Senior AWS DevOps Engineer
Core
Design, automate, modernize, and operate secure, scalable, and cost-effective AWS cloud environments supporting mission-critical customer workloads in regulated and hybrid-cloud settings.
Role type
Senior hands-on IC AWS DevOps Engineer
Builds
Cloud-native platforms, CI/CD pipelines, and automated infrastructure for enterprise and customer workloads
Domain
Cloud Engineering / DevOps / AWS / Regulated Industries
Deliverable
production ML models | product features | infrastructure
Required skills
AWS cloud architecture, Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CDK, CloudFormation), CI/CD pipeline design, container orchestration (Kubernetes, ECS), Linux administration, scripting (Python, Bash, PowerShell), security compliance (FedRAMP, FISMA, NIST), FinOps, mentoring
Preferred skills
AWS Specialty certifications, HashiCorp Terraform Associate certification
Technologies
AWS (S3, EC2, EKS, ECS, Lambda, Aurora, IAM, VPC, CloudWatch, Route 53, RDS, API Gateway, SNS/SQS), Terraform, AWS CDK, CloudFormation, Ansible, Chef, Puppet, GitLab, GitHub Actions, Docker, Kubernetes, Helm, ArgoCD, Flux
Responsibilities
Lead migration and modernization of legacy applications to AWS; Design and operate multi-environment AWS infrastructure; Engineer solutions using specific AWS services; Develop and maintain Infrastructure as Code modules; Automate provisioning, configuration, and deprovisioning; Build and optimize CI/CD pipelines; Implement containerized workload strategies; Establish secure platform guardrails and compliance controls; Build monitoring, logging, and incident response procedures; Troubleshoot complex infrastructure and deployment issues; Apply FinOps principles for cost optimization; Mentor junior engineers; Create technical documentation and architecture diagrams
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC with mentorship responsibilities