AWS DevOps Engineer Job Description Template

We are looking to hire an experienced and enthusiastic AWS DevOps Engineer to provide hands-on development and support for all aspects of our AWS infrastructure and CI/CD environment. The primary responsibility of this role will be to build a scalable AI platform that includes configurable workflows, flexible APIs, and feature-rich UIs. This role will involve a mix of independent work and collaboration with engineering teams focused on AWS infrastructure and automation.

Typical Duties and Responsibilities

• Deploy, maintain, and manage an AWS production system
• Design, maintain, and manage automation of operational processes
• Ensure AWS systems are available, reliable, secure, and scalable
• Manage the creation, release, and configuration of production systems
• Provide primary support for cloud and enterprise deployments
• Lead teams in charge of designing, testing, and deploying changes to existing software
• Analyze manual processes to identify those that can be automated
• Maintain and improve the organization’s cloud infrastructure
• Troubleshoot issues across multiple application domains and platforms
• Collaborate with the core engineering team to lead the organization’s platform security efforts
• Develop policies and standards for the CI/CD environment
• Evaluate new technologies and products that can enhance or replace existing enterprise systems
• Recommend architecture and process improvements

Education

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, or a related field

Required Skills and Experience

• 3+ years of experience in AWS environment operation and management
• Experience building AWS environments
• Experience using infrastructure as code
• Experience developing code in at least one high-level programming language
• Experience with AWS services such as ECS, EC2, S3, RDS, VPC, IAM, QuickSight, CloudFront, SQS, ElastiCache, and/or Lambda
• Experience with multi-tier architectures
• Experience creating automated infrastructures
• Experience in CI/CD
• Knowledge of operating system administration
• Knowledge of compliance requirements and securing AWS environments
• Strong written and verbal communication skills

Preferred Qualifications

• Knowledge of AWS disaster recovery design and deployment