Job Details

Senior AWS DevOps Engineer

Base pay range: $100,000.00/yr - $140,000.00/yr

What You Will Do

• 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.
• Hands‑on experience with AWS services, automation frameworks and DevOps best practices, while mentoring junior engineers and driving technical excellence across teams.
• Develop and manage CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, AWS CodePipeline, etc.) and 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 and reliability issues and define and maintain SLAs and 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.

What You Will Need

• US Citizenship or Green Card Holder.
• Must obtain and maintain a Federal or DoD Public Trust; candidates must obtain an approved adjudication prior to onboarding.
• Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering or related field, or a minimum of ten (10) years of experience in lieu of a degree.
• A minimum of six (6) years of prior relevant experience in IT infrastructure and a minimum of three (3) years in cloud engineering, DevOps or infrastructure automation.
• Expertise in AWS core services (EC2, S3, RDS, Lambda, ECS/EKS, CloudFront, Route 53, IAM, etc.).
• 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 and cutover support.
• Monitor deployment pipeline and build status; build troubleshooting, deployment automation, Helm chart maintenance, Dockerfile updates, environment config management, release coordination and developer support.
• Ownership of services like GitHub Actions, AWS CodeBuild, ArgoCD, Helm charts, Dockerfiles, secrets management, environment variables, deployment workflows, Terraform templates.
• 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.

What Would Be Nice To Have

• AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Professional (Highly desirable).
• Candidates with an active Public Trust or suitability are preferred.
• AWS Certified Solutions Architect or other specialty certifications.

Seniority level

Mid‑Senior level

Employment type

Full‑time

Job function

Information Technology

Industries

Business Consulting and Services

Benefits

• Medical insurance
• Vision insurance
• Paid maternity leave
• 401(k)
• Paid paternity leave
• Tuition assistance
• Student loan assistance
• Child care support
• Pension plan
• Disability insurance