Senior DevOps Engineer (AWS) — ML Pipelines & FinOps

Senior DevOps Engineer – AWS ML Pipelines & FinOps
Job #7349 12-month W-2 contract (renewal likely)
Rate: $80 – $95 per hour DOE
Location: Remote / Hybrid – Core hours 09:00 – 13:00 PST

About the role:

A Tier-1 U.S. bank is modernising its 20-year-old core platform. We need a seasoned DevOps engineer to design and operate SageMaker-based ML pipelines in AWS while meeting strict security, uptime, and cost-management requirements.

What you’ll do:

– Provision secure landing zones with AWS CDK and Terraform; implement least-privilege IAM.
– Build GitOps pipelines in Argo CD for continuous model retraining, blue/green inference, and data-drift checks.
– Break monolithic services into EKS microservices behind API Gateway with zero-downtime principles.
– Set up CloudWatch and Grafana dashboards for latency, cost, and data-quality SLOs with real-time alerts.
– Apply policy-as-code (OPA or Kyverno) so every container meets banking-grade compliance at commit time.
– Champion infrastructure-as-code: every subnet, secret, and S3 bucket lands through a pull request.

What you bring:

– 7 + years DevOps / SRE on AWS, with at least 3 years supporting ML or data-heavy platforms.
– Deep expertise in Terraform or CDK, containers, and EKS operations.
– Demonstrated FinOps results in regulated environments (banking, healthcare, etc.).
– Strong experience with SageMaker; familiarity with Bedrock, EMR, Kafka, or Iceberg is a plus.
– Proficiency with CloudWatch, Grafana, Prometheus, Trivy, Falco, and related security tools.
– Clear, concise communicator committed to blameless post-mortems.
– BS in Computer Science (or equivalent). AWS Professional or CKA cert preferred.

Why contract with us:

– Dedicated budget for CKA, AWS Solutions Architect Professional, or FinOps Practitioner certification.
– Paid attendance (virtual or on-site) at re:Invent or KubeCon.
– Monthly home-office or co-working stipend.
– Remote-first culture: four-hour PST overlap window; the rest is async.
– Refer a candidate and earn a $1,000 bonus if they are hired.

Interested? Apply below.