Role Description
We are seeking an AWS DevOps Engineer to design, automate, and optimize cloud infrastructure and CI/CD pipelines while ensuring applications are highly available, scalable, secure, and cost-efficient.
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Hands-on experience with AWS services, automation frameworks, and DevOps best practices.
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Capable of mentoring junior engineers and driving technical excellence across teams.
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Develop and manage CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, AWS CodePipeline, etc.) and support containerized workloads (Docker, ECS, EKS, Kubernetes).
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Enable automated testing, artifact management, and blue/green or canary deployments.
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Implement observability, monitoring, and logging solutions using AWS CloudWatch, X-Ray, or third-party tools.
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Troubleshoot system performance, latency, and reliability issues and define and maintain SLAs and SLOs.
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Automate provisioning, scaling, monitoring, recovery processes, security scanning, and vulnerability management with CI/CD.
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Ensure systems meet security, governance, and regulatory compliance requirements (HIPAA, FedRAMP, SOC 2, etc.) as applicable.
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Implement IAM best practices, encryption strategies, and secure networking.
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Work closely with developers, architects, and QA to ensure smooth releases.
Qualifications
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US Citizenship is required or Green Card Holder.
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A Bachelor's degree or additional four (4) years of relevant experience will be needed in lieu of degree.
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A minimum of Four (4) to Eight (8) years of prior relevant experience in IT infrastructure.
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A minimum of THREE (3) years of experience in cloud engineering, DevOps, or infrastructure automation.
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Expertise in AWS core services (EC2, S3, RDS, Lambda, ECS/EKS, CloudFront, Route 53, IAM, etc.).
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Strong development background in Python, Bash, or similar.
Requirements
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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.
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Monitor deployment pipeline and build status, build troubleshooting, deployment automation, Helm chart maintenance, Dockerfile updates, environment config management, release coordination, and developer support.
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Ownership of services like GitHub Actions, AWS CodeBuild, ArgoCD, Helm charts, Dockerfiles, secrets management, environment variables, deployment workflows, Terraform templates.
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Hands-on experience with IaC (Terraform, CloudFormation, CDK).
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Proven ability to work autonomously and collaborate, mentor, help, and support other team members, as needed to solve complex operational and reliability problems.
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No visa sponsorship available for this position.
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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.
Benefits
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Medical, Rx, Dental & Vision Insurance
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Personal and Family Sick Time & Company Paid Holidays
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Parental Leave
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401(k) Retirement Plan
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Group Term Life and Travel Assistance
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Voluntary Life and AD&D Insurance
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Health Savings Account, Health Care & Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts
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Transit and Parking Commuter Benefits
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Short-Term & Long-Term Disability
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Tuition Reimbursement, Personal Development, Certifications & Learning Opportunities
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Employee Referral Program
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Corporate Sponsored Events & Community Outreach
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Care.com annual membership
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Employee Assistance Program
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Supplemental Benefits via Corestream (Critical Care, Hospital Indemnity, Accident Insurance, Legal Assistance and ID theft protection, etc.)
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Position may be eligible for a discretionary variable incentive bonus
