Sr. DevOps Engineer (Remote, US-Based)

Our client is seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer to join their remote-first team. You’ll work across multiple AWS-hosted client environments—primarily web applications built on Python/Django—as well as data pipelines, remote workspaces, and our growing platform-as-a-service offering, AppPack, built on AWS.

This is a contract-to-hire role, starting part-time (20 hours per week) for the first 3 months, then transitioning to 40 hours per week, with flexible hours, ideal for a hands-on AWS expert with strong Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) skills who thrives in a multi-project, client-facing environment.

Responsibilities:

• Own and manage AWS infrastructure for multiple clients, ensuring security, scalability, and cost efficiency.
• Maintain and evolve Terraform configurations and other IaC templates to ensure consistency and repeatability across environments.
• Monitor and respond to SecurityHub and GuardDuty alerts, ensuring proactive remediation of security risks.
• Identify and implement cost optimization opportunities across client environments.
• Provide performance, cost, and usage reporting/insights to clients for improved visibility and decision-making.
• Investigate, debug, and resolve site outages and performance issues.
• Implement new infrastructure functionality as scoped by the DevOps Architect.
• Contribute to AppPack’s growth by improving reliability, scalability, and automation across the PaaS platform.

Requirements:

• 4+ years of professional AWS experience, with strong knowledge of VPC, ECS, RDS, ALB, IAM, and related services.
• Expertise in Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC), specifically with Terraform (design, implementation, and maintenance).
• Familiarity with AWS-native deployment tools such as CloudFormation and CDK a plus.
• Strong Linux administration skills and comfort working in cloud-native environments.
• Experience debugging complex, multi-service AWS workloads and conducting root cause analysis.
• Self-motivated and effective working on a remote, distributed team.
• Strong documentation skills, able to clearly capture architectures, solutions, and troubleshooting steps.
• Ability to context-switch across multiple projects/clients while maintaining high-quality output.
• AWS Certification(s) preferred (Solutions Architect, SysOps Administrator, or DevOps Engineer).
• Experience with Python/Django and Go for automation and tooling.
• Knowledge of AWS Lambda, Step Functions, DynamoDB, and EventBridge for serverless workloads.
• Hands-on experience with Kubernetes and Helm.
• CI/CD experience with GitHub Actions, CircleCI, or similar.
• Prior experience in a consulting, agency, or freelancer role, balancing multiple client engagements.
• Heavy AWS & Terraform, experience with Azure is a plus
• Experience with Python/Django in production.
• Experience with scaling and performance around Python/Django is a big plus.

Typical Tasks You’ll Handle

• Provision AWS resources (e.g., S3 buckets, IAM policies, VPC networking) via Terraform.
• Review and remediate SecurityHub alerts.
• Debug client infrastructure issues spanning ECS, RDS, or ALB.
• Respond to monitoring alerts and outages in production environments.
• Recommend improvements in monitoring, redundancy, and security posture.
• Perform root cause analysis of application or infrastructure failures.
• Drive cost savings through better resource utilization and architectural improvements.

DevOps Philosophy

• Prioritize cloud-native managed services (ECS Fargate, Lambda, RDS, DynamoDB, etc.) to minimize operational overhead.
• Automate relentlessly: reduce toil by removing or scripting manual tasks wherever possible.
• Leave behind clear, thorough documentation so anyone can quickly onboard and maintain continuity.

**This role is ideal for a senior AWS engineer who loves automation, IaC, and cloud-native architectures while shaping modern DevOps practices.