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Senior AWS DevOps Engineer

Tcs Ct Usa
2 days ago
Contract
On-site
Austin, Texas, United States
$62 - $67 USD hourly

Role Description

We are seeking an experienced AWS DevOps Engineer to design, automate, and manage AWS infrastructure supporting production and non-production database environments. The role focuses on CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code, database automation, monitoring, high availability, disaster recovery, and operational efficiency.

Roles & Responsibilities

  • Design, provision, and manage AWS infrastructure for database environments.

  • Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines for database deployments, schema migrations, and configuration management.

  • Automate infrastructure provisioning using Terraform, CloudFormation, or AWS CDK.

  • Develop monitoring and alerting solutions for database health using CloudWatch, Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, or OEM.

  • Collaborate with DBAs to automate backups, patching, failover/switchover, replication, and capacity planning.

  • Implement High Availability (HA) and Disaster Recovery (DR) across multi-AZ and multi-region AWS environments.

  • Develop self-service tools and runbooks to reduce manual DBA operations.

  • Manage secrets, credentials, and database access using AWS Secrets Manager and IAM roles with least-privilege principles.

  • Participate in on-call support, incident response, and root cause analysis.

  • Drive database infrastructure cost optimization through right-sizing, reserved instances, and storage tiering.

  • Develop automation scripts using Python, Bash, and Ansible.

  • Maintain technical documentation and architecture diagrams.

  • Ensure encryption, auditing, and regulatory compliance in coordination with security teams.

Required Skills

  • AWS DevOps and Infrastructure Management.

  • CI/CD: Jenkins, GitLab CI, AWS CodePipeline, or similar.

  • Infrastructure as Code: Terraform, CloudFormation, AWS CDK.

  • Python, Bash, and automation scripting.

  • AWS CloudWatch and monitoring/observability tools.

  • Database deployment and operational automation.

  • HA/DR, multi-AZ, multi-region, and database replication.

  • AWS IAM and Secrets Manager.

  • Kubernetes.

Experience Required

8–10 years.