Senior DevOps Engineer - Cloud Platform Engineering

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UST is searching for a Senior Dev Ops Engineer to join our Cloud Platform Engineering team. This is a role for an engineer who thinks in code first, infrastructure second - someone who can bridge complex business problems and cloud solutions, while enabling product teams to build faster through reusable frameworks, shared constructs, and Dev Sec Ops  best practices.

• Translate complex business and technical requirements into scalable cloud-native solutions on AWS
• Own and evolve CI/CD pipelines using AWS Code Pipeline and Code Build, embedding Dev Sec Ops  practices at every stage
• Design and maintain container build and deployment pipelines using Docker, ECR, ECS, and Fargate
• Define ECS task definitions, service configurations, and Fargate capacity strategies for production workloads
• Define and enforce cloud engineering standards, guardrails, and best practices across product teams
• Collaborate with and enable high-performing software and Dev Sec Ops  engineers - acting as the technical bridge across disciplines

Has built or maintained a reusable CDK construct library consumed by multiple teams

This position description identifies the responsibilities and tasks typically associated with the performance of the position. Other relevant essential functions may be required .

• Understands CDK pipeline patterns, bootstrapping, and cross-account deployments Cloud Formation
• Able to read, write, and troubleshoot raw Cloud Formation templates - not just via CDK abstraction
• Experience with nested stacks, stack drift detection, and change sets
• Understands the relationship between CDK synth output and underlying Cloud Formation CI/CD - AWS Code Pipeline & Code Build
• Experience with pipeline-as-code, artifact management via ECR, and multi-stage deployments
• Integrates security scanning and automated gates into pipeline stages Dev Sec Ops  Practices
• Embeds security controls across the SDLC - not treated as a separate phase
• Experience with IAM least-privilege design, secrets management, and policy-as-code
• Familiar with SAST/DAST tools, container image scanning, and compliance guardrails Docker, ECS & Fargate
• Hands-on experience authoring and optimizing production Dockerfiles, including multi-stage builds and image size/security optimization
• Experience designing and operating Amazon ECS services and task definitions
• Hands-on with AWS Fargate - capacity providers, sizing, and cost/performance trade-offs
• Experience managing Amazon ECR repositories, lifecycle policies, and image scanning, integrated into CI/CD pipelines

• (Nice to Have) These skills will strengthen a candidate's profile but are not a hard requirement. AWS Certifications
• AWS Solutions Architect
  - Professional
• AWS Dev Ops Engineer
  - Professional
• AWS Developer
  - Associate Core Technology Stack Area Technologies Containers Docker, Amazon ECS, Amazon ECR, AWS Fargate (Must) Infrastructure as Code AWS CDK - L2/L3 Constructs (Must), Cloud Formation (Must) CI/CD & Dev Sec Ops  Code Pipeline, Code Build, ECR (Must), Git Hub AWS Services Lambda, IAM, VPC, S3, RDS, Cloud Watch, ECS/EKS Practices Dev Sec Ops  (Must), Git Ops, Disaster Recovery, Operational Excellence

Compensation can differ depending on factors including but not limited to the specific office location, role, skill set, education, and level of experience. UST provides a reasonable range of compensation for roles that may be hired in various U.S. markets as set forth below.

$122,000-$183,000

Full-time, regular employees accrue a minimum of 10 days of paid vacation per year, receive 6 days of paid sick leave each year (pro-rated for new hires throughout the year), 10 paid holidays, and are eligible for paid bereavement leave and jury duty. They are eligible to participate in the Company's 401(k) Retirement Plan with employer matching. They and their dependents residing in the US are eligible for medical, dental, and vision insurance, as well as the following Company-paid Employee Only benefits: basic life insurance, accidental death and disability insurance, and short- and long-term disability benefits.

Regular employees may purchase additional voluntary short-term disability benefits, and participate in a…