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DevOps Engineer III, Deployment, Release Safety & Disaster Recovery

DevOps EngineerDevOps EngineerFull TimeRemoteSeniorTeam 501-1,000Since 2014H1B No SponsorCompany SiteLinkedIn

Location

United States

Posted

7 days ago

Salary

$110K - $140K / year

Seniority

Senior

Bachelor Degree5 yrs expEnglishAWSCloudDockerEC2JenkinsTerraform

Job Description

DevOps Engineer III, Deployment, Release Safety & Disaster Recovery

Ad Hoc LLC

• DevOps Engineer III serves as an emerging individual contributor within a team, expanding your leadership, guidance, and mentoring skills. • With the support and guidance of leadership, you will be responsible for supporting the goal of meeting scope, schedule, and delivery requirements. • You will interact with stakeholders and utilize influential skills to drive improvements in DevOps processes and practices. • Manage blue/green and linear application rollouts with automated rollback to ensure zero-downtime production deployments • Build and maintain cost-optimization scripts using AWS Compute Optimizer and Cost Explorer to flag and clean up idle resources and orphaned volumes • Validate data encryption controls at rest (KMS) and in transit (TLS) across databases and cloud storage • Build and maintain authentication and access-control infrastructure supporting deployments, applying IAM least-privilege policies • Expand Terraform/IaC coverage across AWS services including EC2, S3, RDS, VPC, Lambda, and IAM • Support the observability/SRE lead during disaster recovery failover exercises; execute and document DR testing and maintain runbook accuracy • Provide deployment support to AppDev teams; maintain deployment runbooks as part of the Definition of Done • Participate in on-call and production triage rotations, supporting Tier 2/3 incident response

Job Requirements

  • Bachelor's degree and 5+ years of relevant experience, or equivalent additional experience in lieu of a degree
  • Must meet federal suitability requirements and pass a background investigation as a condition of employment
  • Hands-on experience with AWS services including EC2, ECS, RDS, S3, Lambda, and CloudWatch
  • Proficiency with Terraform for infrastructure-as-code provisioning and drift prevention
  • Demonstrated experience building and optimizing CI/CD pipelines in GitLab and/or Jenkins
  • Strong working knowledge of containerization using Docker and container orchestration on AWS ECS/EKS/Fargate
  • Familiarity with DevSecOps practices including SAST, dependency scanning, and automated vulnerability remediation
  • Solid understanding of networking, virtualization, and cloud infrastructure fundamentals
  • Hands-on experience with deployment strategies (blue/green, canary, linear) and rollback automation

Benefits

  • Company-subsidized health, dental, and vision insurance
  • Flexible PTO
  • 401K with employer match
  • Paid parental leave after one year of service
  • Employee Assistance Program

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