DevOps Engineer

Job Title: DevOps Engineer
Location: Overland Park Kansas
Type: Contract

Job Description

We are seeking a DevOps Engineer with strong AWS Cloud expertise to design implement and manage scalable secure and automated cloud infrastructure for enterprise grade applications. You will build and optimize CI/CD pipelines manage Infrastructure as Code (Terraform) and ensure high availability reliability and observability of cloud based workloads across dev test and production environments.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement robust CI/CD pipelines for automated build test and deployment processes using tools such as Jenkins GitHub Actions or AWS CodePipeline.
• Develop and manage Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform to provision version control and maintain AWS environments.
• Provision manage and optimize multiple AWS environments (DEV TEST PROD) for availability security and cost efficiency.
• Ensure high availability scalability and reliability of cloud based applications and services.
• Implement monitoring logging and alerting solutions (e.g. CloudWatch CloudTrail and third party tools) for proactive incident detection and resolution.
• Collaborate closely with development and architecture teams to streamline deployment processes enforce standards and reduce release lead time.
• Apply AWS networking and security best practices (VPC subnets route tables security groups IAM KMS).
• Support DevSecOps and observability practices including secrets management compliance and performance tuning.

Required Skills & Expertise

Mandatory Skills (AWS DevOps Services)

• Strong hands on experience with the AWS Cloud platform.
• Expertise in Terraform for infrastructure automation and IaC management.
• Solid understanding of CI/CD tools and practices (e.g. Jenkins GitHub Actions AWS CodePipeline).
• In depth knowledge of AWS networking and security best practices (VPC security groups IAM KMS compliance basics).
• Good understanding of the AWS Well Architected Framework (reliability security performance efficiency cost optimization operational excellence).

Core AWS Services Experience

• Networking: VPC subnets route tables security groups.
• Compute / Containers: ECS ECR Lambda and containerized workloads.
• Load Balancing: API Gateway ALB ELB.
• Storage & Databases: S3 RDS.
• Security: KMS IAM least privilege design.
• Monitoring: CloudWatch (metrics logs alarms).
• Content & Networking Delivery: Route 53 CloudFront.
• IoT Services (Nice to have context): IoT Core IoT SiteWise IoT Greengrass.

Nice to Have

• Experience with container orchestration (ECS Fargate Kubernetes).
• Exposure to DevSecOps practices (security shift left secrets management image scanning policy as code).
• Experience designing and operating multi account AWS architectures and governance frameworks (Control Tower Organizations SSO central logging/monitoring).

Soft Skills

• Strong problem solving and troubleshooting mindset.
• Excellent collaboration and communication skills with development SRE and security teams.
• Ability to document and evangelize AWS best practices and DevOps patterns.

Keywords: DevOps Engineer AWS DevOps AWS Cloud Terraform Infrastructure as Code IaC CI/CD Jenkins GitHub Actions AWS CodePipeline VPC subnets route tables security groups IAM KMS ECS ECR Lambda API Gateway ALB S3 RDS CloudWatch Route 53 CloudFront IoT Core IoT SiteWise IoT Greengrass container orchestration ECS Fargate Kubernetes DevSecOps security best practices AWS Well-Architected Framework monitoring logging alerting automation cloud infrastructure cloud operations remote multi-account AWS AWS Organizations Control Tower SSO observability deployment automation configuration management scripting Python Bash remote work DevOps services AWS DevOps Services

About VDart Group
VDart Group is a global leader in technology product and talent solutions serving Fortune 500 clients in 13 countries. With over 4000 professionals worldwide we deliver innovation operational excellence and measurable outcomes across industries. Guided by our commitment to People Purpose and Planet VDart is recognized with an EcoVadis Bronze Medal and as a UN Global Compact member reflecting our dedication to sustainable practices.