Lead Ops Engineer

Immediate need for a talented Lead Ops Engineer. This is a 12 Months Contract opportunity with long-term potential and is located in Plano, TX (Onsite). Please review the job description below and contact me ASAP if you are interested.

Job ID:25-71042

Pay Range: $50 - $55/hour.  Employee benefits include, but are not limited to, health insurance (medical, dental, vision), 401(k) plan, and paid sick leave (depending on work location).
 
Key Responsibilities: 

• Collaborate directly with business end users to understand operational issues, troubleshoot problems, and implement long-term solutions.
• Design, implement, and maintain scalable cloud infrastructure using AWS services and Terraform.
• Manage and optimize Databricks and SageMaker environments for performance, reliability, and cost efficiency.
• Develop and enforce security policies (IAM, resource access policies) to ensure compliance and secure operations.
• Implement and maintain Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform.
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions for automated deployments.
• Create automation scripts for deployment, monitoring, and reporting processes.
• Monitor system performance and reliability; handle incident response and root cause analysis.

Key Requirements and Technology Experience:

• Skills-[“Lead”, “DevOps”, “AWS Sagemaker”]. 
• 5 years of experience in DevOps, Cloud Operations, or Infrastructure Engineering roles.
• Strong AWS expertise, including VPC, S3, IAM, EC2, ECS, and SageMaker.
• Hands-on experience with Databricks and Apache Spark in production environments.
• Proficient in writing Terraform modules and managing infrastructure via Infrastructure as Code (IaC).
• Strong experience with CI/CD pipelines and tools such as GitHub Actions.
• Proven ability to write, manage, and enforce security and IAM policies.
• Excellent problem-solving skills and proactive approach to issue resolution.
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills; ability to work directly with non-technical users.
• AWS Certifications (e.g., DevOps Engineer, Solutions Architect).
• Exposure to containerization and orchestration tools (Docker, Kubernetes).
• Familiarity with data science or machine learning workflows.
• Proficient in scripting languages (Unix, Python, Bash).

Our client is a leading IT Industry and we are currently interviewing to fill this and other similar contract positions. If you are interested in this position, please apply online for immediate consideration.
 
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