AWS DevOps Engineer

Blankenship CPA Group is seeking an AWS DevOps Engineer to own and improve cloud infrastructure, deployment automation, observability, and production operations. The role focuses on balancing reliability, security, developer experience, and cost in a growing environment.

Responsibilities:

• Build and maintain secure, reliable AWS infrastructure using infrastructure as code
• Operate containerized production workloads and managed data services
• Develop and improve CI/CD pipelines, release automation, and environment promotion
• Implement monitoring, alerting, logging, and operational dashboards
• Lead incident investigation and improve systems based on lessons learned
• Maintain backup, recovery, secrets-management, and access-control practices
• Automate repetitive operational work and improve developer workfl ows
• Support security, vulnerability-management, and compliance initiatives
• Collaborate with application engineers from development through production

Requirements:

• 5+ years in DevOps, SRE, platform engineering, or a similar role
• Strong production experience with AWS
• Experience operating containerized applications on AWS Elastic Container Service (ECS)
• Proficiency with infrastructure as code
• Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines with GitHub Actions
• Solid knowledge of cloud networking, IAM, monitoring, and secrets management
• Strong Docker, Linux, and shell-scripting skills
• Experience troubleshooting production systems
• Clear written communication and operational documentation skills
• Must be a US citizen
• AWS CDK and Python experience
• Experience with managed PostgreSQL databases
• Cloud security or zero-trust architecture experience
• Backup and disaster-recovery experience
• Software supply-chain and vulnerability-scanning experience
• Experience in fintech or another regulated industry
• Familiarity with SOC 2 or comparable compliance program