AWS DevOps Engineer Jobs

Job Title: AWS DevOps Engineer

Location: Sunnyvale, CA

Duration: 17 Months + Extension

Bill Rate: $82/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 Responsibilities :

• 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 Jenkins, GitLab CI, AWS CodePipeline, or similar tools.
• Automate infrastructure provisioning using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools such as Terraform, CloudFormation, or AWS CDK.
• Develop and maintain monitoring, alerting, and observability solutions for database health using CloudWatch, Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, or OEM.
• Collaborate with DBAs to automate database operations, including backups, patching, failover/switchover, replication setup, and capacity planning.
• Implement and manage High Availability (HA) and Disaster Recovery (DR) strategies across multi-AZ and multi-region AWS environments.
• Develop self-service tools, automation scripts, and runbooks to reduce manual operational efforts for DBA teams.
• Manage database secrets, credentials, and access using AWS Secrets Manager, IAM roles, and least-privilege principles.
• Participate in on-call rotations, incident response, troubleshooting, and Root Cause Analysis (RCA) for database and infrastructure outages.
• Drive AWS cost optimization through resource right-sizing, Reserved Instances, and storage tiering.
• Develop and maintain automation scripts using Python, Bash, and Ansible, along with technical documentation and architecture diagrams.
• Collaborate with security and compliance teams to ensure database infrastructure meets encryption, auditing, and regulatory requirements.

Required Skills :

• Python
• DevOps – Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD)
• Kubernetes
• AWS DevOps and Automation

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.