What are the responsibilities and job description for the DevOps Engineer position at Optomi?
Optomi, in partnership with our entertainment client, are seeking an experienced DevOps Engineer to join their team on a 6 month contract opportunity with potential to convert.
Hybrid - onsite 1x/week
W2 only - no C2C/sponsorship available.
Position Overview
Our client is looking for an experienced DevOps Engineer to take ownership of infrastructure and server-side operations, stepping into a critical role.
You’ll join a small, agile team with high impact, supporting sophisticated server environments, CI/CD workflows, and private cloud infrastructure. The focus of this role is maintaining stability, ensuring scalability, and streamlining deployment operations across the technology stack.
Required Skills & Qualifications
- 5 years in DevOps, Infrastructure, or Systems Administration roles
- Deep expertise in Linux server management and OS-level troubleshooting
Hands-on experience with CI/CD pipelines, particularly:
- GitHub
- Jenkins (including database and web application deployments)
- Strong familiarity with cloud infrastructure
- Proficient with Docker and container-based environments
- Skilled in server performance analysis and troubleshooting
- Solid understanding of server architecture and infrastructure-as-code principles
- Experience deploying or maintaining Snowflake or similar cloud data platforms
Preferred Qualifications
- Familiarity with Flask and Django-based web applications
- Understanding of ETL pipelines and database-level application support
- Experience configuring or maintaining load balancers
- Exposure to UC4 or similar job scheduling/queue-based systems
- Knowledge of change management and access control best practices
- Strong interpersonal skills with the ability to collaborate across technical teams
Key Responsibilities
- Lead and maintain all DevOps operations and infrastructure tooling
- Support and optimize CI/CD pipelines for both application and data workflows (including Snowflake)
- Scale and troubleshoot infrastructure, provision new servers
- Continuously improve infrastructure processes, load balancing, and monitoring practices
- Ensure high availability, reliability, and scalability for mission-critical systems
