Job Title: Senior DevOps Engineer: AWS, Kubernetes & Platform Reliability (Contract)
Company: Nimara Ventures, Inc. Location: Remote (US-based). 3-4 hours overlap with US Eastern/Central hours Employment Type: Contract, long-term (W2, C2C or 1099) Pay Rate: [$40-$45/hr C2C] · [$45-$50/hr W2]
About the RoleNimara Ventures places senior AI, DevOps and product engineers with US companies. We’re looking for a hands-on Senior DevOps Engineer to build and run secure, scalable cloud platforms on AWS for client engagements. You’ll own infrastructure from networking to CI/CD to observability, work directly with engineering leadership, and set reliability standards that teams can follow.
What You’ll Do
Design and manage AWS infrastructure: VPC, compute, load balancing, storage and databases
Lead cloud migrations and platform build-outs, from architecture and tool selection to cutover
Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines (CircleCI, Jenkins or Argo CD) and automate image builds with Packer
Manage infrastructure as code with Terraform and Terragrunt, and configuration with Ansible/AWX
Run containerized workloads on Kubernetes, with policy and access controls such as Kyverno and RBAC
Define SLOs, alerting thresholds, dashboards and escalation policies, and improve observability (Datadog, Grafana, Prometheus, CloudWatch, OpenSearch)
Act as incident commander for production issues, run post-incident reviews, and maintain runbooks and on-call processes
Harden security and compliance: IAM, KMS, WAF, secrets management (HashiCorp Vault), SSO/SAML, and audit remediation such as PCI DSS
Plan disaster recovery and backups, and reduce cloud spend through right-sizing and cost monitoring
Mentor engineers and report on reliability and cost to leadership.
Required Qualifications
6+ years in DevOps, SRE or cloud infrastructure
Deep AWS experience (VPC, EC2, IAM, S3, RDS, Lambda, CloudFront or similar)
Production Kubernetes experience
Strong Terraform; experience with Ansible or similar configuration management
Hands-on CI/CD experience (CircleCI, Jenkins, Argo CD or GitHub Actions)
Experience with monitoring and logging platforms (Datadog, Grafana, Prometheus, ELK/OpenSearch)
Scripting in Python and Bash
Experience handling production incidents and writing runbooks
Strong communication, and comfort working with engineering leadership
Preferred
AWS Solutions Architect, Certified Kubernetes Administrator or HashiCorp Terraform certification
Compliance experience (PCI DSS, SOC 2)
HashiCorp Vault, Okta SSO/SAML, AWS WAF
Terragrunt, Packer, Kyverno
Cost optimization (AWS Cost Explorer, tagging, right-sizing)
Multi-cloud exposure (Google Cloud Platform)
Experience leading or mentoring DevOps teams
Work Authorization: Must be legally authorized to work in the US without sponsorship.
How to Apply: Send your resume and expected rate to
Nimara Ventures, Inc. is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, veteran status or any other protected characteristic.