Contract Role - DevSecOps / AWS Platform Engineer

WorldVia•Roswell, GA

14h•Remote

About The Position

WorldVia is seeking a hands-on DevSecOps / AWS Platform Engineer for a six-month contract engagement, approximately 40 hours per week, with potential extension or conversion to permanent employment. The position is remote within the United States, with substantial overlap with Eastern Time business hours, and is expected to start as soon as possible. The engineer will strengthen and modernize cloud infrastructure, application security, and development operations, while helping migrate business-critical legacy systems into AWS. Working with engineering and technology leadership, the person will have substantial autonomy to recommend solutions, make technical decisions, write code, automate infrastructure, and deliver working systems. This is an implementation-focused engineering role rather than a purely advisory or architectural position. The work includes evaluating and improving application and AWS security; implementing automated security monitoring, vulnerability management, and incident response; and integrating security practices into development workflows. The engineer will lead the technical migration of legacy production workloads into WorldVia-managed AWS environments, design secure, reliable, cost-effective infrastructure, and implement infrastructure as code, backup and recovery, monitoring, and operational automation. They will coordinate migration testing, validation, cutover, and stabilization with internal stakeholders. Additional responsibilities include improving CI/CD pipelines, deployment automation, and environment management; establishing practical infrastructure standards and reusable deployment patterns; supporting infrastructure for applications that incorporate generative AI and agentic workflows; and documenting architecture, operating procedures, and technical decisions so WorldVia's internal team can maintain and evolve the environment. WorldVia is investing in its technology organization and building long-term internal capabilities. The successful candidate can own initiatives from design through production, work directly with decision-makers, influence the architecture and operational foundations of the platform, and potentially transition into a permanent role. Success means improving security, modernizing AWS infrastructure, advancing or completing priority migrations, and establishing maintainable, documented deployment and operating practices.

Requirements

At least 4 years of hands-on experience in DevOps, cloud infrastructure, platform engineering, SRE, or a related discipline.
Strong AWS expertise, including networking, compute, databases, IAM, security, monitoring, and infrastructure architecture.
Demonstrated experience migrating production workloads from legacy or third-party environments into AWS; experience with Windows-based applications is preferred.
Practical experience implementing application and cloud security controls.
Proficiency with infrastructure as code, such as Terraform or AWS CDK.
Experience with GitHub Actions or comparable CI/CD systems, automated security scanning, and deployment automation.
Strong understanding of backup, disaster recovery, production monitoring, and incident response.
Ability to work independently, communicate clearly, and collaborate with a small, fast-moving engineering team.

Nice To Haves

Experience with multi-tenant SaaS platforms.
Experience with Amazon Bedrock, AgentCore, or other AI infrastructure.
Experience with secure development practices involving AI coding tools.
Experience migrating financial applications or legacy enterprise systems.
PCI DSS or SOC 2 readiness experience.
Experience balancing security, reliability, infrastructure costs, and rapid product delivery.

Responsibilities

Evaluate and strengthen application and AWS security, including identity, authorization, data protection, and infrastructure controls.
Implement automated security monitoring, vulnerability management, and incident response capabilities.
Integrate security practices and automated safeguards into development workflows.
Lead technical migrations of legacy production workloads into WorldVia-managed AWS environments.
Design secure, reliable, cost-effective AWS infrastructure for modern applications and traditional business systems.
Implement infrastructure as code, backup and recovery, monitoring, and operational automation.
Coordinate migration testing, validation, cutover, and stabilization with internal stakeholders.
Improve CI/CD pipelines, deployment automation, and environment management.
Establish practical infrastructure standards and reusable deployment patterns.
Support cloud infrastructure for applications incorporating generative AI and agentic workflows.
Document architecture, operating procedures, and technical decisions for the internal team's ongoing operation and maintenance.