DevOps Engineer III

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

📋 Description

• Design and implement secure, scalable architectures on AWS for applications that require high availability.

• Develop resilient data and service backends utilizing RDS, S3, Elasticsearch, SQS, and SNS.

• Execute secrets management, configuration management, and environment isolation across development, testing, staging, and production.

• Assess database scaling strategies while optimizing queries, indexing, replication, and connection pooling.

• Set up load balancers, DNS, VPCs, and manage SSL/TLS certificates.

• Implement GitOps and continuous delivery processes including policy gates, approvals, automated rollbacks, and progressive delivery methodologies.

• Codify infrastructure using AWS CDK and CloudFormation, incorporating reusable versioned modules and drift detection mechanisms.

• Create and uphold GitLab CI pipelines throughout the delivery lifecycle.

• Develop platform automation and internal tools using PowerShell, Python, Microsoft Graph, and Azure CLI.

• Support Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) practices including SLOs, error budgets, and deployment strategies such as blue/green, canary, or zero-downtime.

• Optimize AWS costs through autoscaling, reservations, spot usage, caching, CDN, data lifecycle policies, and enhancing build-farm efficiency.

• Integrate CloudWatch and AWS X-Ray for observability, performance tracing, metrics, and alerting.

• Enforce IAM policies, role separation, least privilege access, and secure architectures compliant with SOC 2, HIPAA, and ISO 27001 standards.

• Maintain architecture diagrams, pipeline documentation, runbooks, decision records, how-to guides, and internal platform catalog modules.

• Mentor junior team members and collaborate with Security, Application Development, Reliability, Connectivity, SRE, and full-stack engineering teams.

⛳️ Requirements

• Minimum of 5 years of hands-on AWS experience, including ECS, RDS, ALB, VPC, CloudWatch, Lambda, and Amplify.

• Proficiency in infrastructure as code using AWS CDK or CloudFormation.

• Experience with CI/CD pipelines utilizing GitLab CI, GitHub Actions, or similar tools.

• Automation proficiency in Windows Server and PowerShell.

• Working knowledge of Linux/Bash.

• Strong foundational understanding of networking, including routing, DNS, load balancing, private endpoints, VPC networking, and SSL management.

• Demonstrated experience in scaling containerized services and troubleshooting autoscaling behavior.

• In-depth performance tuning knowledge for MySQL and PostgreSQL, focusing on query optimization, indexing, and replication configuration.

• Proven ability to document infrastructure for team knowledge sharing.

• Experience in designing secure and compliant architectures; familiarity with SOC 2, HIPAA, and ISO 27001 is advantageous.

• Understanding of event-driven and messaging patterns, including Service Bus, Event Grid, and Storage Queues.

• Required software experience includes AWS CDK, CloudFormation, AWS Management Console, GitLab CI, IIS, MySQL, and PostgreSQL.

• Familiarity with TypeScript is a plus.

🏝️ Benefits

• Work-from-anywhere environment.

• Unlimited paid time off (PTO).

• Comprehensive benefits package.

• Employee resource groups.

• Casual dress code.

• Focused initiatives on employee wellness.

• Diversity and inclusion programs.

• Support for new hires.

• Opportunities for career development.

• Educational assistance.

• Employee referral bonuses.

• Progressive parental leave policies.