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AWS DevOps Engineer
Location
District Of Columbia + 1 moreAll locations: District Of Columbia | Virginia
Posted
1 day ago
Salary
$89K - $148K / year
Seniority
Senior
Job Description
AWS DevOps Engineer
Guidehouse
• Design, automate, and optimize cloud infrastructure and CI/CD pipelines while ensuring applications are highly available, scalable, secure and cost-efficient. • Develop and manage CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, AWS CodePipeline, etc.) and support containerized workloads (Docker, ECS, EKS, Kubernetes). • Enable automated testing, artifact management, and blue/green or canary deployments. • Implement observability, monitoring, and logging solutions using AWS CloudWatch, X-Ray, or third-party tools. • Troubleshoot system performance, latency, and reliability issues and define and maintain SLAs and SLOs. • Automate provisioning, scaling, monitoring, recovery processes, security scanning, and vulnerability management with CI/CD. • Ensure systems meet security, governance, and regulatory compliance requirements (HIPAA, FedRAMP, SOC 2, etc.) as applicable. • Implement IAM best practices, encryption strategies, and secure networking. • Work closely with developers, architects, and QA to ensure smooth releases.
Job Requirements
- US Citizenship is required or Green Card Holder.
- A Bachelor's degree or additional four(4) years of relevant experience will be needed in lieu of degree.
- A minimum of Four(4) to Eight(8) years of prior relevant experience in IT infrastructure.
- A minimum of THREE (3) years of experience in cloud engineering, DevOps, or infrastructure automation.
- Expertise in AWS core services (EC2, S3, RDS, Lambda, ECS/EKS, CloudFront, Route 53, IAM, etc.)
- Hands-on experience with IaC (Terraform, CloudFormation, CDK)
- Strong development background in Python, Bash, or similar.
- No visa sponsorship available for this position.
- Must be able to OBTAIN and MAINTAIN a Federal or DoD "PUBLIC TRUST"; candidates must obtain approved adjudication of their PUBLIC TRUST prior to onboarding with Guidehouse.
- Candidates with an ACTIVE PUBLIC TRUST or SUITABILITY are preferred.
- AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Professional (Highly desirable).
- Candidates with an ACTIVE PUBLIC TRUST or SUITABILITY are preferred.
- Assist senior transition team in account handoff validation, CI/CD pipeline validation, GitHub Actions audit, CodeBuild job review, Argo sync check, artifact migration, secrets verification, deployment dry runs, rollback prep, and cutover support.
- Monitor deployment pipeline and build status, build troubleshooting, deployment automation, Helm chart maintenance, Dockerfile updates, environment config management, release coordination, and developer support.
- Ownership of services like GitHub Actions, AWS CodeBuild, ArgoCD, Helm charts, Dockerfiles, secrets management, environment variables, deployment workflows, Terraform templates.
Benefits
- Medical, Rx, Dental & Vision Insurance
- Personal and Family Sick Time & Company Paid Holidays
- Parental Leave
- 401(k) Retirement Plan
- Group Term Life and Travel Assistance
- Voluntary Life and AD&D Insurance
- Health Savings Account, Health Care & Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts
- Transit and Parking Commuter Benefits
- Short-Term & Long-Term Disability
- Tuition Reimbursement, Personal Development, Certifications & Learning Opportunities
- Employee Referral Program
- Corporate Sponsored Events & Community Outreach
- Care.com annual membership
- Employee Assistance Program
- Supplemental Benefits via Corestream (Critical Care, Hospital Indemnity, Accident Insurance, Legal Assistance and ID theft protection, etc.)
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