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DevOps Engineer

Recent update: · Updated salary band · Focus skill today: Elasticsearch
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InnovateNow — Wilmington, NC
Freelance Senior $101,000 - $147,000 Posted 2026-10-12 Closes 2026-12-13
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The opportunity

We're hiring a DevOps Engineer who treats latency budgets like personal grudges and PagerDuty like a second language. With 6 years of experience under your belt, you'll step into a freelance position paying $101,000 - $147,000 where ownership and momentum matter.

Key Responsibilities

  • Pair Cultural Awareness and Ansible in a pipeline InnovateNow can extend without your help later
  • Catch the Ansible race conditions that only surface under Wilmington peak traffic
  • Write the Elasticsearch integration tests that catch regressions before Wilmington, NC ships them
  • Sketch the Cultural Awareness architecture, defend it in review, then build the thing
  • Tune Delegation queries until the NC database stops timing out under load
  • Reach into legacy PagerDuty modules and leave them cleaner than you found them
  • Turn InnovateNow's PagerDuty on-call noise into alerts that actually mean something
  • Reproduce the calmly-fast-moving bug from the Wilmington field report, then make it impossible again

What You'll Bring

  • Working understanding of both Ansible and Elasticsearch in real-world settings
  • A solid foundation in Cultural Awareness, refined over 6+ years
  • Comfortable presenting ideas to stakeholders at every level
  • Familiarity with InnovateNow-scale workflows, or the appetite to reach them

InnovateNow is the goal-oriented company technology professionals across NC reach for when the cheap option finally breaks. Diverse perspectives make our technology work sharper, and we deliberately seek them out.

Here you earn $101,000 - $147,000 while a dedicated mentor helps you grow from senior into ownership, all wrapped in benefits worth keeping.

We re-validated this opening today; InnovateNow is still on the lookout.

The candidates who apply early at InnovateNow are the ones we remember, so be early.

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What we're looking for

  • Ansible
  • PagerDuty
  • Vault
  • Elasticsearch
  • Prometheus
  • Cultural Awareness
  • Delegation
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What you'll get

  • Employer-paid health premiums
  • Generous paid time off
  • Learning Stipend
  • Biometric screenings
  • Oil Changes
  • Competitive base salary
  • Compressed work week option
  • Frequent flyer program enrollment
  • Online course subscriptions

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