Senior AWS DevOps Engineer

Job Family Systems Engineering What You Will Do Senior AWS DevOps Engineer to design, automate and optimize cloud infrastructure and CI/CD pipelines while ensuring applications are highly available, scalable, secure and cost‑efficient. Hands‑on experience with AWS services, automation frameworks, and DevOps best practices, while also mentoring junior engineers and driving technical excellence across teams. Develop and manage CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, AWS CodePipeline, etc. Support containerized workloads (Docker, ECS, EKS, Kubernetes). Enable automated testing, artifact management, and blue/green or canary deployments. Implement observability, monitoring and logging solutions with AWS CloudWatch, X‑Ray or third‑party tools. Troubleshoot system performance, latency, reliability issues and define and maintain SLAs, SLOs. Automate provisioning, scaling, monitoring, recovery processes, security scanning and vulnerability management within CI/CD. Ensure systems meet security, governance and regulatory compliance requirements (HIPAA, FedRAMP, SOC2, etc.). Implement IAM best practices, encryption strategies and secure networking. Work closely with developers, architects and QA to ensure smooth releases. What You Will Need Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering or related field; or four (4) years of expedience in lieu of a degree. Minimum six (6) years of relevant IT infrastructure experience, including five (5) years in cloud engineering, DevOps or infrastructure automation. Expertise in AWS core services (EC2, S3, RDS, Lambda, ECS/EKS, CloudFront, Route53, IAM, etc.). Hands‑on experience with IaC tools (Terraform, CloudFormation, CDK). Strong development background in Python, Bash or similar. Proven ability to work autonomously and collaborate, mentor and support other team members. Knowledge of security, governance and regulatory compliance (HIPAA, FedRAMP, SOC2, etc.). Experience with GitHub Actions, AWS CodeBuild, ArgoCD, Helm charts and Terraform templates. Candidates must be legally authorized to work in the United States without employer sponsorship. Citizens or lawful permanent residents (Green Card holders) are required to obtain and maintain a Federal or DoD "PUBLIC TRUST" before onboarding. An active Public Trust or Suitability is preferred. Nice to Have AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Professional (highly desirable). AWS Certified Solutions Architect or other specialty certifications. Benefits Medical, Rx, Dental and Vision insurance. Personal and Family Sick Time and Company Paid Holidays. Parental Leave. 401(k) retirement plan. Group Term Life and Travel Assistance. Voluntary Life and AD&D insurance. Health Savings Account and Health Care & Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts. Transit and Parking commuter benefits. Short‑Term & Long‑Term Disability coverage. Tuition reimbursement, personal development and certifications. Employee referral program and corporate sponsored events. Supplemental benefits via Corestream (Critical Care, Hospital Indemnity, Accident Insurance, Legal Assistance and ID theft protection). Discretionary variable incentive bonus may be available. Equal Opportunity Employer Guidehouse is an Equal Opportunity Employer–Protected Veterans, Individuals with Disabilities or any other basis protected by law, ordinance, or regulation. Guidehouse will consider for employment qualified applicants who have criminal histories in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable law or ordinance including the Fair Chance Ordinance of Los Angeles and San Francisco. #J-18808-Ljbffr