Job Description
Job Title: Senior DevOps Engineer AWS
Location: Austin, TX (5 days onsite/week)
Duration: 12+ Months
Rate: $Market/Hour on W2
Eligibility: W2 only Open to US Citizens, Green Card Holders (C2C not allowed)
Key Skills:
Cloud & Architecture:
AWS (EC2, Lambda, ECS/EKS, S3, EBS, VPC, ALB/NLB)
Multi-account strategy using AWS Organizations
High availability, fault tolerance, disaster recovery
Infrastructure as Code (IaC):
Terraform (preferred) / AWS CloudFormation
Modular and reusable infrastructure design
CI/CD & Automation:
AWS CodePipeline, CodeBuild, CodeDeploy
GitHub Actions / Jenkins
Automated build, test, and deployment pipelines
Containers & Kubernetes:
Docker
Amazon EKS
Helm, cluster scaling, upgrades
Observability & Reliability:
CloudWatch, CloudTrail
Prometheus, Grafana
SLIs, SLOs, SLAs, incident management
Security & DevSecOps:
IAM, least privilege access
AWS Secrets Manager / Parameter Store
Security scanning and compliance
Cost Optimization (FinOps):
AWS Cost Explorer, Budgets
Rightsizing, Reserved Instances, autoscaling
Other Skills:
Python / Bash scripting
Strong AWS networking (VPC, routing, security groups)
Client-facing communication and leadership