Devops engineer

POSITION PURPOSE:

The purpose of this position is, but is not limited to, supporting software development by managing tools and processes for efficient code deployment, ensuring smooth collaboration between development and operations teams. This person is responsible for automating systems, maintaining infrastructure, and optimizing software development practices.

POSITION DUTIES/RESPONSIBILITIES:

1. Deploy and maintain critical applications on cloud-native, distributed, serverless architecture.
2. Implement automation, observability, monitoring, and infrastructure-as-code.
3. Manage efficient and reliable CI/CD pipelines across multiple environments to help minimize developer friction.
4. Design and implement secure automation solutions for development, testing, and production environments.
5. Implement industry best practices for system hardening and configuration management, in conjunction with the SecOps team.
6. Improve system reliability through automation, monitoring, and operational best practices.
7. Sustain and improve the process of knowledge sharing throughout the engineering team.
8. Support and work alongside a cross-functional engineering team.
9. Have on call responsibilities in rotation with the engineering team.
10. Operate within their guidelines pursuant to the Employee Handbook and all Policies and Procedures.
11. Perform additional duties as requested by Supervisor and/or Management.

POSITIONAL COMPETENCIES (3-5):

1. Strong programming skills (Node, Typescript).
2. Proficient in automation tools (GitHub Actions, Serverless, etc.).
3. Knowledge of AWS monitoring and logging tools such as Amazon Cloudwatch, AWS CloudTrail.
4. Exceptional attention to detail with a preference for highly structured procedures.
5. Experience maintaining and deploying highly-available, fault-tolerant systems at scale.
6. A drive towards automating repetitive tasks.
7. Expertise with AWS such as IAM, VPC, ECS.
8. Experience implementing CI/CD (e.g. Jenkins, GitHub Actions, CodeBuild).
9. Operational experience with NoSQL databases such as Amazon DynamoDB.
10. Experience with infrastructure-as-code (e.g. Terraform, Serverless Framework, AWS Cloudformation).
11. Effective communication skills.

Job Type & Location

This is a Permanent position based out of Madison, WI.

Pay and Benefits

The pay range for this position is $140000.00 - $170000.00/yr. Individual compensation offered for this position within this range will depend on many factors, including qualifications, skills, relevant experience, job knowledge, geographic location, internal equity, and other pertinent job-related factors. Provides its internal employees with health, dental, and vision insurance, a 401(k) match, and accrued paid time off.

Application Deadline

This position is anticipated to close on Nov 9, 2026.

Workplace Type

This is a fully remote position.

About TEKsystems

We're partners in transformation. We help clients activate ideas and solutions to take advantage of a new world of opportunity. We are a team of 80,000 strong, working with over 6,000 clients, including 80% of the Fortune 500, across North America, Europe and Asia. As an industry leader in Full-Stack Technology Services, Talent Services, and real-world application, we work with progressive leaders to drive change. That's the power of true partnership. TEKsystems is an Allegis Group company.

The company is an equal opportunity employer and will consider all applications without regards to race, sex, age, color, religion, national origin, veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information or any characteristic protected by law.