AWS DevOps Engineer

Job summary

Design and operate AWS infrastructure for production and non-production database environments, automating deployments and database operations while supporting reliability, security, and cost optimization. Build CI/CD pipelines and Infrastructure as Code, implement monitoring and high-availability and disaster-recovery strategies, and participate in incident response. The work uses AWS services and tools including Jenkins, Terraform, CloudWatch, Python, Bash, and Ansible, in a manufacturing domain.

Qualifications

• Python
• DevOps and CI/CD
• Kubernetes
• AWS DevOps and automation

Responsibilities

• Design, provision, and manage AWS infrastructure for production and non-production database environments.
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines for database deployments, schema migrations, and configuration management.
• Automate infrastructure provisioning with Terraform, CloudFormation, AWS CDK, or similar tools.
• Develop monitoring, alerting, and observability solutions for database health.
• Automate database backups, patching, failover, switchover, replication, and capacity planning with DBAs.
• Implement high-availability and disaster-recovery strategies across multi-AZ and multi-region AWS environments.
• Develop self-service tools, automation scripts, and runbooks for DBA teams.
• Manage database secrets, credentials, and access using AWS Secrets Manager, IAM roles, and least-privilege practices.
• Participate in on-call rotations, incident response, troubleshooting, and root cause analysis.
• Optimize AWS costs through right-sizing, Reserved Instances, and storage tiering.
• Maintain automation scripts, technical documentation, and architecture diagrams.
• Collaborate with security and compliance teams on encryption, auditing, and regulatory requirements.

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Contract length

Relocation