Senior DevOps Engineer, AWS

About the role

We are seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer with deep AWS expertise to design, build and maintain scalable, secure, highly‑available cloud infrastructure for our clients in Georgia. The role spans networking, compute, containers, databases and CI/CD pipelines while championing automation, observability and security best‑practices.

Key responsibilities

• Design and maintain IAM roles and policies with least‑privilege and cross‑account access.
• Build and manage VPC topology, subnets, route tables, NAT/Internet Gateways and security groups across AZs.
• Provision EC2 instances and Auto Scaling groups, applying cost‑optimization strategies.
• Configure ALB/NLB load balancers, target groups, health checks and TLS termination.
• Deploy and maintain container clusters on ECS/Fargate or EKS, including autoscaling and version upgrades.
• Manage ECR repositories, lifecycle policies, vulnerability scanning and access controls.
• Organize and secure S3 buckets with versioning, lifecycle rules and encryption.
• Deploy and maintain RDS/Aurora databases with Multi‑AZ, backups and performance monitoring.
• Set up CloudWatch dashboards, alarms and log‑based alerting for observability.
• Manage encryption keys and secrets using KMS and Secrets Manager.
• Configure CloudFront distributions and Route 53 DNS zones and routing policies.
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines and Infrastructure as Code using Terraform or CloudFormation.

Required profile

• 5+ years of experience in DevOps or Cloud Engineering with a strong focus on AWS.
• Senior‑level expertise in designing and operating complex cloud environments.
• Ability to work remotely from anywhere in Georgia.
• Strong analytical and problem‑solving skills with a proactive approach.

Required skills

• AWS IAM, VPC, EC2, Auto Scaling, ALB/NLB
• ECS/Fargate, EKS, Docker, ECR
• S3, RDS, Aurora
• CloudWatch, KMS, Secrets Manager
• CloudFront, Route 53
• Terraform, CloudFormation
• GitLab CI, GitHub Actions, Jenkins
• Bash, Python