Senior DevOps Engineer (AWS) — ML Pipelines & FinOps

Senior DevOps Engineer – AWS ML Pipelines & FinOpsJob #734912-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.