Software Engineer III
Software Engineer
Software Engineer
Salisbury , North Carolina Contract Nov 11, 2026
Software Engineer III
Location: Remote
Duration: 6+ month contract
Compensation: $60-70/hour W2
Build and support the cloud platforms and delivery systems that keep our client's complex enterprise technology moving. As a hands-on senior individual contributor, you’ll solve challenging infrastructure and operational problems, guide technical decisions, and help teams deliver reliable solutions across Azure, DevOps, and Databricks.
Key Responsibilities
Category Code: JN008
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Seniority Level: Mid-Senior Level
Location: Remote
Duration: 6+ month contract
Compensation: $60-70/hour W2
Build and support the cloud platforms and delivery systems that keep our client's complex enterprise technology moving. As a hands-on senior individual contributor, you’ll solve challenging infrastructure and operational problems, guide technical decisions, and help teams deliver reliable solutions across Azure, DevOps, and Databricks.
Key Responsibilities
- Build and troubleshoot Azure DevOps YAML pipelines, service connections, variable groups, environments, approvals, artifacts, and test plans.
- Manage Azure resources including Key Vault, AKS, Container Registry, virtual machines, networking, and identity access.
- Design and maintain Infrastructure as Code using Terraform, Bicep, or ARM templates, including modules, state, plans, reviews, and safe deployments.
- Develop operational automation using Bash or PowerShell and Python.
- Deploy and troubleshoot Databricks workspaces and Asset Bundles, including Unity Catalog permissions, service-principal authentication, jobs, pipelines, compute, and deployment state.
- Investigate incidents across application, pipeline, identity, network, and cloud-resource layers; determine root cause, assess impact, and own resolution.
- Apply reliable DevOps practices for automation, change control, rollback, access governance, and cost management.
- Explain technical risks and decisions clearly, coordinate with developers and administrators, and document operational procedures.
- Influence architectural decisions, drive technical initiatives, and mentor engineers.
- 12+ years of software engineering experience.
- Strong hands-on experience with Azure DevOps, Azure platform operations, Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD, Git, and operational troubleshooting.
- Practical experience with Microsoft Entra ID, service principals, managed identities, RBAC, secrets, and least-privilege access.
- Experience with Databricks operations, including workspaces, Asset Bundles, Unity Catalog, jobs, pipelines, and compute.
- Strong Bash or PowerShell skills and the ability to read and write Python for operational tooling.
- Clear communication and effective collaboration across technical teams and stakeholders.
- Datadog or comparable monitoring, logging, alerting, and dashboard experience.
- Confluent Cloud Kafka experience.
- Experience with Spark, Lakeflow, Delta Lake, or Auto Loader.
- Azure networking experience, including private endpoints, DNS, firewalls, and managed storage.
- Experience improving CI throughput and test strategy.
Category Code: JN008
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#LI-Remote
Seniority Level: Mid-Senior Level