AWS Devops Engineer

• Job ID:

J54703

• Job Title:

AWS Devops Engineer

• Location:

Austin, TX

• Duration:

13 Months + Extension

• Domain Exposure:

Government

• Client:

To Be Discussed Later

• Employment Type:

W-2, 1099, C2C

• Work Authorization:

US Citizen, Green Card, H-1B, OPT-EAD, CPT, Other

Job Title: AWS Devops Engineer

Location: Austin, TX

Duration: 13 Months + Extension

Bill Rate: $66/hour (C2C)

Job Type: W-2, 1099, C2C

Client: To Be Discussed Later

Work Authorization: US Citizen, Green Card, OPT-EAD, CPT, H-1B, H4-EAD, Other

Job Responsibility:

• Design, provision, and manage AWS infrastructure supporting production and non-production database environments.
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines for database deployments, schema migrations, and configuration management using tools like Jenkins, GitLab CI, CodePipeline, or similar.
• Automate infrastructure provisioning using Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform, CloudFormation, or AWS CDK).
• Develop and maintain monitoring, alerting, and observability solutions for database health (CPU, memory, replication lag, disk I/O, connection pools) using tools such as CloudWatch, Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, or OEM.
• Collaborate with DBAs to automate routine database operations: backups, patching, failover/switchover, replication setup (Data Guard, GoldenGate, native replication), and capacity planning.
• Implement and manage High Availability (HA) and Disaster Recovery (DR) strategies across multi-AZ/multi-region AWS environments.
• Build self-service tooling and runbooks to reduce manual operational overhead for the DBA team.
• Manage secrets, credentials, and database access using AWS Secrets Manager, IAM roles, and least-privilege principles.
• Participate in on-call rotation, incident response, and root cause analysis (RCA) for database/infrastructure outages.
• Drive cost optimization initiatives for database infrastructure (right-sizing, reserved instances, storage tiering).
• Write and maintain documentation, automation scripts (Python, Bash, Ansible), and architecture diagrams.
• Partner with security/compliance teams to ensure database infrastructure meets encryption, auditing, and regulatory requirements.

Equal Opportunity

Employer

We are an equal opportunity employer. All aspects of employment including the decision to hire, promote, discipline, or discharge, will be based on merit, competence, performance, and business needs.

We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, marital status, age, national origin, ancestry, physical or mental disability, medical condition, pregnancy, genetic information, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, citizenship/ immigration status, veteran status, or any other status protected under federal, state, or local law.