Senior AWS DevOps Engineer – Remote (Night Shift)

About the role

We are looking for a Senior AWS DevOps Engineer to own and evolve our cloud infrastructure and DevOps practices. The role is fully remote, works night‑shift hours, and collaborates with US‑based leadership and globally distributed engineering teams.

Key responsibilities

• Design, implement, and operate highly available, scalable AWS infrastructure (EC2, RDS, ALB/NLB, VPC, security groups).
• Drive capacity planning, cost‑effective scaling, and performance tuning.
• Maintain cloud security posture, IAM least‑privilege access, network security, intrusion detection, and patch management.
• Implement backup, disaster recovery, and high‑availability strategies.
• Build and maintain monitoring, logging, and alerting (CloudWatch and third‑party tools); lead incident response and root‑cause analysis.
• Develop infrastructure as code using Terraform (or CloudFormation) and support CI/CD pipelines.
• Provide guidance on architecture, scalability, security, and operational best practices across engineering teams.

Required profile

• Minimum 5 years of experience in DevOps, SRE, or cloud infrastructure roles.
• Proven experience operating production AWS environments.
• Strong background in system reliability, security, and performance.
• Excellent problem‑solving skills and attention to detail.

Required skills

• AWS services: EC2, RDS, Elastic Load Balancing, Autoscaling, VPC, IAM.
• Infrastructure as Code: Terraform (preferred) or CloudFormation.
• Linux systems administration.
• Scripting: Bash, Python (or similar).
• Monitoring & observability: CloudWatch, logging, alerting tools.
• Security: intrusion detection, vulnerability remediation.
• CI/CD pipeline design and automation.
• Experience supporting Ruby applications (optional).