Senior DevOps Engineer

ACA Group•Durham, NC

1d•Hybrid

About The Position

ACA Group is a leading provider of scalable compliance, risk, and technology solutions for financial services firms. The Senior Cloud Engineer is responsible for the architecture, design, implementation, and management of the AWS cloud infrastructure for ACA Group’s software, provisioned using the CDK. This role offers the opportunity to shape and scale the cloud foundation that powers ACA’s software products. You will work with a modern AWS-native stack, collaborate closely with developers and product teams, and influence architectural decisions impacting performance, reliability, and security across platforms. You will contribute to building well-architected infrastructure using IaC, automation, and DevOps best practices, with room for experimentation and continuous refinement.

Requirements

Bachelor’s Degree in a related field or equivalent work experience
Background in Software Development or Software Engineering
Five years of professional hands-on experience building and managing AWS infrastructure using IaC (either using the AWS CDK using TypeScript, Terraform, or CloudFormation)
Experience with scripting languages – Python (Boto3), Bash (AWS CLI), PowerShell
Experience designing and implementing CI/CD pipelines and GitOps workflows
Deep experience with observability platforms (New Relic, CloudWatch, Athena)
Experience containerizing workloads and working with Docker environments
Knowledge of Serverless architecture patterns and best practices
Experience with and understanding of Linux and Windows environments
Deep network architecture knowledge including VPN, Transit Gateway, Direct Connect
Experience with RDS, EC2, Fargate, S3, Glacier, Lambdas, ECS, EKS, Secrets, and CloudFront
Experience with project management and collaboration tools like Jira and Confluence

Nice To Haves

TypeScript (as a scripting language)
AWS certifications
Experience with Azure or Google Cloud
Experience with GitHub Actions and Octopus Deploy
Software Development experience using C#, TypeScript, Python, Java
Experience with Ruby or Golang

Responsibilities

Design, implement, and maintain secure and fault tolerant infrastructure and cloud software environments while applying fundamental principles of the AWS Well Architected Framework
Manage the immutable infrastructure via CDK written in TypeScript
Operate the development tools, such as IDEs, test environments, code repositories, artifact hosting, test runners, and automated release processes to enable developers
Oversee the deployment of servers, storage, databases, and other required infrastructure
Help design, oversee, and test the disaster recovery and business continuity plans
Participate on an agile team and work in the full development lifecycle
Perform analysis, design, development, unit testing, code reviews and deployment of cloud infrastructure
Participate in an on-call rotation
Make pragmatic design and architectural decisions with security in mind
Investigate and pinpoint defects, deficiencies, or service outages