DevOps Engineer

DevOps Engineer

W2 Contract

Pay Rate: $55 - $65 per hour

Location: San Diego, CA - Hybrid Role

Job Summary:

We are seeking a DevOps / Cloud Infrastructure Engineer to support the platform and related financial services infrastructure. This role will focus on improving platform reliability, supporting migration from legacy on-premise systems to AWS, and maintaining modern DevOps practices across highly available payment services.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Build, maintain, and optimize AWS-based infrastructure supporting large-scale financial services platforms.
• Support migration of legacy infrastructure to AWS while preparing systems for future cloud-native architectures
• Implement infrastructure-as-code using tools such as Terraform, CloudFormation, or Pulumi.
• Design and maintain CI/CD pipelines using tools such as Spinnaker, GitLab CI, GitHub Actions, or ArgoCD
• Improve deployment automation, release management, and environment consistency across services.
• Develop automation scripts and tooling to improve operational efficiency.
• Manage containerized applications using Docker and Kubernetes.
• Implement Kubernetes deployment patterns and Helm-based packaging.
• Support scaling and operational management of containerized workloads
• Implement and maintain monitoring, logging, and alerting solutions using tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, or Splunk.
• Improve platform observability to ensure high availability and system reliability.
• Investigate performance bottlenecks and production incidents.
• Apply DevSecOps principles throughout the CI/CD pipeline.
• Manage secrets using solutions such as Vault or AWS Secrets Manager.
• Ensure infrastructure and deployment processes align with compliance and security requirements.
• Participate in on-call rotations and incident management processes.
• Create runbooks and operational playbooks for system support.
• Conduct post-incident reviews and implement reliability improvements.
• Work closely with development, security, product, and compliance teams.
• Maintain clear documentation and communicate effectively across engineering teams.

Requirements and Qualifications:

• Strong experience designing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines
• Deep expertise in AWS cloud infrastructure
• Hands-on experience with Kubernetes, Docker, and Helm
• Experience implementing infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, CloudFormation, Pulumi)
• Strong knowledge of monitoring and observability platforms
• Proficiency in scripting or programming languages such as Python, Bash, or Go
• Experience designing high-availability systems with disaster recovery and failover strategies
• Experience participating in incident management and production support environments
• Strong communication skills and ability to collaborate across engineering teams

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience working with digital payment systems, e-commerce platforms, or tokenization services
• Familiarity with financial services compliance frameworks such as PCI-DSS, SOC 2, or GDPR
• Experience working in fintech or highly regulated environments
• Understanding of data residency requirements and financial regulatory controls

Bayside Solutions, Inc. is not able to sponsor any candidates at this time. Additionally, candidates for this position must qualify as a W2 candidate.

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