AWS DevOps Engineer

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Philippines.

📋 Description

• Take ownership and enhance AWS-based environments for a specific customer account.

• Lead efforts in automation, CI/CD, and the adoption of Infrastructure as Code.

• Enhance security measures, reliability, and scalability.

• Collaborate closely with customer teams, developers, and internal experts.

• Provide expert technical support for AWS infrastructure, including EC2, S3, RDS, VPC, IAM, Lambda, and more.

• Troubleshoot system, application, and network issues in accordance with SLAs.

• Monitor performance and availability of the platform utilizing CloudWatch and observability tools.

• Participate in post-incident reviews and drive continuous improvement initiatives.

• Design, implement, and maintain Infrastructure as Code using Terraform and/or AWS CloudFormation.

• Develop and manage CI/CD pipelines, such as GitHub Actions and GitOps workflows.

• Support and operate containerized environments using Docker and Kubernetes (EKS).

• Implement deployment strategies and enhance release processes.

• Automate operational tasks to boost efficiency and minimize manual involvement.

• Manage AWS environments across various accounts.

• Support contemporary AWS architectures, including Landing Zones, multi-account strategies, and Transit Gateway.

• Maintain and optimize services such as RDS/Aurora, backups, and performance tuning.

• Collaborate with development teams to ensure scalable and resilient application deployments.

• Integrate security best practices throughout infrastructure and delivery pipelines.

• Implement and manage security tools, including vulnerability scanning and container/image security.

• Apply principles including least privilege, encryption, and secrets management.

• Create and update runbooks, knowledge base articles, and technical documentation.

• Identify opportunities for automation and service enhancement.

⛳️ Requirements

• Extensive experience with AWS services such as EKS, EC2, RDS/Aurora, S3, IAM, VPC, and CloudWatch.

• Practical experience with Infrastructure as Code tools like Terraform or CloudFormation.

• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and DevOps workflows.

• Strong understanding of containerization and Kubernetes, preferably EKS.

• Exceptional troubleshooting capabilities across cloud infrastructure and applications.

• Experience with scripting languages such as Python, Bash, or similar.

• Knowledge of AWS networking concepts, including VPC, routing, and load balancing.

• Awareness of security best practices, including IAM, encryption, and secrets management.

• Experience in customer-facing or managed services environments.

• Outstanding documentation and communication skills.

🏝️ Benefits

• 25 Days Paid Time-off

• Birthday Leave

• Company Bonus Scheme

• Flexible Working

• Early Friday Finish (Monthly)

• Company Laptop and Peripherals

• Company Sabbatical Scheme

• Personalised Training & Development Plan

• Annual Wellness Allowance

• Company Events

• Wellbeing support

• Mental Health Champions

• Calm app subscription