AWS DevOps Engineer - Infrastructure & Security
Onsite to Charlotte, NC preferred *Remote allowed*
06+ Months Contract
Top Skills:
1. Terraform
2. GitHub Actions
3. AWS: Infra, security, CI/CD, IAM, Vault, Secrets Management
About the Role:
We're looking for a DevOps Engineer who can help lead our infrastructure-as-code and CICD deliverables for the OnPrem to AWS Cloud Migration project and raise the bar on security across the program. You'll design and maintain Terraform modules consumed by multiple teams, build secure CI/CD pipelines, and ensure every provisioned resource follows least-privilege principles. You'll work within HCP Terraform using VCS-driven workflows and help shape how the team adopts AI-assisted development tooling responsibly.
What You'll Do:
- Design, build, and maintain reusable Terraform modules with clear interfaces, versioning, and documentation so other teams can self-serve infrastructure safely
- Manage and optimize HCP Terraform workspaces using VCS-driven workflows - including workspace design, variable sets, run triggers, and policy enforcement
- Provision and manage cloud resources (primarily AWS) following least-privilege access patterns and security best practices
- Manage secrets and sensitive configuration using HashiCorp Vault and/or AWS Secrets Manager
- Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions) with proper gating, scanning, testing, and promotion workflows that integrate with HCP Terraform's VCS-driven run model
- Conduct security reviews of infrastructure code and pipeline configurations
Must Have:
- 5+ years of strong hands-on Terraform experience, including writing modules with proper state management, remote backends, and provider configuration
- Hands-on Experience with HCP Terraform (Terraform Cloud), specifically VCS-driven workflows - workspace configuration, speculative plans on PRs, run approvals, and managing workspace variables/variable sets
- Experience with HCP Terraform's private module registry for publishing and consuming internal modules
- Strong understanding of AWS IAM - policies, roles, trust relationships, permission boundaries, and service control policies
- Hands-on Experience with at least one secrets management platform: HashiCorp Vault or AWS Secrets Manager
- Solid understanding of OIDC and federated identity - how trust is established, token exchange, and practical application in CI/CD and cloud access
- Proven experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines in GitHub Actions or GitLab CI/CD, including environment promotion, approval gates, and artifact management
- Security-first mindset - you default to deny, scope permissions tightly, and can articulate why
- Hands-on Experience using AI coding assistants (Amazon Q, Kiro, GitHub Copilot, or similar) with a clear understanding of when to trust, verify, and override AI-generated output
- Commitment to human-in-the-loop practices: code review, manual approval gates for production, and treating AI output as a draft - never as the final word
Nice to Have:
- Experience with Sentinel within HCP Terraform
- Knowledge of infrastructure testing tools
- Contributions to internal developer platforms or self-service infrastructure tooling
How We Work in Client:
- Infrastructure changes are driven through VCS - a push or PR triggers speculative plans and runs in HCP Terraform, with peer review required before merge & apply
- AI tools accelerate our work, but every change is reviewed by a human before merging
- We treat security as a shared responsibility, not a gate at the end
- We document architectural decisions and keep runbooks current
- We prefer simple, maintainable solutions over clever ones
Additional Information:
We are looking for someone senior with hands-on experience on the technologies we work with at Client and also someone that autonomous that can interface with the customer and lead the DevOps workstream
Team Size: 100+ at project level (all roles included)
Direct reports: 0
Key deliverables: AWS Infra setup, pipeline creation, security implementation
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