Senior AWS DevOps Engineer

Location: Chandler, AZ (Hybrid / Onsite)

Employment Type: Full-Time

Experience Required: 10 Years

Job Summary

We are seeking a highly experienced AWS DevOps Engineer to lead cloud infrastructure modernization, CI/CD automation, and platform engineering initiatives in an enterprise environment. The ideal candidate will possess deep expertise in AWS cloud services, Infrastructure as Code (Terraform and Ansible), Kubernetes/EKS, CI/CD pipeline automation, and Linux systems administration.

This role requires hands-on engineering experience building secure, scalable, and automated cloud platforms while supporting production reliability, deployment acceleration, and infrastructure governance.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and maintain scalable, secure, and highly available AWS cloud environments.
• Build and manage infrastructure using Terraform with modular architecture, remote state management, and automated provisioning.
• Develop and maintain Ansible playbooks and roles for configuration management, server automation, and application deployment.
• Architect and optimize CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, GitHub Actions, and Git-based workflows.
• Deploy and manage containerized applications using Docker, Kubernetes, and Amazon EKS.
• Implement GitOps deployment methodologies and automate release orchestration.
• Manage AWS services including EC2, S3, RDS, VPC, IAM, Route53, ELB/ALB/NLB, Auto Scaling, Lambda, CloudWatch, CloudFront, and API Gateway.
• Support enterprise Kubernetes environments including ingress management, RBAC, networking, and cluster operations.
• Configure and manage Nginx reverse proxy, SSL termination, and application routing.
• Establish monitoring, alerting, and observability using CloudWatch, Splunk, ELK, Nagios, AppDynamics, Prometheus, and Grafana.
• Automate operational workflows using Python and Shell scripting.
• Drive root cause analysis (RCA), incident remediation, and proactive platform improvements.
• Implement cloud security best practices including IAM governance, encryption, Linux hardening, and patch compliance.
• Partner with application, security, and infrastructure teams to deliver resilient cloud solutions.
• Optimize cloud usage and improve deployment efficiency through automation and continuous improvement initiatives.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or related field.
• 10 years of DevOps / Systems Engineering experience with strong cloud transformation exposure.
• 5 years of hands-on AWS engineering experience.
• Strong expertise in:
• Terraform (modules, workspaces, remote backend, state management)
• Ansible (playbooks, roles, inventory management)
• Jenkins CI/CD
• Docker & Kubernetes (Amazon EKS preferred)
• Linux Administration (RHEL/CentOS/Ubuntu)
• Experience with source control platforms (GitHub Enterprise, Bitbucket, GitFlow).
• Proficiency in Python, Bash, YAML, and REST API integrations.
• Experience supporting production environments and implementing automation at scale.