AWS DevOps Engineer

Job Family:
Software Development & Support (Digital).

Travel Required:

Up to 10%.

Clearance Required:

Ability to Obtain Public Trust.

• Design, automate, and optimize cloud infrastructure and CI/CD pipelines to ensure applications are highly available, scalable, secure, and cost-efficient.
• Mentor junior engineers and drive technical excellence across teams.
• Develop and manage CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, Git Hub Actions, Git Lab CI, AWS Code Pipeline, etc.) and support containerized workloads (Docker, ECS, EKS, Kubernetes).
• Enable automated testing, artifact management, and blue/green or canary deployments.
• Implement observability, monitoring, and logging solutions using AWS Cloud Watch, X‑Ray, or third‑party tools.
• Troubleshoot system performance, latency, and reliability issues; define and maintain SLAs and SLOs.
• Automate provisioning, scaling, monitoring, recovery processes, security scanning, and vulnerability management with CI/CD.
• Ensure systems meet security, governance, and regulatory compliance requirements (HIPAA, FedRAMP, SOC 2, etc.) as applicable.
• Implement IAM best practices, encryption strategies, and secure networking.
• Work closely with developers, architects, and QA to ensure smooth releases.

• US Citizenship and the ability to obtain a public trust clearance.
• Eight (8) years of prior relevant experience in IT infrastructure, with at least five (5) years in cloud engineering, Dev Ops, or infrastructure automation.
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, or a related field (or twelve (12) years of experience in lieu of a degree).
• Expertise in AWS core services (EC2, S3, RDS, Lambda, ECS/EKS, Cloud Front, Route 53, IAM, etc.).
• Hands‑on experience with IaC (Terraform, Cloud Formation, CDK).
• Strong development background in Python, Bash, or similar.
• Autonomous work style with collaboration and mentoring skills.
• Experience guiding senior transition teams with account handoff validation, CI/CD pipeline validation, Git Hub Actions audit, Code Build job review, ArgoCD sync checks, artifact migration, secrets verification, deployment dry‑runs, rollback prep, and cutover support (including monitoring deployment pipeline, build status, troubleshooting, automation, Helm chart/ Docker file maintenance, environment config management, release coordination, developer support).
• Ownership of services like Git Hub Actions, AWS Code Build, ArgoCD, Helm charts, Dockerfiles, secrets management, environment variables, deployment workflows, Terraform templates.

• AWS Certified Dev Ops Engineer – Professional (Highly desirable).
• AWS Certified Solutions Architect or other specialty certifications.

Guidehouse offers a comprehensive, total rewards package that includes competitive compensation and a flexible benefits package reflecting our commitment to a diverse and supportive workplace.

• Medical, Rx, Dental & Vision Insurance
• Personal and Family Sick Time & Company Paid Holidays
• Parental Leave
• 401(k) Retirement Plan
• Group Term Life and Travel Assistance
• Voluntary Life and AD&D Insurance
• Health Savings Account, Health Care & Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts
• Transit and Parking Commuter Benefits
• Short‑Term & Long‑Term Disability
• Tuition Reimbursement, Personal Development, Certifications & Learning Opportunities
• Employee Referral Program
• Corporate Sponsored Events & Community Outreach
• annual membership
• Employee Assistance Program
• Supplemental Benefits via Corestream (Critical Care, Hospital Indemnity, Accident Insurance, Legal Assistance and  protection, etc.)
• Position may be eligible for a discretionary variable incentive bonus

Guidehouse is an Equal Opportunity Employer–Protected Veterans, Individuals with Disabilities or any other basis protected by law, ordinance, or regulation. Guidehouse will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable law or ordinance including the Fair Chance Ordinance of Los Angeles and San Francisco.

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