DevOps Engineer
Insight Global · Greenwood Village, CO
$40–$50/hrfrom the description
Jun 30, 2026
Greenwood Village, CO
Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A DevOps engineering role focused on building and operating a large-scale AWS platform centred on EMR (Hadoop) clusters and EKS (Kubernetes) environments. Day-to-day work spans designing and managing AWS infrastructure with Terraform, handling IAM and networking, supporting event-driven architectures with Lambda, and collaborating with data and application teams. Suits engineers with solid production AWS and Kubernetes experience who are comfortable in a Kanban-style workflow.
Mid level · 3+ years · Denver-Aurora-Lakewood, CO · Contract
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 140 people in the Denver-Aurora-Lakewood, CO area plausibly meet what this posting asks for (software developers). range 30–220
Applicant volume Moderate — A normal amount of company. The rare requirements below are what will separate a shortlisted application from the rest.
Rare in this occupation — lead with these, and say what you built with them.
What the occupation pays Median $140,636 (middle half $126,359–$175,118). This posting is about at that midpoint.
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Jul 28, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (9)
The role is posted by Insight Global (a staffing firm) on behalf of a client; the $40–50/hr rate and contract-style framing strongly suggest this is a contract or contract-to-hire engagement, though the posting does not explicitly say 'contract'.
The title 'DevOps Engineer' carries no seniority modifier, so advertised seniority is Unspecified. The 3+ year experience gate and scope of responsibilities support a Mid-level classification.
SOC classification is a genuine judgment call: the role writes Terraform, builds automation, and authors CI/CD pipelines (pointing to 15-1252 Software Developers), but also heavily operates and manages existing AWS infrastructure (pointing to 15-1244). The primary day-to-day emphasis on building and coding infrastructure-as-code tips the classification to 15-1252, with 15-1244 as the runner-up.
Go development and GitLab CI/CD appear in the 'Skills and Requirements' section but are listed after the core required bullets without the same firm language ('3+ years…', 'Strong…', 'depth'); they read as strong-preferred rather than hard gates.
Kafka and Apache Pinot are listed together as a single 'or' requirement under the nice-to-have bullets; they are captured as one preferred skill with alternatives.
AWS cost optimization (reserved instances, savings plans, right-sizing) is listed as 'familiarity with' — explicitly soft language — so it is marked preferred.
The role is hybrid 3 days/week in Greenwood Village, CO (Denver metro); it is not fully remote.
Ignored 1 non-technology phrase(s) as skills (responsibilities/concepts, not named tools): AWS cost optimization.
Posting is for a contract engagement — the market benchmarks below price full-time roles, so read the comp comparison with that in mind.
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