Senior AWS DevOps Engineer
About The Position
We are seeking a Senior 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. This role requires 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. The engineer will develop and manage CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, AWS CodePipeline etc.) and support containerized workloads (Docker, ECS, EKS, Kubernetes). They will enable automated testing, artifact management, and blue/green or canary deployments. The role involves implementing observability, monitoring and logging solutions using AWS CloudWatch, X-Ray or third-party tools, and troubleshooting system performance, latency, and reliability issues. Defining and maintaining SLAs and SLOs is also a key responsibility. Automation of provisioning, scaling, monitoring, recovery processes, security scanning, and vulnerability management with CI/CD is expected. The engineer must ensure systems meet security, governance, and regulatory compliance requirements (HIPAA, FedRAMP, SOC 2 etc.) as applicable, and implement IAM best practices, encryption strategies, and secure networking. Close collaboration with developers, architects, and QA to ensure smooth releases is essential.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering or related field. Additional Four (4) years of experience can be used in lieu of degree.
- Minimum Six (6) years of prior relevant experience in IT infrastructure.
- At least Five (5) years 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.
- Candidates must be legally authorized to work in the United States without the need for employer sponsorship.
- Due to the nature of this role and associated government clearance requirements, candidates must be U.S. citizens or lawful permanent residents (Green Card holders) to be considered.
- Must be able to OBTAIN and MAINTAIN a Federal or DoD "PUBLIC TRUST".
- Candidates must obtain approved adjudication of their PUBLIC TRUST prior to onboarding with Guidehouse.
Nice To Haves
- AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Professional (Highly desirable).
- AWS Certified Solutions Architect or other specialty certifications.
- Candidates with an ACTIVE PUBLIC TRUST or SUITABILITY are preferred.
Responsibilities
- Design, automate and optimize cloud infrastructure and CI/CD pipelines.
- Ensure applications are highly available, scalable, secure and cost-efficient.
- 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, reliability issues.
- Define and maintain SLAs, 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.
- Mentor junior engineers and drive technical excellence across teams.
- 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, cutover support.
- Monitor deployment pipeline and build status, build troubleshooting, deployment automation, Helm chart maintenance, Dockerfile updates, environment config management, release coordination, developer support.
- Take ownership of services like GitHub Actions, AWS CodeBuild, ArgoCD, Helm charts, Dockerfiles, secrets management, environment variables, deployment workflows, 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.)
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
