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19 days ago
Remote friendly (Washington, DC)
United States
IT
Key Responsibilities
- Design, implement, and manage scalable, highly available, and secure AWS infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) principles
- Develop, implement, maintain, and optimize CI/CD pipelines and workflows to automate software delivery (Jenkins, AWS CodePipeline, GitLab CI)
- Collaborate with software development and operations teams to ensure seamless integration, smooth deployments, and production issue troubleshooting
- Implement and manage containerization and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes; Amazon ECS/EKS)
- Implement monitoring, logging, and alerting (AWS CloudWatch, Prometheus, Grafana)
- Integrate security best practices across the development lifecycle (IAM roles/policies, robust security controls)
- Troubleshoot and resolve complex system issues; perform root cause analysis
- Identify process gaps, recommend improvements, and execute solutions to boost efficiency
- Document procedures, configurations, and best practices for cloud deployments
- Evaluate new technologies/vendor products to improve architecture and processes
- Manage disaster recovery design and deployment strategies across regions

Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, IT, or related field
- 1–3 years hands-on AWS environment provisioning/operations
- Proficiency in EC2, S3, RDS, VPC, IAM, Lambda, CloudFormation, CloudWatch, SQS
- IaC experience (Terraform, Ansible, or AWS CloudFormation)
- Scripting/programming skills (Python, Bash/Shell, Ruby)
- DevOps experience (CI/CD, infrastructure management, logging, compliance security scanning)
- CI/CD tools (Jenkins, GitLab CI, AWS CodePipeline) and Git/GitHub
- Containerization/orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes)
- Networking concepts (VPN, VPCs, DNS, load balancing)
- Linux/Unix system administration
- Strong problem-solving, communication, and cross-functional collaboration

Preferred Certifications
- AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Professional; AWS Certified Solutions Architect (Associate/Professional)
- CKA or related Kubernetes certification
- CompTIA Security+ or other relevant security certifications

Benefits (if applicable)
- Health insurance, unlimited paid time off, parental leave, 401k matching, incentive compensation

Application Instructions
- Contact 202-524-8238 (8:00 AM–5:30 PM ET, Mon–Fri) for assistance regarding compensation/benefits details.