DevOps Engineer (AWS)

Location: Remote. The work is generally performed in an office environment, although the position is listed as remote.

Salary: $126,000–$150,000 per year.

Company

hirify.global delivers customer-facing professional services and AWS cloud solutions focused on technical excellence and business outcomes.

What you will do

• Design, deploy, maintain, and troubleshoot large production microservices estates running on Kubernetes and AWS.
• Build cloud-native CI/CD workflows and pipelines for containerized applications using tools such as Jenkins, CodeDeploy, CodePipeline, and GitLab.
• Automate AWS infrastructure, application deployment, and testing across development, pre-production, and production environments using scripting, Infrastructure-as-Code, and configuration management.
• Guide developers on AWS architecture and design, while establishing cloud cost visibility, resource tagging, and budgetary efficiency.
• Support customer migrations from on-premises environments to AWS, including migration planning, resource validation, and decommissioning.
• Collaborate with project teams through daily progress reviews, technical solution discussions, transparent communication, and delivery governance.

Requirements

• 4–7 years of DevOps/SRE experience in AWS environments or supporting software development teams.
• At least 3 years of experience running Kubernetes microservices in production, including AWS EKS, Helm, and Custom Resource Definitions.
• At least 4 years of experience developing AWS cloud infrastructure and CI/CD pipelines using tools such as Jenkins and GitHub.
• Strong knowledge of AWS cloud security practices, plus hands-on experience with Linux and Docker.
• Proficiency in Infrastructure-as-Code, such as Terraform or AWS CloudFormation, and configuration management tooling, such as Ansible, Chef, or Puppet.
• Proficiency in one or more programming or scripting languages, such as Python, Ruby, Go, Swift, Java, .NET, or C++.
• Hands-on experience with microservices and distributed application architecture in multi-tier environments, as well as the full software development lifecycle and Agile methodologies.
• Attention to detail, exceptional communication, and time management skills.

Nice to have

• Kubernetes Administrator, AWS Solution Architect Professional, AWS DevOps Engineer Professional, AWS Data Analytics Specialty, or other relevant certifications.
• Experience integrating static and dynamic code analysis and testing tools into CI/CD pipelines, including SonarQube or Selenium.
• Production experience with GitOps workflows using Git, ArgoCD, app of apps patterns, Prometheus, or Grafana.
• Experience with Kubernetes service mesh architectures such as ISTIO, and advanced AWS networking and routing.
• Master’s degree or higher in engineering or information systems.
• Open-source community contribution, AWS GPU compute and FSx for Lustre experience, or Conveyor and other HPC tooling experience.
• Database design experience, prior Mavenlink experience, or project management certifications such as PMP.

Culture & Benefits

• Full-time employment with medical, dental, and vision insurance.
• Short-term disability, long-term disability, and life insurance.
• 401(k) plan with company match.
• 120 hours of paid time off accruing over one year, plus 14 paid major holidays annually.
• Work emphasizes customer satisfaction, technical excellence, transparency, responsiveness, respect, and effective collaboration.