Senior DevOps Engineer - Contract

Start Date: April

Duration: 6 months + extensions

Location: Remote

Language: English + Spanish

We are looking for a highly skilled Senior DevOps Engineer with a strong hands‑on background in cloud platforms, observability, and modern infrastructure‑as‑code practices. The ideal candidate brings deep technical expertise, at least 8 years of experience , and the ability to work autonomously in a fast‑paced environment.

Main Responsibilities:

• Lead the migration of existing monitoring systems from Splunk to New Relic
• Collaborate to design and implement New Relic governance foundations, including account structure, tagging standards, alerting strategies, dashboards, SLOs
• Define and promote ways of working for observability, ensuring alignment across engineering teams and driving continuous improvement of monitoring processes.
• Implement technical foundations for the company’s systems in New Relic, including logs APM, infrastructure, distributed tracing, synthetics, and integrations.
• Collaborate with application teams to onboard services to New Relic and ensure proper instrumentation, data quality, and visibility.
• Automate observability configurations using Terraform and integrate them into GitHub‑based CI/CD workflows.
• Provide technical guidance to internal teams on Azure, Terraform, GitHub Actions, and observability practices.
• Ensure monitoring and alerting are aligned with business‑critical SLIs/SLOs, enabling proactive detection and rapid troubleshooting.
• Support continuous improvement of operations, reliability, performance, and security.

Requirements:

• New Relic – Dashboards, alerts, APM, infrastructure, logs, distributed tracing,
• synthetics, performance tuning.
• Azure Cloud – Resource management, networking, IAM, governance, cost
• controls.
• Terraform – Modular IaC design, provisioning, state management, automation.
• GitHub – GitHub Actions, CI/CD, repository governance, security features.

Nice‑to‑Have:

• Splunk – Log pipelines, dashboards, alerting.
• SonarCloud – Code scanning automation and rules management.
• Open Policy Frameworks (OPA, Conftest) – Policy-as-Code.
• Kubernetes – Deployments, troubleshooting, Helm.