AWS DevOps Engineer

Job summary

Designs, automates, secures, and operates AWS environments supporting mission-critical workloads, while helping modernize applications and deliver reliable cloud services. The role develops Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD pipelines, and containerized workloads; implements security and compliance controls; and supports monitoring, incident response, disaster recovery, and FinOps. It collaborates across engineering, cybersecurity, and application teams and provides technical guidance to less-experienced engineers.

Benefits

Qualifications

• At least six years of relevant professional experience in cloud engineering, DevOps, platform engineering, systems administration, software development, infrastructure automation, cybersecurity engineering, or a related field.
• Hands-on experience designing, deploying, securing, and operating AWS environments for production, regulated, security-sensitive, or mission-critical workloads.
• Experience migrating, modernizing, or supporting applications and infrastructure in AWS.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code, scripting or programming, Linux, Git, CI/CD, automated testing and deployment, and container technologies.
• Working knowledge of AWS networking, identity and access management, encryption, secrets management, logging, monitoring, and cloud security.
• Familiarity with FedRAMP, FISMA, NIST SP 800-53, or a comparable security framework.
• Experience with monitoring, incident response, operational runbooks, backup and recovery, or disaster recovery.
• Familiarity with cloud cost management, resource tagging, rightsizing, or FinOps principles.
• Ability to independently resolve complex technical issues, document findings, recommend corrective actions, and escalate material risks.
• Ability to review technical work and guide less-experienced engineers.
• Strong written, verbal, and cross-functional collaboration skills.
• U.S. citizenship is required.
• Must hold at least one active AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate, AWS Certified Developer - Associate, or AWS Certified CloudOps Engineer - Associate certification at hire.
• Must obtain at least one AWS Professional-level certification within 12 months of starting if not already held at hire.
• Must be able to obtain and maintain a National Agency Check and background investigation for government facility and account access.

Responsibilities

• Design, deploy, secure, maintain, and operate AWS cloud environments.
• Assess applications and infrastructure and recommend migration and modernization approaches.
• Develop reusable Infrastructure as Code modules and deployment patterns.
• Automate infrastructure and operational tasks.
• Design, maintain, and troubleshoot CI/CD pipelines and automate testing, scanning, deployment, validation, promotion, and rollback.
• Design and support containerized workloads using Docker, Kubernetes, and related AWS services.
• Implement cloud security controls and support compliance requirements.
• Collaborate on security control implementation, compliance evidence, remediation, and continuous monitoring.
• Develop monitoring, alerting, dashboards, runbooks, and incident-response procedures.
• Troubleshoot cloud infrastructure, Linux, networking, pipeline, container, and application deployment issues.
• Support incident response, root-cause analysis, backup and recovery, resilience, and disaster recovery.
• Apply FinOps practices to improve cloud cost efficiency.
• Maintain technical designs, architecture diagrams, configuration records, implementation plans, standards, and procedures.
• Participate in code reviews, design reviews, technical planning, and continuous improvement.
• Provide technical guidance and knowledge sharing to less-experienced engineers.

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