AWS Cloud DevOps Engineer - Secure, Compliant Ops

JOB SUMMARY
Client is seeking an experienced Cloud Dev Ops Engineer to join our team as a non-associate contractor. This position is strictly focused on operations, maintenance, and enterprise compliance for an existing, critical third-party application deployed within our AWS environment. The core mission is to keep this existing application running smoothly, optimize its infrastructure, and ensure it remains 100% compliant with Client’s rigorous enterprise security standards and initiatives.

The ideal candidate will have a strong operational mindset, thriving in environments that require rapid vulnerability remediation, robust secrets management, and meticulous adherence to financial sector compliance.

Key Responsibilities
Application & Infrastructure Maintenance:
Ensuring the high availability, stability, and optimal performance of the existing third-party application hosted on AWS.
Compliance & Enterprise Initiatives:
Actively managing and executing compliance mandates driven by Client enterprise initiatives. This includes updating infrastructure and configuration templates to meet evolving corporate security policies.
Vulnerability Remediation:
Identifying, prioritizing, and patching vulnerabilities within the application ecosystem, container images, and underlying OS layers.
Secrets & Certificate Management:
Maintaining and troubleshooting automated secrets rotation policies using AWS Secrets Manager to ensure zero downtime during credential cycles.
Environment Configuration:
Managing and updating existing Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and Chef cookbooks to support patches, upgrades, and configuration changes.
Monitoring & Incident Response:
Utilizing New Relic and AWS Cloud Watch to monitor application health, analyze logs, troubleshoot production issues, and proactively resolve infrastructure bottlenecks.

Required Qualifications
AWS Operational

Experience:

Deep familiarity with managing and supporting existing infrastructure across core AWS services:
Security & Identity:
Secrets Manager (with automated rotation), KMS, IAM, ELB. Compute & Serverless: EC2, Lambda. Storage & Databases: S3, RDS, DMS (Database Migration Service). Monitoring:
Cloud Watch.
Code Literacy:
Ability to read and debug Powershell and/or Python code to diagnose application errors, analyze stack traces, or modify automation scripts.
Vulnerability Management:
Proven track record of interpreting security scan results and executing rapid patching across systems, applications, and Docker containers.
Configuration Management & IaC:
Hands-on experience maintaining and updating existing Chef cookbooks and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) frameworks.
Observability Tools:
Strong experience troubleshooting live production issues using New Relic and AWS Cloud Watch logs/dashboards.
Version Control:
Proficiency with Git Hub for maintaining configuration code and following standard enterprise pull-request/approval workflows.

Preferred Qualifications
Recent financial client

Experience:

Highly preferred. Prior experience navigating Client s internal compliance frameworks, enterprise security initiatives, and delivery processes is a massive advantage.
Third-Party Software Support:
Experience managing and maintaining vendor-provided applications (specifically Actimize or similar financial crime/compliance platforms, Tomcat, Oracle) is highly valued.

Certifications
AWS

Certifications:

Active AWS certifications, such as AWS Certified Security - Specialty or AWS Certified Dev Ops Engineer.