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DevOps Engineer (AWS / GitHub Actions)

Premium Remote Friendly Full-time Datadog Automation ECS Production Support GitHub

Description

The company is looking for an experienced DevOps Engineer with strong AWS operational expertise to modernize their infrastructure, tighten production support, and drive a CI/CD transformation. This is a hands-on engineering role — the person builds a mature DevOps function from the inside and works closely, day to day, with Oscar. The headline project: moving the company AWS codebase into GitHub Actions.

Requirements

Must-have:

  • AWS infrastructure & operations — EC2, Auto Scaling, Load Balancers, VPC networking fundamentals, operational troubleshooting
  • GitHub Actions — required. Workflow design, reusable workflows, secrets/OIDC, migrating existing pipelines in
  • CI/CD & deployment automation — pipeline design and standardization, release management practices
  • Infrastructure as Code — Terraform or CloudFormation
  • Monitoring & observability — dashboard design, alerting strategy, monitoring cleanup and rationalization (Datadog or an equivalent tool; they may move off Datadog)
  • Cost optimization & capacity planning — AWS spend analysis, resource optimization, scaling and de-scaling strategy
  • AWS security — WAF administration and security best practices
  • Production support — incident detection and response process

Nice-to-have:

  • Datadog specifically (administration and optimization)
  • Slack integrations for alerting
  • Containers — ECS / EKS / Docker
  • Scripting — Python or Bash
  • Financial services or other regulated-environment background
  • AWS certification (SysOps Administrator / Solutions Architect / DevOps Engineer Professional)


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