AWS Operations Engineer

AWS Operations Engineer

Location:

Richfield, MN 55423 Onsite Duration: 9 Months of Contract

Key Responsibilities:

• Plan, coordinate, and execute application releases across multiple environments (Dev, QA, UAT, Prod)
• Manage release schedules, versioning, and rollback strategies
• Ensure zero or low-downtime deployments using blue-, canary, or rolling deployment strategies
• Manage and support AWS infrastructure used for releases and deployments
• Perform system monitoring and log analysis
• Collaborate with developers and QA teams to resolve deployment defects
• Ensure compliance with security and change management standards
• Provide on-call or scheduled production release support (24X7)
• Perform root cause analysis (RCA) for release and deployment failures
• Create and maintain release documentation and runbooks

Must Have Skills for this Role:

• AWS Devops (S3, EC2, ECS/EKS)
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and CI/CD tools such as Jenkins, Git Hub Actions, or Git Lab CI
• Knowledge of Git or other version control systems
• Understanding of release management best practices
• At least 2-3 years of experience required for each skill

Nice to Have

Skills:

• Basic Unix/Linux commands
• Python
• Monitoring and logging tools (Splunk, ELK, Dynatrace)

Responsibilities:

• Has skills to develop and maintain automation scripts using Bash/Shell
• Automate build, deployment, monitoring, and cleanup tasks
• Continuously improving the reliability and speed of release processes
• ITIL or Change Management experience
• Security and compliance awareness in release processes
• Strong troubleshooting and analytical skills
• Excellent communication and cross-team collaboration abilities
• Ability to work under tight release deadlines and production pressure
• High attention to detail and strong ownership mindset