Aws Devops Engineer

Description:

AWS DevOps Engineer

About the Role

We’re looking for an AES DevOps Engineer to support the design, automation, and operation of our cloud runtime platforms. You’ll contribute to infrastructure-as-code, CI​/​CD, observability, and reliability efforts while learning from senior engineers and collaborating with application teams, Tech Risk, and vendor platforms.

What you will do

· Support the design and operation of AWS infrastructure (EC2, VPC, IAM, RDS, Lambda​/​ECS​/​EKS) using CloudFormation and AWS CDK.

· Assist in CI​/​CD pipeline development and maintenance (GitLab CI​/​Jenkins​/​GitHub Actions​/​AWS CodePipeline).

· Contribute to observability efforts including metrics, logs, traces, and alerting systems.

· Participate in incident response and post-incident reviews; help reduce MTTR through automation.

· Automate operational tasks using TypeScript and scripting languages; codify ops playbooks.

· Help implement security controls including secrets management, network segmentation, and firewall policies.

· Collaborate on cost optimization strategies and performance tuning.

· Learn and apply best practices across Dev, Runtime, and vendor teams.

· Support Kafka–based eventing and MongoDB–backed services as needed.

Basic qualifications

· 2–4 years’ experience in DevOps​/​SRE​/​Platform Engineering with production AWS experience.

· Experience with CloudFormation and AWS CDK; solid Linux fundamentals and shell scripting.

· CI​/​CD pipeline exposure (GitLab CI, Jenkins, GitHub Actions, or CodePipeline).

· Containers and orchestration (Docker, EKS​/​ECS); understanding of progressive delivery.

· Proficiency in TypeScript for automation.

· Solid understanding of networking and security (VPCs, routing, security groups, firewalls).

· Strong communication skills and ability to work cross-functionally.

· AWS certification preferred (e.g., AWS DevOps Engineer, AWS Solutions Architect).

Preferred qualifications

· GitOps (Argo CD​/​Flux) and service mesh fundamentals; APM​/​RUM (Dynatrace​/​New Relic).

· Operating Kafka and MongoDB in production; experience with microservices & distributed systems.

· Experience in regulated environments (financial services), with audit and control practices.

· PagerDuty administration and on-call program exposure; cost governance​/​FinOps familiarity.

· Proficiency in Python (or Bash​/​Go) for automation.

· Familiarity with observability stacks (CloudWatch, Prometheus​/​Grafana, Splunk​/​ELK, Datadog) and alerting practices.