AWS DevOps Engineer

The Consortium•Baltimore, MD

1d•Hybrid

About The Position

Our client is looking for a sharp, driven DevOps Engineer to help build, optimize, and secure the infrastructure. This isn't a maintenance role. This is a foundational build opportunity, where you'll help to shape CI/CD pipelines, scale AWS infrastructure, drive automation and leave your fingerprints on a platform. You'll join an established DevOps team and bring real influence to how we build, scale, and operate — your expertise will shape decisions, not just execute them. You'll work across AWS, CI/CD, security, and observability, genuine full-spectrum DevOps work. You'll partner closely with development, architecture, and QA teams in a flat, collaborative environment where your voice carries weight. You'll help drive SOC 2 Type 2 and ISO 27001 compliance, meaningful, high-stakes work that matters. You'll join a company that has thrived for 25+ years with the agility and mission-focus most organizations lose along the way. As the DevOps Engineer you work with the infrastructure, software development, and data engineering teams. The primary focus of the DevOps Engineer will be to help the team build, maintain, and operate infrastructure to support our SaaS business. Further, you will also help to lay the foundation for creating processes and automation that will speed up product testing and deployment going forward. Job Mission: To design, implement, and optimize DevOps infrastructure and processes that enable faster product testing, deployment, and operational scalability, ensuring the reliable delivery of the platform to their customers through efficient, scalable and cost-effective methodologies.

Requirements

4+ years of experience as a DevOps Engineer, specifically using AWS
Experience working in a secure environment
Bachelor's degree in computer science or similar technical discipline
Experience deploying developer code to AWS
Experience with AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK) or equivalent tool (i.e., Terraform)
Familiarity with integrated DevOps operations and the technical aspects of managing end-to-end pipelines and infrastructure
Knowledge of automation tools and methods for process automation and automated testing
Solid understanding of automation and implementing automation processes
In-depth networking experience with a focus on security
Familiarity with source control (Bitbucket, GitLab, etc.) and Pipelines
Experience with relational database technologies – Ideally MySQL Aurora RDS
Working knowledge of traditional client/server architecture
Ability to troubleshoot distributed systems to diagnose the root cause and help with a solution for the underlying issue
Excellent communication skills
Ability to work independently with little assistance
Ability to be collaborative and work with teammates to implement comprehensive tooling to create and maintain dev/product/local environments

Nice To Haves

Familiarity with machine learning frameworks (like Keras or PyTorch) and libraries (like scikit-learn)
Familiarity with Mathematical Optimization
Optional: Jinja templating
Optional: Rust, Java, C++, R, SAS, Stata, Matlab, JMP

Responsibilities

Manage and Optimize CI/CD Pipelines - Build, maintain, and expand continuous integration and deployment pipelines to accelerate and improve product testing, development, and deployment.
Monitor performance – Proactively build out monitoring and alerting to measure and analyze system performance, assist engineering teams in trouble shooting, and discover opportunities for improvement.
Administer and Scale AWS Infrastructure - Maintain the existing AWS environment, provide expertise on multi-environment AWS infrastructure, and evaluate cloud services to ensure scalability, security, and cost efficiency.
Automate and Streamline Processes - Design and implement automated processes and testing workflows, system monitoring solutions, and developmental workflows, striving for continuous improvement in efficiency and performance.
Manage 3rd Party DevOps Tools – Administer and maintain a suite of third-party DevOps tools, including performance reporting, vulnerability scanning, and SIEM systems, ensuring reliable integrations, proper access controls, and up-to-date configurations and documentation.
Champion Security and Compliance – Ensure infrastructure and systems align with SOC 2 Type 2 and ISO 27001:2022 requirements by maintaining audit logging, access controls, and data encryption standards, while supporting annual compliance assessments and audits.
Infrastructure Management: Administer AWS environments, ensuring multi-environment configurations align with best practices and supporting performance testing and improvement initiatives.
Automation and CI/CD: Create and optimize CI/CD pipelines to streamline testing and deployment, implement automated processes, and reduce manual intervention wherever possible.
Monitoring and Resilience: Maintain monitoring and reporting solutions, conduct application resiliency testing alongside QA, and proactively resolve incidents with root cause analysis.
Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner with developers, architecture, QA, and project management teams to break tasks into actionable units, support releases, and foster seamless integration across project functions.
Work to create, maintain, and expand upon CI/CD pipelines in order to increase the speed of product testing and deployment.
Strive for continuous improvement and build out continuous integration, continuous development, and continuous deployment pipelines (CI/CD).
Design and implement development, test, release, update, and support processes for DevOps operations.
Encourage and implement automated processes wherever possible.
Maintain and administer the existing AWS environment.
Provide expertise on best practices for creating and maintaining multi-environment AWS infrastructure (AWS Organization).
Proactively evaluate the newest AWS and cloud infrastructure services, weighing benefits against associated costs to recommend opportunities for cost efficiency, resiliency, and performance improvements.
Lead efforts in implementing, maintaining, and continuously improving consolidated system monitoring and reporting solutions.
Partner with QA to conduct application resiliency testing, gauge readiness for software releases, and support performance testing and improvement initiatives.
Manage incident response and perform root cause analysis to resolve issues and prevent recurrence.
Support initiatives for security and compliance in alignment with SOC 2 Type 2 and ISO 27001:2022 requirements.
Document and communicate proposed solutions, including technical requirements, resource needs, and timelines.
Collaborate with cross-functional teams — including developers, architecture, QA, and other departments — during the release process to ensure smooth, coordinated deployments.
Work with project management to break larger projects into smaller, actionable tasks with well-defined estimates.