DevOps / Platform Engineer

Scion Staffing has been engaged to conduct a search for a DevOps / Platform Engineer for an established, technology-driven company in the entertainment and hospitality industry that is investing in modernizing its digital platforms, customer-facing applications, and cloud infrastructure to enhance the overall guest experience. This is a 6+ month, hybrid opportunity based in Austin, TX (2 days / week onsite)., The DevOps / Platform Engineer will play a key role in building and modernizing AWS cloud infrastructure, improving deployment automation, and supporting the development of a new customer-facing application. This hands-on position will focus on Terraform infrastructure management, container migrations, CI/CD optimization, cloud networking, security, and observability while collaborating with internal engineering teams and external development partners. The ideal candidate brings strong AWS and Terraform expertise, demonstrated experience leveraging AI-assisted engineering tools, and the ability to independently own infrastructure initiatives while delivering secure, scalable, and reliable production environments., * Modern Technology & AI Innovation: Work extensively with AWS, Terraform, containerized environments, CI/CD automation, and AI-assisted engineering tools to improve infrastructure efficiency and reliability., * Design, build, maintain, and optimize AWS cloud infrastructure, including ECS, EC2, Lambda, RDS, ECR, S3, CloudFront, IAM, VPC networking, and AWS WAF, supporting secure and reliable production applications.

• Develop, manage, and enhance Terraform Infrastructure as Code (IaC), including separating development, testing, and production environments, creating new service stacks, managing GitHub pull request workflows, executing Terraform plan/apply processes, and resolving infrastructure drift.
• Lead infrastructure modernization efforts, including migrating EC2 workloads to ECS/containerized environments, improving scalability, deployment consistency, and operational efficiency.
• Build, maintain, and streamline CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions, Buddy.Works, or comparable technologies, including automating Terraform deployments, improving release processes, and reducing manual infrastructure tasks.
• Support cloud networking, security, and production reliability, including DNS, CDN/WAF configurations, custom security rules, rate limiting, Cloudflare Tunnels (cloudflared), Workers, security rules as code, bot and credential-stuffing mitigation, security hardening, and incident response using Cloudflare or comparable technologies.
• Implement and improve observability, monitoring, and troubleshooting using Honeycomb, Datadog, or comparable tools, while supporting production deployments, API services, PHP/Craft CMS application environments, and established production change-management processes.
• Independently drive infrastructure improvements, collaborate with internal engineering teams and external development partners, and maintain technical documentation while actively leveraging AI-assisted engineering tools to accelerate infrastructure development, Terraform automation, CI/CD improvements, troubleshooting, and problem-solving, ensuring AI-generated solutions are validated, secure, and aligned with engineering best practices.

• Collaborative & Flexible Environment: Enjoy a hybrid schedule in Austin, TX, while collaborating with experienced engineers and external development partners on meaningful technical initiatives., * Minimum 6 years of professional experience in DevOps, Platform Engineering, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), or Cloud Engineering.
• Strong hands-on AWS expertise, including provisioning, configuring, maintaining, securing, and troubleshooting production cloud infrastructure, with experience across services such as ECS, EC2, Lambda, RDS, IAM, VPC networking, and related AWS technologies.
• Advanced hands-on Terraform experience, including developing and maintaining Infrastructure as Code, provisioning new infrastructure, managing multiple environments (development, testing, and production), implementing Git-based workflows, and automating infrastructure deployments.
• Experience with containerization and cloud infrastructure modernization, including Docker, AWS ECS, or comparable container technologies; experience migrating EC2 workloads to ECS is highly valued.
• Strong experience building, maintaining, and improving CI/CD pipelines, preferably using GitHub Actions or Buddy.Works; experience with comparable automation platforms, including Jenkins, will also be considered.
• Experience with cloud networking, application security, and production operations, including DNS, CDN, WAF, rate limiting, security hardening, bot mitigation, and incident response. Experience with Cloudflare, Akamai, Fastly, AWS CloudFront/WAF, or comparable technologies is acceptable.
• Experience with observability, monitoring, and production troubleshooting using Honeycomb, Datadog, or comparable tools, along with supporting application deployments, API services, and production change management.
• Demonstrated experience incorporating AI-assisted development and engineering tools into daily workflows to improve infrastructure automation, Terraform development, CI/CD processes, troubleshooting, documentation, and overall engineering productivity. Must be comfortable using AI responsibly, independently validating AI-generated solutions, exercising sound technical judgment, and collaborating effectively with engineering teams and external partners. AWS certifications are a plus.

• Competitive Compensation & Benefits: W-2 contract opportunity with access to applicable benefits, and strong potential for contract extension., This is a 6+ month W-2 contract opportunity based in Austin, TX, offering competitive compensation up to $85/hr W2 (DOE) along with access to applicable employee benefits through Scion Staffing. The position follows a hybrid schedule requiring approximately two days onsite per week, with additional in-person collaboration potentially beneficial during the initial onboarding period. There is potential for contract extension or possible conversion to a full-time position depending on performance, business needs, and future fiscal planning. Candidates should be comfortable with occasional after-hours or weekend production changes and potential on-call responsibilities as needed., Scion Staffing, Inc. is an equal opportunity employer and service provider and does not discriminate based on race, religion, gender, gender identity, national origin, citizenship status, sexual orientation, disability, political affiliation or belief, or any other protected class. We are committed to the principles of Equal Opportunity Employment and are dedicated to making employment decisions based on merit and value, for ourselves, our client companies, and the candidates we represent. For opportunities located in a region that have enacted fair chance, arrest or conviction-based employment ordinances, Scion Staffing proactively follows the enacted guidance and considers for employment all qualified applications with arrest and conviction records. We engage in socially conscious business practices and believe that diverse, inclusive, and non-biased talent and recruitment processes are foundational to the success of Scion as well as every client organization with whom we partner.

Scion Staffing is a national award-winning staffing firm! Since 2006, we have had the pleasure of successfully placing thousands of talented professionals with amazing career opportunities. Through our innovative team building and recruiting solutions, we bridge the gap in executive leadership searches, direct hire recruiting, interim leadership placement, and temporary professional staffing. We are proud to be part of the Forbes lists of the Best Recruitment Firms and the Best Executive Search Firms in America. Additionally, Scion has been recognized as a ClearlyRated Best of Staffing firm as well as a top recruitment firm by The Business Times. Additional information about our firm can also be found online.