AWS DevOps Engineer

Guidehouse is a company seeking an AWS DevOps Engineer to design, automate, and optimize cloud infrastructure and CI/CD pipelines. The role involves mentoring junior engineers, developing CI/CD pipelines, and ensuring systems meet security and compliance requirements.

Responsibilities:

• We are seeking 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
• Hands-on experience with AWS services, automation frameworks, and DevOps best practices, while also capable of mentoring junior engineers and driving technical excellence across teams
• 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

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.)
• 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
• Hands-on experience with IaC (Terraform, CloudFormation, CDK)
• Proven ability to work autonomously and collaborate, mentor, help, and support other team members, as needed to solve complex operational and reliability problems
• Strong development background in Python, Bash, or similar
• 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
• AWS Certified Solutions Architect or other specialty certifications