DevOps Engineer (AWS / GitHub Actions)

Description

Summary: Seeking an experienced DevOps Engineer with strong AWS operational expertise to modernize infrastructure, tighten production support, and drive CI/CD transformation in a hands-on role. Highlights: 1. Modernize infrastructure and drive CI/CD transformation 2. Hands-on engineering to build a mature DevOps function 3. Headline project: moving AWS codebase into GitHub Actions The company is looking for an experienced **DevOps Engineer with strong AWS operational expertise** to modernize their infrastructure, tighten production support, and drive a CI/CD transformation. This is a hands\-on engineering role — the person builds a mature DevOps function from the inside and works closely, day to day, with Oscar. The headline project: moving the company AWS codebase into GitHub Actions. Requirements: Must\-have: * **AWS infrastructure \& operations** — EC2, Auto Scaling, Load Balancers, VPC networking fundamentals, operational troubleshooting * **GitHub Actions** — required. Workflow design, reusable workflows, secrets/OIDC, migrating existing pipelines in * **CI/CD \& deployment automation** — pipeline design and standardization, release management practices * **Infrastructure as Code** — Terraform or CloudFormation * **Monitoring \& observability** — dashboard design, alerting strategy, monitoring cleanup and rationalization (Datadog or an equivalent tool; they may move off Datadog) * **Cost optimization \& capacity planning** — AWS spend analysis, resource optimization, scaling and de\-scaling strategy * **AWS security** — WAF administration and security best practices * **Production support** — incident detection and response process Nice\-to\-have: * Datadog specifically (administration and optimization) * Slack integrations for alerting * Containers — ECS / EKS / Docker * Scripting — Python or Bash * Financial services or other regulated\-environment background * AWS certification (SysOps Administrator / Solutions Architect / DevOps Engineer Professional)