DevOps Engineer III (Remote)

Job Title: DevOps Engineer -III (Remote)

Location: Madison WI

Duration: 03 Months with the potential to extend

Job Description:

The Cloud Operations and Security Monitoring Engineer are responsible for the day to day reliability performance and security visibility of the organizations cloud environment with a primary focus on Amazon Web Services (AWS). This role ensures cloud services are resilient well governed cost efficient and continuously monitored for security threats and operational risks. The position partners closely with application and security teams to maintain stable operations while improving automation observability and incident response capabilities.

Key Responsibilities:

Cloud Operations

• Administer and support AWS infrastructure including compute storage networking and identity services.
• Monitor system health availability and performance across cloud workloads.
• Manage deployments configuration changes and environment provisioning using infrastructure as code and automation tools.
• Troubleshoot service disruptions performance degradation and integration issues.
• Optimize cloud resource utilization and cost management through rightsizing and lifecycle controls.
• Maintain backup recovery and disaster recovery readiness for critical systems.

Security Monitoring and Response

• Monitor cloud security telemetry logs and alerts to identify potential threats or anomalous behavior.
• Investigate security events and coordinate incident response activities.
• Maintain and tune detection rules alert thresholds and monitoring dashboards.
• Support vulnerability management patching and remediation tracking for cloud resources.
• Assist with security audits compliance evidence collection and control validation.
• Collaborate with security engineering and governance teams to strengthen cloud security posture.

Automation Observability and Continuous Improvement

• Implement automated monitoring alerting and remediation where feasible.
• Develop and maintain operational dashboards and reporting for system health and security status.
• Contribute to runbooks standard operating procedures and incident response documentation.
• Identify recurring operational or security issues and recommend long term corrective actions.
• Participate in on call rotation and post incident reviews.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelors Degree in Information Technology Cybersecurity Computer Science or related field or equivalent experience.
• Experience operating and supporting workloads in AWS environments.
• Hands on experience with cloud monitoring logging and alerting tools.
• Foundational understanding of networking identity and access management and system administration.
• Experience investigating incidents troubleshooting outages or responding to security alerts.
• Familiarity with scripting or automation (e.g. PowerShell Python or Bash).
• Strong analytical documentation and communication skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with cloud security services SIEM or threat detection platforms.
• Knowledge of infrastructure as code (e.g. Terraform CloudFormation or similar tools).
• Familiarity with vulnerability scanning and remediation processes.
• Understanding compliance or regulatory frameworks (e.g. NIST CIS or similar standards).
• Relevant industry certifications (e.g. AWS Certified Solutions Architect AWS Security Specialty Security or similar).
• Experience configuring and hardening cloud services to align with organizational security and operational standards.

Core Competencies

• Operational reliability and accountability
• Security awareness and risk management
• Problem solving and incident response
• Automation and continuous improvement mindset
• Collaboration across technical and business teams