Key skills
AWS EC2AWS S3AWS RDSAWS LambdaAWS ECSAWS EKSAWS CloudFrontAWS Route 53AWS IAMAWS CloudWatchAWS X-RayJenkinsGitHub ActionsGitLab CIAWS CodePipelineDockerKubernetesHelmTerraformCloudFormationAWS CDKPythonBashCI/CD pipeline developmentInfrastructure as CodeSecrets managementDeployment automationSecurity compliance HIPAASecurity compliance FedRAMPSecurity compliance SOC 2AWSECSEKSArgoCDEC2LambdaS3RDSCloudFrontIAMCloudWatchCodePipelineCodeBuildGitHubGitLabCI/CDMentoring
About this role
ApTask is a leading global provider of workforce solutions and talent acquisition services, dedicated to shaping the future of work. They are seeking a Senior AWS DevOps Engineer to design, automate, and optimize cloud infrastructure and CI/CD pipelines, ensuring applications are highly available, scalable, secure, and cost-efficient.
Responsibilities:
- We are seeking a Senior 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, reliability issues and define and maintain SLAs, SLOs
- Automate provisioning, scaling, monitoring, recovery processes security scanning and vulnerability management with CI/CD
- Ensure systems meets 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:
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering or related field. Additional Four (4) expedience can be used in lieu of degree
- 8+ years of prior relevant experience in IT infrastructure, with at least 5+ years 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, cutover support
- Monitor deployment pipeline and build status, build troubleshooting, deployment automation, Helm chart maintenance, Dockerfile updates, environment config management, release coordination, 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
- AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Professional (Highly desirable)
- AWS Certified Solutions Architect or other specialty certifications