Senior DevOps Engineer

Hybrid 3 days/week onsite in Concord, CA

We are hiring two Senior DevOps Engineers to lead build, automation, and operations for modern cloud platforms with emphasis on AIOps and the model/ML development lifecycle. You will partner with Data/ML, Platform, and Security teams to deliver resilient and scalable systems that support AI-enabled applications and services.

Due to client requirements, applicants must be willing and able to work on a w2 basis. For our w2 consultants, we offer a great benefits package that includes Medical, Dental, and Vision benefits, 401k with company matching, and life insurance.

Rate: $70.00 to $75.00/hr. w2

• Design and operate CI/CD pipelines for microservices, data services, and ML workloads.
• Implement Infrastructure as Code for cloud environments across AWS, Azure, or GCP.
• Build observability for metrics, logs, and traces, define SLOs and error budgets, and author automated runbooks.
• Drive reliability engineering practices including capacity planning, chaos testing, and incident response.
• Integrate AI/ML tooling to enhance monitoring, anomaly detection, auto-remediation, and incident prediction.
• Operationalize model monitoring and data drift detection with alerting aligned to business KPIs.
• Support end-to-end model lifecycle including data preparation, experiment tracking, model registry, CI/CD for ML, feature stores, and model serving.
• Implement governance for model lineage, approvals, versioning, reproducibility, and compliance controls.
• Embed security in pipelines with SAST/DAST, dependency scanning, and secrets management.
• Enforce RBAC, least privilege, policies-as-code, and auditable change management.
• Partner with Engineering, Data Science, and Product to align on architecture and SLAs.
• Mentor engineers and lead technical deep dives and incident postmortems.

• 7 to 10+ years in DevOps, SRE, or Platform Engineering with production systems.
• Expertise with at least one major cloud provider such as AWS, Azure, or GCP and strong Terraform or equivalent IaC.
• Mastery of CI/CD tools such as GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Azure DevOps, or Jenkins.
• Containerization and orchestration with Docker and Kubernetes at scale.
• Observability with Prometheus and Grafana, OpenTelemetry, ELK/EFK, Datadog, New Relic, or similar.
• Practical AIOps experience including anomaly detection, intelligent alerting, and automated runbooks or adjacent experience with willingness to lead AIOps adoption.
• Hands-on MDLC and MLOps including experiment tracking such as MLflow, model registry, model serving, feature stores, and model monitoring.
• Strong scripting and coding for automation using Python and Bash, with Go as a plus.
• Security-first mindset including secret management with Vault or KMS, container and image scanning, SBOM, and policy guardrails.
• Experience with data platforms such as Spark, Databricks, and Kafka and event-driven designs (preferred).
• GPU workload orchestration and cost and performance optimization for AI workloads (preferred).
• Governance and compliance experience such as SOC 2, ISO 27001, or HIPAA (preferred).
• FinOps exposure and cost observability in cloud environments (preferred).
• GitOps implementation with Argo CD or Flux (preferred).

Recruitment Transparency Notice

Eliassen Group values transparency in our recruitment practices. Please be advised that Eliassen Group utilizes artificial intelligence (AI) tools as part of its initial application screening process. You may receive email and SMS notifications from the Eliassen Virtual Recruiting Team ( [email protected] , 781-808-2924) inviting you to complete a brief voice screening as part of your application process. These tools assist our hiring teams in different ways, including but not limited to, assistance in reviewing application materials to help identify candidates whose qualifications most closely match the requirements of the position. All AI-assisted evaluations and responses are reviewed by human recruiters before any hiring decisions are made. The use of AI in our process is intended to support fairness, efficiency, and consistency, and Eliassen Group takes measures to prevent bias or discrimination in connection with its hiring practices. By proceeding, you acknowledge, agree, and consent to Eliassen Group’s use of these tools, including AI tools, as part of the application and hiring process.

Skills, experience, and other compensable factors will be considered when determining pay rate. The pay range provided in this posting reflects a W2 hourly rate; other employment options may be available that may result in pay outside of the provided range.

About Eliassen Group:

Eliassen Group is a leading strategic consulting company for human-powered solutions. For over 30 years, Eliassen has helped thousands of companies reach further and achieve more with their technology solutions, financial, risk & compliance, and advisory solutions, and clinical solutions. With offices from coast to coast and throughout Europe, Eliassen provides a local community presence, balanced with international reach. Eliassen Group strives to positively impact the lives of their employees, clients, consultants, and the communities in which they operate.

Eliassen Group is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, protected veteran status, or disability status.

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