Guidehouse
Senior AWS DevOps Engineer
Base pay range:
$100,000.00/yr - $140,000.00/yr
What You Will Do
We are seeking a Senior AWS DevOps Engineer to design, automate, and optimize cloud infrastructure and CI/CD pipelines while ensuring applications are highly available, scalable, secure and cost‑efficient.
Hands‑on experience with AWS services, automation frameworks and DevOps best practices, while mentoring junior engineers and driving technical excellence across teams.
Develop and manage CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, AWS CodePipeline, etc.) and support containerized workloads (Docker, ECS, EKS, Kubernetes).
Enable automated testing, artifact management and blue/green or canary deployments.
Implement observability, monitoring and logging solutions using AWS CloudWatch, X‑Ray, or third‑party tools.
Troubleshoot system performance, latency and reliability issues and define and maintain SLAs and SLOs.
Automate provisioning, scaling, monitoring, recovery processes, security scanning and vulnerability management with CI/CD.
Ensure systems meet security, governance and regulatory compliance requirements (HIPAA, FedRAMP, SOC 2, etc.) as applicable.
Implement IAM best practices, encryption strategies and secure networking.
Work closely with developers, architects and QA to ensure smooth releases.
What You Will Need
US Citizenship or Green Card Holder.
Must obtain and maintain a Federal or DoD Public Trust; candidates must obtain an approved adjudication prior to onboarding.
Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering or related field, or a minimum of ten (10) years of experience in lieu of a degree.
A minimum of six (6) years of prior relevant experience in IT infrastructure and a minimum of three (3) years in cloud engineering, DevOps or infrastructure automation.
Expertise in AWS core services (EC2, S3, RDS, Lambda, ECS/EKS, CloudFront, Route 53, IAM, etc.).
Assist senior transition team in account handoff validation, CI/CD pipeline validation, GitHub Actions audit, CodeBuild job review, Argo sync check, artifact migration, secrets verification, deployment dry runs, rollback prep and cutover support.
Monitor deployment pipeline and build status; build troubleshooting, deployment automation, Helm chart maintenance, Dockerfile updates, environment config management, release coordination and developer support.
Ownership of services like GitHub Actions, AWS CodeBuild, ArgoCD, Helm charts, Dockerfiles, secrets management, environment variables, deployment workflows, Terraform templates.
Hands‑on experience with IaC (Terraform, CloudFormation, CDK).
Proven ability to work autonomously and collaborate, mentor, help and support other team members as needed to solve complex operational and reliability problems.
Strong development background in Python, Bash or similar.
What Would Be Nice To Have
AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Professional (Highly desirable).
Candidates with an active Public Trust or suitability are preferred.
AWS Certified Solutions Architect or other specialty certifications.
Seniority level Mid‑Senior level
Employment type Full‑time
Job function Information Technology
Industries Business Consulting and Services
Benefits
Medical insurance
Vision insurance
Paid maternity leave
401(k)
Paid paternity leave
Tuition assistance
Student loan assistance
Child care support
Pension plan
Disability insurance
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$100,000.00/yr - $140,000.00/yr
What You Will Do
We are seeking a Senior AWS DevOps Engineer to design, automate, and optimize cloud infrastructure and CI/CD pipelines while ensuring applications are highly available, scalable, secure and cost‑efficient.
Hands‑on experience with AWS services, automation frameworks and DevOps best practices, while mentoring junior engineers and driving technical excellence across teams.
Develop and manage CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, AWS CodePipeline, etc.) and support containerized workloads (Docker, ECS, EKS, Kubernetes).
Enable automated testing, artifact management and blue/green or canary deployments.
Implement observability, monitoring and logging solutions using AWS CloudWatch, X‑Ray, or third‑party tools.
Troubleshoot system performance, latency and reliability issues and define and maintain SLAs and SLOs.
Automate provisioning, scaling, monitoring, recovery processes, security scanning and vulnerability management with CI/CD.
Ensure systems meet security, governance and regulatory compliance requirements (HIPAA, FedRAMP, SOC 2, etc.) as applicable.
Implement IAM best practices, encryption strategies and secure networking.
Work closely with developers, architects and QA to ensure smooth releases.
What You Will Need
US Citizenship or Green Card Holder.
Must obtain and maintain a Federal or DoD Public Trust; candidates must obtain an approved adjudication prior to onboarding.
Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering or related field, or a minimum of ten (10) years of experience in lieu of a degree.
A minimum of six (6) years of prior relevant experience in IT infrastructure and a minimum of three (3) years in cloud engineering, DevOps or infrastructure automation.
Expertise in AWS core services (EC2, S3, RDS, Lambda, ECS/EKS, CloudFront, Route 53, IAM, etc.).
Assist senior transition team in account handoff validation, CI/CD pipeline validation, GitHub Actions audit, CodeBuild job review, Argo sync check, artifact migration, secrets verification, deployment dry runs, rollback prep and cutover support.
Monitor deployment pipeline and build status; build troubleshooting, deployment automation, Helm chart maintenance, Dockerfile updates, environment config management, release coordination and developer support.
Ownership of services like GitHub Actions, AWS CodeBuild, ArgoCD, Helm charts, Dockerfiles, secrets management, environment variables, deployment workflows, Terraform templates.
Hands‑on experience with IaC (Terraform, CloudFormation, CDK).
Proven ability to work autonomously and collaborate, mentor, help and support other team members as needed to solve complex operational and reliability problems.
Strong development background in Python, Bash or similar.
What Would Be Nice To Have
AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Professional (Highly desirable).
Candidates with an active Public Trust or suitability are preferred.
AWS Certified Solutions Architect or other specialty certifications.
Seniority level Mid‑Senior level
Employment type Full‑time
Job function Information Technology
Industries Business Consulting and Services
Benefits
Medical insurance
Vision insurance
Paid maternity leave
401(k)
Paid paternity leave
Tuition assistance
Student loan assistance
Child care support
Pension plan
Disability insurance
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