Engineer, Application Operations (Remote)

• Management of DevOps for AWS (Amazon Web Services); Owning infrastructure code; making required changes
• Release Management: Take releases own process and relevant improvements and drive to success;
• Ability to drive process in additional platforms over time

Application Operations

• Familiarity with configuring AWS services for example:
  • Lambdas
  • DynamoDB
  • API Gateway
  • SNS
  • SQS
  • SES
  • Cognito
  • IAM
  • S3
  • EventBridge

Cybersecurity

• Distill findings from security team and address any actions
• Map security callouts raised by security team to applicable AWS service
• Create actionable list of items
• Execute against the list of items to resolve security findings
• Continuously monitor and address findings from automated scans

Reporting & Observability

• Continuously maintaining monitoring and alerting for various AWS services to ensure quick triage by the team in the event of failure or outage
• Configuration of notification mechanisms

Required WorkExperience:

• 4 years in application operations SRE or platform engineering in a cloud-native environment (AWS preferred)

Knowledge:

• Strong understanding of serverless architectures (Lambda API Gateway DynamoDB SQS/SNS EventBridge)
• Deep knowledge of modern authentication/authorization OAuth 2.0 JWT PKCE mutual TLS API key management
• Familiarity with OWASP CIS Benchmarks NIST 800-53 or SOC2 controls

Skills:

• Hands-on CI/CD experience (GitHub Actions CodePipeline ArgoCD or similar). Writing associated configuration files to accommodate build/deployment requirements
• Experience with security tooling SAST/DAST scanners dependency auditing secrets management WAF configuration
• Proficiency with observability platforms (CloudWatch X-Ray Datadog Grafana or equivalent)
• Strong scripting (Bash Python or ) for automation incident response tooling and reporting
• Experience managing DLQs event replay and ensuring idempotency in distributed systems

Preferred Knowledge/Skills:

• HIPAA-compliant infrastructure experience
• AWS Security Specialty or equivalent certification
• Experience with SIEM platforms (Splunk Sentinel or CloudWatch Logs Insights at scale)
• FinOps awareness correlating cost with operational and security posture

Education:

• Bachelors Degree or equivalent experience