AWS DevOps Engineer (DRWN)
Summary
Freelance senior DevOps engineer on a 12-month, 100% remote contract supporting a high-traffic consumer marketplace platform: migrating infrastructure to AWS, building CI/CD and internal tooling (including AI-agent workflows), and running a WordPress site at scale using TypeScript, AWS CDK, and serverless services like Lambda, DynamoDB, and Step Functions.
Senior DevOps Engineer (DRWN)
Job title – Senior DevOps Engineer
Client Location – Remote
Remote work offering – 100%
Client Industry – Consumer technology / online marketplace
Contract Length – 12 months
Contract type – Freelance / Contract
Project focus
Join a growing engineering team supporting a high-traffic consumer web platform as it migrates its infrastructure to AWS. You’ll help modernise and harden the systems that deliver the platform to customers, build internal tooling that speeds up how engineers ship code (including tooling that brings AI agents into the development and operations workflow), and support a WordPress-based site at scale.
Key skills and Experience required
- 8+ years deploying and supporting high-traffic, scalable web applications and services
- 5+ years working in an AWS serverless environment (Cognito, Lambda, Step Functions, DynamoDB)
- Strong TypeScript skills and hands‑on experience with the AWS CDK
- Proficient scripting ability (Linux/Unix shell, Python, Ruby, or similar)
- Hands‑on experience with configuration management and deployment tooling
- Strong CI/CD expertise across native AWS services and third‑party tools, including building pipelines and Git competency
- Solid understanding of the software development lifecycle (SDLC)
- Experience defining multi‑account AWS strategies using Amazon Organizations
- Experience integrating SCM, code quality, code coverage, and testing tools into CI/CD pipelines
- Exposure to application and infrastructure monitoring tooling
- Comfortable forecasting AWS billing using the pricing calculator
- Practical experience working with AI coding agents and agentic engineering workflows as part of a modern delivery pipeline
- Familiarity with Spec Driven Development for implementation, testing, and AI agent behaviour
- Hands‑on experience with AWS services including Serverless, CDK, CloudFormation, CodePipeline, GitHub/GitHub Actions, Lambda/Step Functions, SQS, SNS, Kinesis, DynamoDB, EventBridge, X‑Ray, CloudWatch, WAF, and Lake Formation
- Experience with MySQL and Elasticsearch
- AWS Certified DevOps Engineer or AWS Certified Solutions Architect a plus
- Experience in a consumer‑focused technology company a plus
- Domain knowledge in automotive, two‑sided marketplaces, or e‑commerce a plus
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