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Job Title: Senior AWS DevOps Engineer
Role Summary: Lead design, implementation, and maintenance of cloud-native infrastructure on AWS. Own end-to-end CI/CD pipelines, IaC, and production operations for a SaaS product. Drive automation, scalability, and security across the platform.
Expectations:
- Own delivery of architecture and tooling with minimal supervision.
- Demonstrate deep expertise in AWS, Kubernetes, and infrastructure-as-code.
- Collaborate cross‑functionally to define and iterate best practices.
- Exhibit strong problem‑solving, critical thinking, and proactive risk management.
Key Responsibilities:
- Design, build and operate scalable, secure AWS environments using Terraform.
- Develop and maintain GitOps workflows with Argo CD, Octopus or equivalent.
- Provision, deploy and manage EKS clusters and Kubernetes workloads.
- Build, maintain, and optimize CI/CD pipelines for continuous integration and delivery.
- Implement monitoring, logging, and alerting (Prometheus, CloudWatch, ELK).
- Apply cloud security controls, IAM policies, and compliance frameworks.
- Create and update technical documentation and runbooks.
- Participate in on‑call rotations and incident response.
- Mentor and guide junior team members on DevOps practices.
Required Skills:
- Advanced AWS DevOps (EC2, ECS/EKS, Lambda, S3, RDS, VPC, IAM).
- Terraform IaC with modules and state management.
- Kubernetes fundamentals: deployment, services, ingress, RBAC, Helm.
- CI/CD tooling: Jenkins, GitLab CI, GitHub Actions, Argo CD, Octopus Deploy.
- GitOps principles and experience.
- Containerization (Docker) and orchestrator monitoring.
- Scripting/automation (Python, Bash, Go).
- Cloud security best practices, network segmentation, encryption.
- Monitoring & observability (Prometheus, Grafana, CloudWatch).
- Collaboration in high‑velocity startup environments.
Required Education & Certifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field (or equivalent professional experience).
- AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Professional (preferred).
- AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate/Professional (preferred).
- Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) or Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD) (preferred).
- Terraform Associate certification (preferred).
Cincinnati, United states
Remote
Senior
09-02-2026