This is a hybrid role, based in any of our US offices—including New York City, Boston, Chicago, Carmel, or San Francisco—or remotely within the US, depending on team and business needs.
Key Responsibilities
Build and maintain AWS reference architectures using services such as ECS/Fargate, EKS, Lambda, RDS, and S3.
Develop and operate GitHub Actions CI/CD pipelines with:
Establish and operate environments that increase in level of pipeline complexity and security requirements as they progress, enforcing peer review and deployment controls.
Define and maintain “lift patterns” to transition apps from prototype environments into AWS-hosted staging and production.
Provision and manage AWS infrastructure (compute, storage, networking, databases, backups) and lead HA/DR design for production systems.
Operate the observability stack (metrics, logs, traces, alerting) leveraging AWS native and integrated tooling.
Implement cost governance practices:
Tagging strategies
Cost monitoring (AWS Cost Explorer, Budgets)
Partner with Information Security on pipeline integrated controls (image scanning, secrets management, IAM aware pipelines).
Provide onboarding support and office hours for developers preparing for production promotion.
Maintain runbooks and incident response playbooks; participate in on-call rotation.
Required Qualifications
3+ years operating production workloads in AWS environments
Strong experience with Terraform (IaC lifecycle, state management, modules)
Experience designing CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions
Working knowledge of:
AWS IAM and least-privilege access design
OIDC federation between GitHub and AWS
Experience supporting SLAs, incident response, and on-call operations
Preferred Qualifications
Experience with ECS/Fargate, EKS, or AWS Lambda
Exposure to FinOps and AWS cost governance practices
Familiarity with AI-assisted development tools (Replit, Cursor, Claude Code)
Additional Notes
Primary Platform: AWS + GitHub
On-call: Participation in a shared rotation supporting production systems (details provided during interview process)
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