Devops Lead
Dallas, US
Job Type
: ContractWork location
: OnsiteSalary
: $70 / HourlyDescription
Lead and support DevOps and Cloud engagements across delivery, pre-sales, practice development, and team enablement, ensuring projects are executed to best practices and continuously improved.
Responsibilities
- Lead transition and delivery of DevOps/Cloud engagements; define metrics and drive service improvements
- Partner with Delivery teams to ensure successful project initiation, execution, and closeout
- Support pre-sales with solution design, estimates, risk assessment, and technical guidance
- Contribute to DevOps practice evolution, service offerings, methodologies, and IP
- Assist with hiring, onboarding, and mentoring DevOps team members
Experience
- 10+ years experience, advanced DevOps/Kafka depth, automation at scale, and technical leadership
- 7+ years in IT/professional services; 3+ years as DevOps Engineer
- Strong Kafka expertise (clusters, security, tuning, replication); MongoDB preferred
- Hands-on with Kubernetes/OpenShift/Tanzu, CI/CD, IaC, containers, monitoring, and telemetry
- Proficient in cloud platforms (AWS, Azure; GCP a plus), scripting, Linux/Windows, networking