Contract Role - DevSecOps / AWS Platform Engineer

Job summary

The DevSecOps / AWS Platform Engineer strengthens cloud and application security while migrating business-critical legacy systems into AWS. The role involves designing and automating secure infrastructure, improving CI/CD pipelines and security monitoring, and coordinating migration testing, cutovers, and stabilization. The engineer also documents maintainable operating practices and supports infrastructure for applications using generative AI and agentic workflows.

Qualifications

• At least four years of hands-on experience in DevOps, cloud infrastructure, platform engineering, site reliability engineering, or a related discipline.
• Strong AWS expertise across networking, compute, databases, IAM, security, monitoring, and infrastructure architecture.
• Experience migrating production workloads from legacy or third-party environments into AWS; Windows-based application experience is preferred.
• Practical experience implementing application and cloud security controls.
• Proficiency with infrastructure as code tools such as Terraform or AWS CDK.
• Experience with GitHub Actions or comparable CI/CD systems, security scanning, and deployment automation.
• Strong understanding of backup, disaster recovery, production monitoring, and incident response.
• Ability to work independently, communicate clearly, and collaborate with a small engineering team.
• Experience with multi-tenant SaaS platforms, AI infrastructure, PCI DSS or SOC 2 readiness, or financial and legacy enterprise migrations is preferred.

Responsibilities

• Evaluate and strengthen application and AWS security, including identity, authorization, data protection, and infrastructure controls.
• Implement automated security monitoring, vulnerability management, and incident response capabilities.
• Lead migration of legacy production workloads into AWS environments.
• Design secure, reliable, and cost-effective AWS infrastructure for modern applications and traditional business systems.
• Implement infrastructure as code, backup and recovery, monitoring, and operational automation.
• Coordinate migration testing, validation, cutover, and stabilization with internal stakeholders.
• Improve CI/CD pipelines, deployment automation, and environment management.
• Integrate security scanning and automated safeguards into development workflows.
• Establish infrastructure standards and reusable deployment patterns.
• Document architecture, operating procedures, and technical decisions for internal teams.

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