DevOps Engineer with AWS Certified

Job Title: Platform Engineer / DevOps Engineer – AWS Certification (Must Have)

Location: 100% Remote Occasional travel to Princeton, NJ (every 3–6 months if needed) East Coast candidates only

Duration: Full-Time Permanent

Salary: $Market/Annum + Benefits

Eligibility: Open to US Citizens, Green Card Holders (No C2C / No Third Parties)

Certification Required: AWS Certified (DevOps Engineer Associate or Solutions Architect Associate)

Role Summary:

This is a hands-on Platform Engineer / DevOps Engineer position focused on building, automating, and modernizing AWS cloud infrastructure. Initially, the work is heavily centered on DevOps, CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code, AWS operations, and deployment automation, with a path toward broader Platform Engineering capabilities (Internal Developer Platforms, self-service tooling, developer enablement).

Key Focus Areas:

• AWS cloud infrastructure design and operations

• DevOps and CI/CD automation

• Infrastructure as Code using Terraform

• Containerization and orchestration with ECS/Fargate

• Platform reliability, security, and observability

• Application modernization (On-Prem AWS)

Required Technical Skills:

• AWS: EC2, ECS, ECR, VPC, IAM, RDS, S3, Lambda, CloudWatch

• Containers: Docker

• Infrastructure as Code: Terraform

• Source Control / CI/CD: GitHub, GitHub Actions

• Programming: Python preferred

• Monitoring/Logging: CloudWatch, Datadog

Core Responsibilities:

• Conduct architecture and deployment readiness reviews

• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines

• Automate application deployments in AWS

• Deploy/manage workloads on AWS ECS Fargate

• Provision and monitor AWS infrastructure

• Maintain Terraform-based infrastructure

• Perform code reviews and enforce engineering standards

• Implement security and compliance controls

• Troubleshoot incidents and perform root cause analysis

• Support application modernization initiatives

Ideal Candidate Profile:

• 4+ years as DevOps Engineer / Platform Engineer / Cloud Engineer

• Strong AWS production experience

• Experience collaborating with application, infrastructure, security, and business teams

• Comfortable with incident response and production support

• Experience building scalable, repeatable deployment pipelines