[Remote] Sr. DevOps Engineer (REMOTE)
Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Cyware is hiring a Senior DevOps Engineer to build, secure, and operate infrastructure supporting product environments in AWS and AWS GovCloud. The role owns CI/CD, deployment, and operational reliability across commercial and government environments, with a focus on security, availability, and compliance.
Responsibilities
- Work closely with development teams to integrate projects into production AWS and AWS GovCloud environments and ensure ongoing support
- Design, build, and maintain CI/CD pipelines using Bitbucket Pipelines, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, or equivalent; support Helm chart packaging and ArgoCD/GitOps deployment into Kubernetes
- Operate and harden infrastructure within compliance-heavy authorization boundaries such as FedRAMP High, GovRAMP Moderate, and IL5, maintaining continuous compliance across releases
- Own environment segmentation, secrets management, and access controls consistent with NIST 800-53 and FedRAMP control families
- Manage Kubernetes workloads, Helm chart versioning, and release promotion across development, staging, commercial, and GovCloud production environments
- Build reliable, scalable infrastructure services in AWS and support infrastructure for both cloud and on-premise deployments
- Implement infrastructure as code using Terraform, CloudFormation, or CDK for repeatable, auditable provisioning
- Support database deployment and schema migration using Postgres, Flyway, or equivalent tooling tied to release cycles
- Build monitoring, logging, alerting, and operational automation to meet government-grade availability and incident-response requirements
- Partner with Security/GRC to prepare and maintain evidence for FedRAMP/GovRAMP continuous monitoring, POA&Ms, annual assessments, and audit cycles
- Participate in incident response and root-cause analysis for GovCloud-hosted environments, with documentation meeting government audit standards
- Gain deep application-level knowledge of systems and contribute to their overall design; troubleshoot application, deployment, and operations issues
- Build engineering automation and productivity tools to streamline and scale production applications while minimizing manual interaction
- Collaborate with Product, Engineering, Solution Architecture, and Security/GRC to keep commercial and government environments aligned with the product roadmap without compliance drift
- Be a DevOps champion by building security, reliability, scalability, and best practices into the development lifecycle
Skills
- You are driven, inquisitive, proactive, and energetic
- You have a growth mindset and are committed to delivering results
- You thrive in a fast-paced, collaborative environment
- You are passionate about cloud engineering, DevOps, automation, security, reliability, and scalable systems
- US Citizenship is a requirement of this position in accordance with 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(2)(C)
- 5+ years of experience in DevOps/Platform/Site Reliability Engineering, with 2+ years operating workloads in AWS GovCloud
- Hands-on experience deploying and maintaining infrastructure under FedRAMP High or Moderate, GovRAMP/StateRAMP, or DoD IL5 authorization frameworks
- Must be able to obtain and maintain a security clearance; active or eligible for a federal security clearance
- Working knowledge of NIST 800-53 controls and how they translate into infrastructure and pipeline design
- Strong hands-on experience with Kubernetes, Helm, and GitOps (ArgoCD or equivalent)
- Hands-on experience with AWS, Google Cloud, Azure, or equivalent cloud services
- Experience with CI/CD pipeline engineering using Bitbucket Pipelines, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, CircleCI, or equivalent
- Experience with infrastructure-as-code tools including Terraform, CloudFormation, or CDK
- Experience with configuration-management/automation tools such as Chef, Puppet, Ansible, Rundeck, or equivalent
- Experience with queuing systems such as RabbitMQ, Kafka, SQS, or equivalent
- Experience with relational database deployment/migration tooling such as Postgres and Flyway, or equivalent
- Experience supporting continuous monitoring, POA&M remediation, assessment, and audit cycles
- Basic knowledge of networking concepts such as subnets and environment segmentation
- Experience with containers and orchestration tools such as Kubernetes
- Ability to create infrastructure services for both cloud and on-premise deployments
- Exposure to Linux, EC2 security, AWS CLI, S3, CloudWatch, CloudTrail, SSH, Docker, Git, Jenkins, CircleCI, Nagios, JMeter, and BlazeMeter
- Experience with startup environments and lean, collaborative engineering teams
- Knowledge of MongoDB, Python/Django, data structures, and algorithms is an added advantage
- Prior experience at a cybersecurity or SaaS vendor maintaining a FedRAMP-authorized environment through initial ATO and ongoing ConMon
- AWS certifications such as Solutions Architect or DevOps Engineer Professional
- Experience with container security scanning and software supply-chain security, including SBOM and image signing, in a government context
- Familiarity with SOAR/TIP or broader cybersecurity product environments
Benefits
- Comprehensive benefits package including time off, paid holidays, retirement plans, insurance coverage and much more.
- Professional development opportunities.
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