[Remote] Senior AWS DevOps Engineer
Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Technatomy Corporation is dedicated to delivering innovative solutions for various agencies, including the Department of Veterans Affairs and Department of Defense. They are seeking a Senior AWS DevOps Engineer to provide technical leadership and hands-on support for their Digital Transformation Center Integration Platform, responsible for AWS infrastructure and DevOps capabilities.
Responsibilities
- Design, deploy, and lead the operation of AWS-based infrastructure supporting the DIP platform and its integrations
- Own platform reliability objectives, including high availability, fault tolerance, and operational resilience supporting 24x7 monitoring and uptime expectations
- Architect and optimize AWS services including EC2, EKS, ECS, Lambda, S3, VPC, Route 53, IAM, and CloudWatch
- Lead capacity planning, performance optimization, and cost-management strategies across environments
- Establish and maintain infrastructure standards, operational runbooks, and environment documentation
- Design, build, and govern CI/CD pipelines supporting Java-based API and integration deployments
- Lead Infrastructure as Code (IaC) practices using Terraform and AWS CloudFormation to ensure repeatability and consistency
- Architect and support containerized workloads using Docker and Kubernetes-based platforms
- Partner closely with software engineering teams to improve build, test, deployment, and release reliability
- Implement and refine progressive deployment strategies, rollback mechanisms, and release controls
- Design and maintain monitoring, logging, and alerting solutions using CloudWatch, Datadog, and related tooling
- Lead incident response, root-cause analysis, and post-incident improvement activities
- Drive improvements to observability, resiliency, and operational readiness across the platform
- Implement and enforce AWS security best practices for identity, access management, and network controls
- Oversee secure handling of secrets, credentials, and sensitive configuration data
- Provide technical leadership for activities supporting ATO renewal and ongoing compliance requirements
- Collaborate with security, governance, and architecture stakeholders to remediate findings and apply platform improvements
- Mentor junior and mid-level DevOps engineers and see consistent engineering practices across the team
Skills
- 6–9+ years of experience in AWS DevOps, Cloud Engineering, or related roles, including senior-level ownership of production platforms
- Deep, hands-on experience managing AWS infrastructure and services in complex production environments
- Advanced experience designing and operating CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI/CD, or similar tools
- Strong expertise with Infrastructure as Code using Terraform and/or AWS CloudFormation
- Extensive experience with containerization and orchestration technologies (Docker, Kubernetes, EKS)
- Strong scripting and automation skills using Bash, Python, or similar languages
- Strong understanding of networking, cloud security principles, and distributed system operations
- Proven experience supporting systems with uptime, SLA, and on-call or operational support expectations
- Experience working in Agile delivery environments with cross-functional engineering teams
- Ability to communicate complex technical concepts clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related discipline, or equivalent experience
- Must be able to obtain and maintain a Public Trust clearance
- This position requires U.S. citizenship or Green Card
- Experience working with Federal agencies, particularly the Department of Veterans Affairs, is a plus
- Experience supporting integration platforms, APIs, or middleware ecosystems
- Hands-on experience with observability platforms such as Datadog
- Experience operating platforms subject to compliance, authorization, or audit requirements
- AWS certifications (Professional or advanced Associate-level) are preferred
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