DevOps Lead

Job Description

A client of Insight Global is looking to bring a DevOps lead on to the team. This person will be

-Audit the current state: identify what is truly opaque vs. what just feels risky

• Define a practical, scalable DevOps strategy

• Establish clear patterns so new projects follow known paths

• Own and execute the deployment process end-to-end, making it repeatable, teachable, and transparent, while executing deployments, troubleshooting, and on-call rotation

• Own day-to-day DevOps operations, including infrastructure management, monitoring, logging, autoscaling, security posture, patching, and maintenance to ensure systems are reliable and well understood

• Work with existing team and contractor to turn vision into execution

• Improve CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation with clear failure signals, diagnostics, and recovery paths when automation breaks

• Own and guide future scalability of infrastructure, databases, and system architecture

Estimated pay 45-55/hr

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Skills and Requirements

• 6-10 years of experience as a DevOps Leader: someone who can come in and quickly assess current state, set clear direction, and execute alongside the team, while leveling up our DevOps capabilities and removing operational burden from Engineering.

o Idea is to have this person come in and stabilize/mature the DevOps function so looking for immediate expertise

o This person has operated at both a strategic and execution level in a small to mid-sized company and is trusted to set technical direction, make platform and infrastructure decisions, and guide the team on what to do and why

• Hands on lead or manager experience- need someone who can lead by example and not just directing so is hands on

• Advanced programming experience (Python, Go, Ruby, etc.)

• Proficiency with Linux/Unix administration, scripting, and programming (bash, Python, Ruby, etc.)

• Deep expertise with core DevOps technologies such as Docker, Terraform, Ansible, and CloudFormation

• Advanced proficiency with configuration management tools (Ansible, Chef, Puppet, etc.)

• Strong experience with database administration

• Strong troubleshooting and monitoring skills for Linux operating systems

• Hands-on experience implementing monitoring and log aggregation platforms (ELK, Graylog, Graphite, Prometheus, etc.)

• Experience automating the provisioning, deployment, and scaling of resources and applications using CI/CD workflows

• Experience with testing automation tools and frameworks

• Experience deploying and managing web and application servers, load balancers, queues, and caches; proven ability to scale and build resiliency into web application architectures. Experience deploying a 12 Factor App is a plus

• Proficiency with source control systems and IaC to create scriptable, repeatable processes - AWS experience is a plus, as well as familiarity with EC2, S3, Route53, VPC, IAM, and EKS