DevOps Engineer

Overview We’re hiring a DevOps Engineer to build and secure cloud platforms with Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform & AWS CDK), GitOps, and multi‑account AWS. You’ll modernize legacy monoliths and accelerate microservices delivery while embedding security-by-default and reliability into everything we ship.   Key Responsibilities · IaC at scale: Design, build, and maintain reusable Terraform modules and CDK constructs for landing zones, VPC/networking, compute, databases, and security controls across multiple accounts/environments. · GitOps enablement: Implement and operate Github Actions for app and platform workloads; declarative config, drift detection, and progressive delivery (canary/blue‑green). · Cloud security & compliance: Enforce least‑privilege IAM, KMS encryption, Secrets Manager/Parameter Store, GuardDuty/Security Hub, CloudTrail/Lake; contribute to SOC 2/ISO27001/CIS hardening and policy‑as‑code. · Multi‑account architecture: Evolve AWS Organizations/Control Tower/SCPs, cross‑account roles, and shared services (observability, CI/CD, artifact registries, networking) with clear blast‑radius boundaries. · Modernization: Partner with teams to decompose monoliths via the strangler‑fig pattern, carve‑outs, and data migration strategies; define microservice standards (contracts, observability, release patterns). · CI/CD & reliability: Own build/test/release pipelines (GitHub Actions) quality gates, artifact/version promotion, rollbacks; · Observability & ops: Standardize metrics/logs/traces with CloudWatch/Datadog codify dashboards, alerts, and runbooks. Drive cost visibility and guardrails. · Developer experience: Ship self‑service templates, Backstage scaffolds/golden paths, and documentation that make the paved road the easiest road.   Preferred Qualifications · 5+ years in DevOps/Platform/SRE roles operating production systems. · Advanced Terraform and/or AWS CDK (TypeScript/Python); authored reusable modules/constructs and remote state strategies. · AWS depth: VPC design (subnets, routing, NAT, TGW), ALB/NLB, ECS/EKS/Lambda, RDS/Aurora, S3, CloudFront, Route 53, IAM, KMS; experience with Control Tower/Organizations/SCPs. · Containers & GitOps: Docker image build/hardening, Kubernetes and/or ECS operations. · Security‑first mindset: Secrets management, encryption, vulnerability scanning, image signing/SBOMs, Policy-as‑Code; · CI/CD & testing: Pipelines with unit/integration/e2e gates, environment promotion, and rollback strategies. · Operations: On‑call participation, incident management, and post‑incident improvement.   Nice to Haves · Backstage or internal developer platform (IDP) experience; golden‑path templates. · Network security (WAF, Zero‑Trust), data security (PII tokenization/DLP), or compliance program experience. · Additional policy‑as‑code tools: AWS Config conformance packs, CloudFormation Guard, tfsec/Checkov, Snyk. · Cost management: CUR/Cost Explorer, anomaly detection, unit economics/chargeback, Savings Plans/RI strategy. · Certifications: AWS DevOps/Solutions Architect, HashiCorp Terraform Associate, Kubernetes CKA/CKAD.