Senior DevOps Engineer – Contract

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October 9

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Blenderbox, Inc.

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Government • Design • Technology

Blenderbox, Inc. is a human-centered design agency specializing in transforming government systems and services to enhance efficiency and user-friendliness. Founded in 2000, Blenderbox focuses on civic engagement, creating accessible technology and improving the customer experience for public services. The company is proud of its WBE and SBA Woman-Owned Small Business certifications, and it actively works on reducing administrative burdens by digitizing complex paper-based systems. Blenderbox is committed to designing government services that citizens will love to use, with a strong emphasis on equity, access, and operational efficiency.

11 - 50 employees

🏛️ Government

📋 Description

• Conduct a comprehensive audit of our AWS-based infrastructure (including ECS, Fargate, Terraform IaC, CloudWatch/Sentry monitoring, and disaster recovery setups) and Python/Django application to identify scalability, performance, reliability, and security gaps. • Recommend and implement best practices for high-availability architectures, fault-tolerant mechanisms, and elastic scaling to handle high-traffic scenarios without downtime. • Design and set up a shared tenant instance model, ensuring data isolation, independent scaling per tenant, and compliance with security standards. • Facilitate load testing processes to identify performance optimization opportunities. • Collaborate with our engineering team to enhance CI/CD pipelines, automate deployments, and integrate observability tools for proactive monitoring and alerting.

🎯 Requirements

• 7+ years of DevOps experience, with proven expertise in building and optimizing high-availability, high-traffic applications (e.g., handling peak loads in SaaS environments). • Deep knowledge of AWS services (ECS, Fargate, S3, CloudFront, WAF, CloudWatch) and Infrastructure-as-Code tools like Terraform. • Familiarity with Python/Django ecosystems, including GraphQL (Graphene), task queues (Celery), and databases (PostgreSQL, Redis). • Experience designing multi-tenant architectures with emphasis on isolation, scalability, and security. • Expert knowledge of containerization (Docker), monitoring/anomaly detection. • Excellent problem-solving skills and ability to communicate technical recommendations clearly. • Prior consulting or auditing roles in fast-growing startups or enterprise environments.

🏖️ Benefits

• Flexible part-time schedule • Fully remote • Competitive hourly rate commensurate with experience