AWS DevOps Engineer

Title - Senior AWS DevOps Engineer AWS GovCloud

Experience: 10 Years
Location: Remote (EST)
Mandatory: Hands on AWS GovCloud experience

Role Summary

Senior AWS DevOps Engineer with deep AWS GovCloud expertise to design build and manage secure scalable and compliant cloud environments for government and regulated workloads.

Duties:

Cloud & Infrastructure

• Design deploy and manage AWS GovCloud (US) environments.
• Build highly available secure fault tolerant architectures.
• Work with AWS services: EC2 VPC IAM S3 RDS Lambda ELB Route 53 CloudWatch CloudTrail.
• Provision infrastructure using Terraform CloudFormation or AWS CDK.

DevOps & Automation

• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins GitHub Actions GitLab CI Azure DevOps AWS Code Pipeline).
• Automate deployments configuration management and scaling.
• Implement blue green canary and rolling deployments.
• Manage containers using Docker and Kubernetes (EKS).

Security & Compliance (GovCloud)

• Ensure compliance with FedRAMP FISMA NIST 800 53 DoD SRG ITAR.
• Implement IAM encryption KMS network segmentation auditing best practices.
• Support security audits documentation and vulnerability remediation.

Monitoring & Reliability

• Set up monitoring and logging using CloudWatch Prometheus Grafana ELK.
• Troubleshoot production issues and perform root cause analysis.
• Apply SRE best practices to ensure reliability and performance.

Collaboration & Leadership

• Work with application security and compliance teams.
• Mentor junior DevOps engineers.
• Participate in architecture reviews change management and incident response.

Required:

• 10 years in Cloud / DevOps engineering.
• Strong hands on AWS GovCloud experience.
• Solid Linux/Unix administration.
• Proficient in Shell / Bash / Python.
• Strong Terraform / CloudFormation experience.
• CI/CD automation expertise.
• Docker & Kubernetes (EKS) experience.
• Deep AWS networking (VPC subnets SGs NACLs).
• Strong IAM and security best practices.
• Experience supporting federal or regulated environments.
• Hands on exposure to FedRAMP Moderate/High processes.

Desired:

• AWS Certifications (DevOps Pro Solutions Architect Pro Security Specialty).
• Experience with Ansible / Chef / Puppet.
• Background in government defense or public sector projects.
• Knowledge of Zero Trust Architecture.