Lead Devops Engineer
Bright Vision Technologies · Columbus, OH · 2 days ago
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Bright Vision Technologies is a technology consulting and software development company delivering cloud, AI, data, and enterprise solutions across the United States, offering tremendous career growth potential.
Location: Columbus, OH (Onsite) | Experience: 15+ years | Sponsorship: U.S. Citizens, Green Card Holders, and EAD Holders encouraged to apply; new H‑1B visa petitions cannot be sponsored for this position.
About the role
We are seeking a highly experienced Lead DevOps Engineer to define, govern, and drive the adoption of enterprise‑wide DevOps, Platform Engineering, and Observability standards across technology stacks and application environments.
Responsibilities
- Build, maintain, and optimize CI/CD pipelines for reliable application deployments
- Manage and improve AWS infrastructure across ECS, EKS, and EC2 environments
- Develop and maintain Infrastructure as Code using Terraform
- Monitor system health and performance using Grafana and supporting observability tools
- Troubleshoot infrastructure and application issues in staging and production environments
- Collaborate with developers to improve deployment workflows and system reliability
- Support containerized workloads using Docker and Kubernetes (EKS)
- Implement and maintain logging, alerting, and incident response processes
- Contribute to cost optimization and performance tuning within AWS
- Maintain clear documentation for infrastructure, processes, and runbooks
- Leverage AI and emerging technologies to improve productivity, streamline workflows, and identify opportunities for continuous improvement while ensuring responsible, secure, and compliant use of AI tools
- Use AI‑assisted tooling to draft, refactor, and review Terraform modules and Kubernetes/ECS manifests, improving delivery speed while maintaining quality and security standards
Requirements
- 15+ years of experience in DevOps, SRE, or related roles
- Hands‑on experience with AWS services, particularly ECS, EKS, and EC2
- Experience writing and maintaining Infrastructure as Code using Terraform
- Experience with monitoring/observability tools, especially Grafana
- Familiarity with CI/CD tools (e.g., GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins)
- Experience with containerization (Docker)
- Working knowledge of Linux systems and networking fundamentals
- Scripting experience (Bash, Python, or similar)
- Can independently handle day‑to‑day infrastructure and deployment tasks
- Comfortable debugging issues across application and infrastructure layers
- Takes ownership of services (e.g., a cluster, pipeline, or environment)
- Knows when to escalate complex architectural decisions
- Proactively identifies reliability, performance, and cost improvements
- Experience applying AI to DevOps practices, including infrastructure automation, CI/CD optimization, incident investigation, observability, and operational efficiency