DevOps Engineer (Contract to Hire)- Only USC or GreenCard

Position Overview

André Global Inc. is seeking a DevOps Engineer to strengthen our software delivery and infrastructure operations capability. This role is responsible for designing, implementing, and maintaining scalable infrastructure, automation frameworks, and CI/CD pipelines that enable engineering teams to deliver secure and reliable software at speed.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, deploy, and maintain cloud-native infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) practices.
• Manage and optimize environments across development, staging, and production.
• Implement high availability, scalability, and fault tolerance in platform architecture.
• Support containerized workloads using Docker and Kubernetes.
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines to automate build, testing, and deployment workflows.
• Integrate security, testing, and compliance controls into the pipeline (DevSecOps practices).
• Reduce manual operational work through automation and scripting.
• Implement monitoring, alerting, and observability solutions.
• Maintain platform reliability through incident response, root cause analysis, and continuous improvement.
• Define and track Service Level Objectives (SLOs), Service Level Indicators (SLIs), and operational Key Performance Indicators (KPIs).

Required Qualifications

• Education: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• Experience: 3 to 6+ years experience in DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering, or Infrastructure Engineering.
• Technical Skills: Strong experience with several of the following: Cloud Platforms (Azure and AWS), Infrastructure as Code (Terraform), Containers & Orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes), CI/CD Platforms (Jenkins, Argo CD), Configuration Management (Ansible), Monitoring & Observability (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK Stack and Loki), Scripting & Development (Python, Bash), Version Control (Git and Git-based workflows).

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience implementing DevSecOps pipelines.
• Knowledge of zero-trust security models.

Soft Skills

• Strong analytical and problem-solving capability.
• Clear communication across engineering and operations teams.
• Ability to operate in high-availability production environments.
• Continuous learning mindset.

Success Metrics

• Performance in this role will typically be measured by reduced infrastructure incidents and downtime.
• Increased automation coverage.
• Improved developer productivity and release velocity.