Senior AWS DevOps Engineer

KBR•Edison Township, SD

About The Position

KBR is seeking a Senior AWS DevOps Engineer to design, automate, modernize, and operate secure, scalable, and cost-effective AWS cloud environments for mission-critical customer workloads. The role advances cloud modernization, DevOps automation, platform reliability, security compliance, operational efficiency, and cost optimization across regulated and hybrid-cloud environments. The engineer will work with enterprise and solution architects, cybersecurity teams, application teams, infrastructure engineers, and customer stakeholders to migrate and modernize legacy applications, build repeatable cloud platform patterns, improve CI/CD practices, and enable secure delivery of cloud-native services. This is a hands-on senior technical role that also involves mentoring engineers, establishing standards, documenting solutions, and communicating technical recommendations to leadership and customers. The position supports KBR's Mission Technology Solutions business, which is expected to spin off as the independent company Trinzic in January 2027. Employees who join that business before the spin-off will transition to Trinzic when the separation is complete without needing to reapply. The candidate must be a U.S. citizen. Equivalent education and/or experience will be considered.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent professional experience.
10+ years of progressive experience in cloud engineering, DevOps engineering, platform engineering, systems administration, infrastructure automation, enterprise architecture, or related technical roles.
5+ years of hands-on experience implementing DevOps practices, including CI/CD, automation, containerization, and infrastructure operations.
Strong hands-on experience designing, deploying, securing, and operating production workloads in AWS.
Experience with Infrastructure as Code using Terraform, AWS CDK, CloudFormation, or similar tools.
Experience with configuration management and automation tools such as Ansible, Chef, Puppet, Python, Bash/Shell, or PowerShell.
Experience building, maintaining, and troubleshooting CI/CD pipelines using GitLab, GitLab Runners, GitHub Actions, or comparable platforms.
Experience with Linux administration, scripting, troubleshooting, and operational support.
Working knowledge of AWS security, networking, IAM, logging, monitoring, and cloud governance practices.
Experience with container platforms such as Docker, Kubernetes, Amazon EKS, Amazon ECS, or Helm.
Experience operating in regulated, compliance-driven, or security-sensitive environments.
Experience with FedRAMP, FISMA, NIST-based controls, or comparable security frameworks.
Experience applying FinOps practices to improve cloud cost visibility, accountability, and optimization.
Demonstrated ability to troubleshoot complex technical issues across infrastructure, pipelines, networking, systems, and application deployment workflows.
Demonstrated ability to mentor engineers and work effectively across architecture, security, development, infrastructure, operations, and customer teams.
Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to document technical designs and present recommendations to leadership or customers.
Demonstrated experience using approved Generative AI tools or automation agents to improve developer efficiency, operational workflows, documentation, testing, or incident response.
Must hold an active AWS Professional-level certification at time of hire, such as AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional or AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Professional, or obtain an AWS Professional-level certification within 6 months of hire.
Must be a U.S. Citizen.

Nice To Haves

AWS Specialty certification, such as AWS Certified Security – Specialty, AWS Certified Advanced Networking – Specialty, AWS Certified Database – Specialty, or another relevant AWS Specialty certification.
HashiCorp Terraform Associate certification.
Experience engineering and deploying public sector, federal, or compliance-driven cloud solutions.
Experience with FedRAMP Moderate, FedRAMP High, FISMA, NIST 800-53, or comparable security and compliance frameworks.
Hands-on experience administering GitLab Runners and operating GitLab-based CI/CD at scale.
Experience with GitOps tools such as ArgoCD or Flux.
Experience with observability, logging, monitoring, vulnerability management, incident response, and disaster recovery tooling.
Experience modernizing legacy applications through rehosting, replatforming, refactoring, containerization, microservices adoption, or cloud-native service adoption.
Experience with hybrid-cloud architectures and integration between AWS and on-premises environments.
Experience with service mesh, WAF integrations, secure microservices delivery, or advanced Kubernetes platform patterns.
Master’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related technical field.

Responsibilities

Lead migration and modernization of legacy applications and infrastructure to AWS using secure, scalable, reliable, and cost-effective cloud-native patterns.
Design, deploy, and operate AWS environments for development, test, staging, and production workloads.
Align AWS platform designs with modernization roadmaps, business objectives, mission needs, security requirements, and governance standards in partnership with enterprise and solution architects.
Engineer solutions using AWS services and related cloud-native capabilities.
Support hybrid-cloud integration between AWS workloads and on-premises systems, networks, storage, identity services, security tooling, and enterprise services.
Design and maintain Infrastructure as Code; build reusable modules, templates, guardrails, and deployment patterns.
Automate provisioning, configuration, monitoring, auditing, patching, and deprovisioning of cloud infrastructure.
Design, operate, and improve CI/CD pipelines and workflows for automated build, testing, security scanning, artifact management, deployment, validation, environment promotion, and rollback.
Implement deployment practices including blue/green deployments, canary releases, staged rollouts, automated rollback, branch strategies, approval gates, and artifact management.
Support containerized workloads and implement or support GitOps practices where appropriate.
Establish secure platform guardrails for identity management, secrets protection, encryption, logging, auditing, vulnerability management, change control, and least-privilege access.
Operate AWS environments in alignment with security and compliance requirements, including FedRAMP, FISMA, NIST-based controls, and customer-specific policies.
Collaborate with cybersecurity teams, system owners, and auditors on evidence collection, control mapping, remediation tracking, and continuous compliance.
Build and maintain monitoring, logging, alerting, dashboards, runbooks, service health checks, and incident response procedures.
Troubleshoot complex issues across AWS infrastructure, Linux systems, networking, CI/CD pipelines, containers, and application deployment workflows.
Improve operational reliability through autoscaling, backup and recovery, disaster recovery planning, health checks, fault isolation, resilience engineering, and SLO/SLA support.
Apply FinOps principles and implement cost visibility, accountability, and optimization practices, including tagging, cost allocation, rightsizing, scheduling, storage optimization, reserved capacity, savings plans, anomaly detection, dashboards, and recurring reviews.
Use approved Generative AI tools and automation agents to improve engineering productivity, reduce manual work, accelerate documentation, improve pipelines and runbooks, and support incident response.
Follow responsible AI practices, including sensitive-data handling, prompt hygiene, secret redaction, validation of AI-generated outputs, and human review of production-impacting changes.
Mentor junior and mid-level engineers in AWS, DevOps, automation, cloud operations, security practices, FinOps, and engineering discipline.
Create and maintain technical documentation, architecture diagrams, operating procedures, implementation plans, platform standards, and customer-facing technical recommendations.