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June 30, 2026
Remote friendly (Washington, DC)
United States
IT
Responsibilities:
- Design, implement, and manage scalable, highly available, secure AWS infrastructure using IaC.
- Build and optimize CI/CD pipelines/workflows (Jenkins, AWS CodePipeline, GitLab CI) to automate software delivery.
- Collaborate with engineering/ops for deployments, production troubleshooting, and adaptation to changing requirements.
- Manage containerization and orchestration with Docker and Kubernetes (Amazon ECS/EKS).
- Implement monitoring, logging, and alerting (AWS CloudWatch, Prometheus, Grafana).
- Integrate security best practices across the SDLC (IAM roles/policies and robust security controls).
- Troubleshoot complex system issues; perform root-cause analysis to prevent recurrence.
- Identify process gaps, recommend improvements, and execute efficiency enhancements.
- Document cloud deployment procedures, configurations, and best practices.
- Evaluate new technologies/vendors to improve architecture and processes.
- Design and deploy disaster recovery strategies across regions.

Requirements:
- Bachelor’s degree in CS/IT or related.
- 1–3 years hands-on AWS provisioning/operations.
- Proficiency in EC2, S3, RDS, VPC, IAM, Lambda, CloudFormation, CloudWatch, SQS.
- IaC experience: Terraform, Ansible, or AWS CloudFormation.
- Scripting/programming: Python, Bash/Shell, or Ruby.
- Strong DevOps/CI/CD and security scanning/compliance experience.
- CI/CD tools (Jenkins, GitLab CI, AWS CodePipeline) + Git/GitHub.
- Docker/Kubernetes experience.
- Networking knowledge (VPN, VPCs, DNS, load balancing).
- Linux/Unix admin background.

Preferred Certifications:
- AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Professional; AWS Solutions Architect (Associate/Professional).
- CKA or related Kubernetes certification.
- CompTIA Security+ or equivalent.

Benefits (as stated):
- Health insurance, unlimited paid time off, parental leave, 401(k) matching, and other benefits.