AWS DevOps Engineer
About The Position
We are seeking an AWS DevOps Engineer to design, automate, and optimize cloud infrastructure and CI/CD pipelines while ensuring applications are highly available, scalable, secure, and cost-efficient. The ideal candidate will have hands-on experience with AWS services, automation frameworks, and DevOps best practices, while also capable of mentoring junior engineers and driving technical excellence across teams. This role involves developing and managing CI/CD pipelines, supporting containerized workloads, implementing observability solutions, troubleshooting system performance, and ensuring systems meet security and compliance requirements. You will work closely with developers, architects, and QA to ensure smooth releases.
Requirements
- US Citizenship or Green Card Holder
- A Bachelor's degree or additional four (4) years of relevant experience in lieu of degree
- A minimum of Four (4) to Eight (8) years of prior relevant experience in IT infrastructure
- A minimum of THREE (3) years of experience in cloud engineering, DevOps, or infrastructure automation
- Expertise in AWS core services (EC2, S3, RDS, Lambda, ECS/EKS, CloudFront, Route 53, IAM, etc.)
- Hands-on experience with IaC (Terraform, CloudFormation, CDK)
- Proven ability to work autonomously and collaborate, mentor, help, and support other team members, as needed to solve complex operational and reliability problems
- Strong development background in Python, Bash, or similar
- Must be able to OBTAIN and MAINTAIN a Federal or DoD "PUBLIC TRUST"
- No visa sponsorship available for this position
Nice To Haves
- AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Professional (Highly desirable)
- Candidates with an ACTIVE PUBLIC TRUST or SUITABILITY are preferred
- AWS Certified Solutions Architect or other specialty certifications
Responsibilities
- Develop and manage CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, AWS CodePipeline, etc.)
- Support containerized workloads (Docker, ECS, EKS, Kubernetes)
- Enable automated testing, artifact management, and blue/green or canary deployments
- Implement observability, monitoring, and logging solutions using AWS CloudWatch, X-Ray, or third-party tools
- Troubleshoot system performance, latency, and reliability issues
- Define and maintain SLAs and SLOs
- Automate provisioning, scaling, monitoring, recovery processes, security scanning, and vulnerability management with CI/CD
- Ensure systems meet security, governance, and regulatory compliance requirements (HIPAA, FedRAMP, SOC 2, etc.) as applicable
- Implement IAM best practices, encryption strategies, and secure networking
- Work closely with developers, architects, and QA to ensure smooth releases
- Assist senior transition team in account handoff validation, CI/CD pipeline validation, GitHub Actions audit, CodeBuild job review, Argo sync check, artifact migration, secrets verification, deployment dry runs, rollback prep, and cutover support
- Monitor deployment pipeline and build status, build troubleshooting, deployment automation, Helm chart maintenance, Dockerfile updates, environment config management, release coordination, and developer support
- Take ownership of services like GitHub Actions, AWS CodeBuild, ArgoCD, Helm charts, Dockerfiles, secrets management, environment variables, deployment workflows, and Terraform templates
Benefits
- Medical, Rx, Dental & Vision Insurance
- Personal and Family Sick Time & Company Paid Holidays
- Parental Leave
- 401(k) Retirement Plan
- Group Term Life and Travel Assistance
- Voluntary Life and AD&D Insurance
- Health Savings Account, Health Care & Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts
- Transit and Parking Commuter Benefits
- Short-Term & Long-Term Disability
- Tuition Reimbursement, Personal Development, Certifications & Learning Opportunities
- Employee Referral Program
- Corporate Sponsored Events & Community Outreach
- Care.com annual membership
- Employee Assistance Program
- Supplemental Benefits via Corestream (Critical Care, Hospital Indemnity, Accident Insurance, Legal Assistance and ID theft protection, etc.)
- Position may be eligible for a discretionary variable incentive bonus
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Education Level
Associate degree
