Senior DevOps Engineer (Louisville)

Job Title: Senior DevOps Engineer Contract Length: 6 Months (with potential for extension)
Location: Hybrid Remote | Onsite Tuesdays and Thursdays in Louisville, KY 40213

We are seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer to lead the reliability, architecture, automation, and operational excellence of a large-scale restaurant technology platform. This role is responsible for designing, implementing, and continuously improving infrastructure that spans cloud environments, Kubernetes platforms, edge computing systems, networking, mobile device management, CI/CD pipelines, and automation tooling.

This is a senior-level, hands-on engineering position requiring a strong generalist mindset. The ideal candidate is equally comfortable architecting cloud solutions, troubleshooting distributed edge systems, improving observability, automating operational processes, and driving reliability initiatives across the technology stack.

Build and maintain monitoring, alerting, and observability solutions
Lead incident response, root cause analysis, and post-incident reviews
Establish reliability metrics and report on system health and performance
Proactively identify and mitigate reliability risks
Cloud Architecture & Infrastructure:
Design and implement scalable, secure, and highly available cloud architectures
Manage AWS infrastructure, including:
Support Microsoft Azure environments
Architect and manage Kubernetes deployments, including edge-based environments
Provide architecture leadership across cloud, edge, networking, and device infrastructure
DevOps & Automation
Build and optimize CI/CD pipelines using GitLab CI/CD
Create scripts and integrations using Python, Bash, Go, or similar languages
Utilize AI-assisted development tools to accelerate troubleshooting, scripting, and documentation
Promote an automation-first engineering culture
Support Kubernetes-based edge platforms deployed across restaurant locations
Manage and troubleshoot restaurant technology systems and deployments
Support mobile application deployment and endpoint technologies
Manage and optimize Mobile Device Management (MDM) platforms
Configure and troubleshoot enterprise networking environments including switches and VLANs
Establish cloud governance standards and architectural best practices
Network segmentation
Conduct security architecture reviews and risk assessments
Partner with engineering, DevOps, security, and operations teams
Drive continuous improvement across reliability, performance, security, and scalability initiatives

6+ years of experience in IT infrastructure
~Site Reliability Engineering (SRE)
~ Cloud Architecture
~ Platform Engineering
~ Cloud Infrastructure Engineering
~ Strong hands-on AWS experience including:
~ Working experience with Microsoft Azure
~ Experience building and managing GitLab CI/CD pipelines
~ Enterprise networking experience including:
~ Switch configuration
~ VLAN configuration
~ Network troubleshooting
~ Experience with Mobile Device Management (MDM) platforms
~ Python
~ Similar languages:
Strong Linux administration and troubleshooting experience
AWS and/or Azure certifications
AWS Lambda
Container scanning
Infrastructure-as-Code scanning
Experience with monitoring and observability tools such as:
SIEM platforms
Experience using AI-assisted development tools
Reliability Engineering
Cloud Architecture
AWS & Azure
DevOps & DevSecOps
Enterprise Networking
Observability & Monitoring
Root Cause Analysis