AWS DevOps Engineer
US Citizenship is required per government contract
100% remote
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 also capable of 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, reliability issues and define and maintain SLAs, SLOs.
• Automate provisioning, scaling, monitoring, recovery processes security scanning and vulnerability management with CI/CD.
• Ensure systems meets 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 is required and the ability to obtain a public trust clearance
• Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering or related field. Additional Four (4) expedience can be used in lieu of degree.
• 6+ years of prior relevant experience in IT infrastructure, with atleast 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, cutover support.
• Monitor deployment pipeline and build status, build troubleshooting, deployment automation, Helm chart maintenance, Dockerfile updates, environment config management, release coordination, 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).
• AWS Certified Solutions Architect or other specialty certifications.
System One not only serves as a valued partner for our clients, but we offer eligible employees health and welfare benefits coverage options including medical, dental, vision, spending accounts, life insurance, voluntary plans, as well as participation in a 401(k) plan.
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