Job Title: DevOps Engineer (AWS-Focused)

Duration: 12+ Months contract with extension

Location: Sunnyvale, CA (Onsite on every Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday)

Job Summary
We are seeking a highly skilled DevOps Engineer with deep AWS expertise to design, provision, secure, and operate cloud infrastructure supporting large-scale Digital Asset Management (DAM) platforms. The ideal candidate will have hands-on experience building resilient, observable, and high-performance systems, and will collaborate closely with internal engineering teams as well as external platform partners, including Apple teams.
Experience with DAM platforms is a strong plus but not mandatory.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, provision, and secure AWS infrastructure supporting DAM workloads using infrastructure-as-code best practices.
• Build and manage scalable cloud services across AWS, including compute, storage, networking, IAM, and security services.
• Operate and optimize streaming, messaging, caching, search, and database platforms (e.g., Kafka/Kinesis, SQS/SNS, Redis/Elastic Cache, OpenSearch, RDS/DynamoDB).
• Ensure high availability, scalability, reliability, and fault tolerance of production systems.
• Implement robust monitoring, logging, alerting, and observability using CloudWatch, OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Grafana, or similar tools.
• Support CI/CD pipelines, deployment automation, and release management across environments
• Lead troubleshooting, root cause analysis, and performance optimization for production issues.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with application engineers, third-party platform providers, and Apple engineering teams to deliver integrated solutions.
• Drive continuous improvement in security posture, cost optimization, and operational excellence.

Required Qualifications

• Strong hands-on experience as a DevOps or Cloud Engineer, with heavy focus on AWS.
• Deep knowledge of AWS services including EC2, ECS/EKS, S3, VPC, IAM, RDS, DynamoDB, CloudFront, and CloudWatch.
• Experience managing distributed systems involving streaming, messaging, caching, search, and databases.
• Proficiency with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CloudFormation, or CDK).
• Solid understanding of Linux systems, networking, and security best practices.
• Experience supporting production systems with high scale and reliability requirements.
• Strong troubleshooting and performance tuning skills.
• Excellent communication skills and ability to work across teams and organizations.

Nice to Have

• Experience with Digital Asset Management (DAM) platforms or media-heavy workflows.
• Kubernetes (EKS) and container orchestration expertise.
• Experience working with large enterprise platforms or partner-driven ecosystems.
• AWS certifications (Solutions Architect, DevOps Engineer, or Security Specialty).

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