Lead II - DevOps Engineering

TekWissen LLC

Atlanta, GA

JOB DETAILS
SALARY
$61.52–$61.52
SKILLS
AWS Lambda, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), Amazon Web Services (AWS), Automation, Best Practices, Budgeting, Cloud Architecture, Cloud Computing, Computer Security, Continuous Deployment/Delivery, Continuous Integration, Cost Control, DevOps, Diversity, Docker, High Availability, Information Technology & Information Systems, Mentoring, Metrics, Production Management, Release Management/Engineering, Team Lead/Manager, Vulnerability Scanners, Workforce Management
LOCATION
Atlanta, GA
POSTED
6 days ago
Overview:
TekWissen is a global workforce management provider headquartered in Ann Arbor, Michigan that offers strategic talent solutions to our clients world-wide. Our client provider of digital technology and transformation, information technology and services
Position: Lead II - DevOps Engineering
Location: Atlanta, GA/ Bellevue, WA, Frisco, TX
Duration: 6 Months
Job Type: Temporary Assignment
Work Type: Hybrid
Job Description
  • Lead DevOps Engineer is responsible for designing, implementing, and optimizing cloud native infrastructure and CI/CD automation across mission critical systems.
  • This role combines deep expertise in AWS Cloud, GitLab Pipelines, and Kubernetes to drive reliability, scalability, and engineering velocity.
  • Key Responsibilities Cloud Architecture Design and maintain highly available AWS environments using EC2, EKS, VPC, IAM, RDS, Lambda, and CloudWatch.
  • CI/CD Automation Build, optimize, and govern GitLab CI/CD pipelines for multi service deployments.
  • Kubernetes Operations Manage production-grade Kubernetes clusters, including scaling, monitoring, and workload orchestration.
  • Infrastructure as Code Implement IaC using Terraform or CloudFormation to ensure consistent, repeatable infrastructure.
  • Security & Compliance Enforce cloud security standards, secrets management, vulnerability scanning, and compliance automation.
  • Observability Implement logging, metrics, and tracing using tools like Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, or CloudWatch.
  • Team Leadership Mentor DevOps engineers, establish best practices, and collaborate with development teams.
  • Release Engineering Oversee deployment strategies (blue/green, canary, rolling) for high availability systems.
  • Cost Optimization Monitor and optimize cloud spend across compute, storage, and networking.
  • Required Skills & Experience
  • AWS Expertise 5-8+ years hands-on experience with core AWS services and cloud architecture.
  • GitLab CI/CD Strong experience building complex pipelines, runners, and automated deployment workflows.
  • Kubernetes Deep knowledge of EKS, Helm, Operators, networking, and cluster lifecycle management.
  • Containerization Proficiency with Docker image design, multi-stage builds, and container security.
  • IaC Strong Terraform module design and environment provisioning.
  • SRE Principles Understanding of SLIs, SLOs, error budgets.
TekWissen Group is an equal opportunity employer supporting workforce diversity.

About the Company

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TekWissen LLC

WE THE TEKWISSEN PEOPLE

TekWissen offers you a broader portfolio of services, industry-leading solutions, and the meaningful innovations that give you greater flexibility and speed to respond to market dynamics, reduced costs and risk to improve enterprise performance, and increased productivity to enable growth.

To keep pace with global market demands, TekWissen keeps its finger on the pulse of change. Our organized approach to guiding a project from its inception to closure. Managing projects is becoming more and more important as we enter the digital era. To cope with the pace that this transition demands, a method is required to manage projects so they can yield quality work, while incorporating efficient use of time and resources.

Project involves identifying which quality standards are relevant to the project and determining how to satisfy them.

It is important to perform quality planning during the Planning Process and should be done alongside the other project planning processes because changes in the quality will likely require changes in the other planning processes, or the desired product quality may require a detailed risk analysis of an identified problem. It is important to remember that quality should be planned, designed, then built in, not added on after the fact.

Capabilities and accomplishments in one TekWissen business enhance the opportunity for success in the others. Put simply, TekWissen's unique combination of attributes promotes success.



COMPANY SIZE
100 to 499 employees
INDUSTRY
Computer/IT Services
FOUNDED
2009
WEBSITE
http://www.tekwissen.com/