
• Experience in:

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

• Nice to Have:

Automation frameworks (Ansible/Terraform PFE)

AI agentic frameworks

Kubernetes certification

Devops certification

Bachelor’s in Engineering/Compsci