DevOps / Infrastructure Engineer

Job summary

This hands-on DevOps/SRE role operates and modernizes a multi-region AWS platform for scientific R&D software, balancing production reliability with infrastructure improvements in a small team. The work includes expanding Terraform while maintaining CloudFormation, owning GitHub Actions and Jenkins pipelines, operating ECS/Fargate and Aurora MySQL, and improving incident response, security, compliance, observability, and cloud costs. The role also supports customer-managed AWS deployments and builds automation with Bash, Python, and AI-assisted engineering tools.

Qualifications

• At least 5 years of DevOps, infrastructure, or SRE experience; 7+ years preferred
• Terraform expertise, including modules, state operations, multi-environment and multi-region layouts, imports, and drift diagnosis
• Strong AWS knowledge across networking, IAM, ECS/Fargate, Aurora MySQL, load balancers, storage, secrets, monitoring, Lambda, and Batch
• Ability to author and deploy CloudFormation templates
• Experience building and maintaining GitHub Actions and Jenkins pipelines
• Bash and Python skills for automation and tooling
• Aurora MySQL operations experience, including scaling, snapshots, restores, failover, connection behavior, and slow-query analysis
• Disciplined incident response, rollback planning, and written incident reviews
• Clear written English and strong documentation habits
• Practical experience using coding agents and building automated checks, with human review of production changes

Responsibilities

• Expand Terraform coverage and bring existing resources under code management
• Maintain and progressively modernize CloudFormation infrastructure
• Own and improve GitHub Actions and Jenkins pipelines and environment automation
• Monitor and troubleshoot infrastructure, databases, containers, and networking
• Handle incidents, improve observability, and participate in on-call coverage
• Optimize cloud costs through right-sizing, capacity planning, and resource lifecycle management
• Support deployments in customer-managed AWS environments and document infrastructure and security practices
• Remediate infrastructure and dependency vulnerabilities and support audits and compliance
• Build tools for environment management, deployments, and operational visibility
• Support internal engineering teams and document operational procedures

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