AWS DevOps Engineer

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San Antonio, TEXAS METROPOLITAN AREA, United States
92000 - 153000 USD / Year
  • IT
  • FullTime
  • Seasonal
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Senior AWS DevOps Engineer — San Antonio, TX

💰 Estimated salary: $92,000 — $153,000 per year

📍 Travel: Up to 10% | Clearance: Ability to Obtain Public Trust

We are seeking a Senior AWS DevOps Engineer to design, automate, and optimize cloud infrastructure and CI/CD pipelines. This role ensures applications are highly available, scalable, secure, and cost-efficient, while also mentoring junior engineers and driving technical excellence.

Key Responsibilities

  • Develop and manage CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, AWS CodePipeline).
  • Support containerized workloads (Docker, ECS, EKS, Kubernetes).
  • Automate provisioning, scaling, monitoring, recovery processes, and security scanning.
  • Implement observability, monitoring, and logging (CloudWatch, X-Ray, or third-party tools).
  • Troubleshoot system performance, latency, and reliability issues.
  • Ensure compliance with governance and regulatory requirements (HIPAA, FedRAMP, SOC 2).
  • Define IAM best practices, encryption strategies, and secure networking.
  • Collaborate with developers, architects, and QA to ensure smooth releases.

Requirements

  • US Citizenship and ability to obtain a Public Trust clearance.
  • 8+ years in IT infrastructure, including 5+ years in cloud engineering/DevOps.
  • Bachelor’s degree in CS, Engineering, or related field (or 12 years’ experience in lieu).
  • Strong AWS expertise (EC2, S3, RDS, Lambda, ECS/EKS, Route 53, IAM, etc.).
  • Hands-on experience with IaC (Terraform, CloudFormation, CDK).
  • Strong scripting background (Python, Bash).
  • Proven mentoring and team collaboration skills.

Preferred

  • AWS Certified DevOps Engineer — Professional (highly desirable).
  • AWS Solutions Architect or specialty certifications.

What’s Offered

  • Competitive salary plus potential performance bonus.
  • Full benefits package including medical, dental, vision, life, and disability insurance.
  • Paid vacation, sick leave, parental leave, and holidays.
  • 401(k) with company match.
  • Tuition reimbursement and certification support.
  • Employee Assistance Program and wellness initiatives.
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