Engineer, Application Operations (Remote)
• Management of DevOps for AWS (Amazon Web Services); Owning infrastructure code; making required changes
- Release Management: Take releases, own process and relevant improvements, and drive to success;
- Ability to drive process in additional platforms over time
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- Familiarity with configuring AWS services for example:
- Lambdas
- DynamoDB
- API Gateway
- SNS
- SQS
- SES
- Cognito
- IAM
- S3
- EventBridge
Cybersecurity
- Distill findings from security team and address any actions
- Map security callouts raised by security team to applicable AWS service
- Create actionable list of items
- Execute against the list of items to resolve security findings
- Continuously monitor and address findings from automated scans
Reporting & Observability
- Continuously maintaining monitoring and alerting for various AWS services to ensure quick triage by the team in the event of failure or outage
- Configuration of notification mechanisms
Required Work Experience:
- 4+ years in application operations, SRE, or platform engineering in a cloud-native environment (AWS preferred)
Knowledge:
- Strong understanding of serverless architectures (Lambda, API Gateway, DynamoDB, SQS/SNS, EventBridge)
- Deep knowledge of modern authentication/authorization — OAuth 2.0, JWT, PKCE, mutual TLS, API key management
- Familiarity with OWASP, CIS Benchmarks, NIST 800-53, or SOC2 controls
Skills:
- Hands-on CI/CD experience (GitHub Actions, CodePipeline, ArgoCD, or similar). Writing associated configuration files to accommodate build/deployment requirements
- Experience with security tooling — SAST/DAST scanners, dependency auditing, secrets management, WAF configuration
- Proficiency with observability platforms (CloudWatch, X-Ray, Datadog, Grafana, or equivalent)
- Strong scripting (Bash, Python, or Node.js) for automation, incident response tooling, and reporting
- Experience managing DLQs, event replay, and ensuring idempotency in distributed systems
Preferred Knowledge/Skills:
- HIPAA-compliant infrastructure experience
- AWS Security Specialty or equivalent certification
- Experience with SIEM platforms (Splunk, Sentinel, or CloudWatch Logs Insights at scale)
- FinOps awareness — correlating cost with operational and security posture
Education:
- Bachelor's Degree or equivalent experience