W2 ONLY AWS DevOps Engineer - Contract to hire

Senior DevOps Engineer – Chicago or Houston (no relocation candidates). U.S. citizen or Green Card holder – no sponsorship. Contract‑to‑hire. Direct candidate contact only – no W‑2 referrals.

Requirements

• 8+ years of experience in DevOps or related roles
• Proven track record of successfully implementing DevOps practices in complex environments
• Experience with scalable, secure, and reliable application deployments
• Cloud Platforms: proficiency with AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud; hands‑on experience with services such as ECS, API‑Gateway, Active‑MQ, EC2, S3, RDS, Lambda, and CloudFormation
• CI/CD Tools: extensive experience with Jenkins, GitLab CI, CircleCI, TeamCity, Harness, and GitHub Actions
• Infrastructure as Code: hands‑on experience with Terraform, Ansible, or AWS CloudFormation
• Containerization: strong knowledge of Docker and orchestration with Kubernetes
• Scripting and Automation: proficiency in Python, Bash, or PowerShell
• Monitoring and Logging: experience with Dynatrace, Prometheus, Grafana, ELK Stack, or Splunk