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 Inc.'s candidate.

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