Senior Aws Devops Engineer – Remote (Latam, Usd Contract)
Summary
Senior DevOps engineer building and operating AWS infrastructure for 24/7, high-throughput, low-latency systems: Terraform IaC, Jenkins CI/CD, ECS/Docker, Kafka/Aerospike streaming, Prometheus/Grafana observability, plus Python/Bash automation and security hardening. Remote within Latin America, paid as a USD contract.
We are looking for a Senior DevOps Engineer with strong expertise in AWS, infrastructure automation, CI/CD, and managing high-availability, high-throughput, low-latency production environments.
The ideal candidate will ensure infrastructure scalability, reliability, security, and cost efficiency while supporting mission-critical systems operating 24/7.
Experience: 5+ years in DevOps, SRE, or Platform Engineering, supporting 24/7 production environments.
Advanced AWS: ECS/Fargate, ALB/NLB, Auto Scaling, VPC, Transit Gateway, Route 53, ACM, CloudFront, IAM, KMS, Secrets Manager, SSM, and CloudTrail across multiple AWS accounts.
Infrastructure as Code: Advanced Terraform expertise, including reusable versioned modules, S3 remote state, version pinning, and multi-environment deployments (Dev, QA, Integration, Prod).
Containerization: Docker, Dockerfiles, ECR image management, base images, and ECS task definitions.
CI/CD: Jenkins, Groovy, Jenkinsfiles, shared libraries, Java/Maven builds, and Shift-Left security practices.
Streaming & Data Infrastructure: Production experience with Kafka (AWS MSK), Aerospike, and Multi-AZ architectures. Experience with EMR/EMR Serverless, Flink, Airflow, Athena, and S3 Tables.
Monitoring & Observability: Prometheus, Grafana, Graphite, CloudWatch, Fluent Bit, Logstash, OpenSearch, Slack, and SNS alerting.
Automation: Strong Python (boto3), Bash scripting, and AWS Lambda.
Security: Vulnerability management, system patching, credential protection, API key security, and least-privilege access.
Tools & Collaboration: Git, Pull Requests, Jira, Confluence, and AI-powered development tools.
Strong problem-solving skills, independent work capabilities, proactive communication, and data-driven decision-making.
Job Description
We are looking for a Senior DevOps Engineer with strong expertise in AWS, infrastructure automation, CI/CD, and managing high-availability, high-throughput, low-latency production environments.
The ideal candidate will ensure infrastructure scalability, reliability, security, and cost efficiency while supporting mission-critical systems operating 24/7.
Requisitos
Experience: 5+ years in DevOps, SRE, or Platform Engineering, supporting 24/7 production environments.
Advanced AWS: ECS/Fargate, ALB/NLB, Auto Scaling, VPC, Transit Gateway, Route 53, ACM, CloudFront, IAM, KMS, Secrets Manager, SSM, and CloudTrail across multiple AWS accounts.
Infrastructure as Code: Advanced Terraform expertise, including reusable versioned modules, S3 remote state, version pinning, and multi-environment deployments (Dev, QA, Integration, Prod).
Containerization: Docker, Dockerfiles, ECR image management, base images, and ECS task definitions.
CI/CD: Jenkins, Groovy, Jenkinsfiles, shared libraries, Java/Maven builds, and Shift-Left security practices.
Streaming & Data Infrastructure: Production experience with Kafka (AWS MSK), Aerospike, and Multi-AZ architectures. Experience with EMR/EMR Serverless, Flink, Airflow, Athena, and S3 Tables.
Monitoring & Observability: Prometheus, Grafana, Graphite, CloudWatch, Fluent Bit, Logstash, OpenSearch, Slack, and SNS alerting.
Automation: Strong Python (boto3), Bash scripting, and AWS Lambda.
Security: Vulnerability management, system patching, credential protection, API key security, and least-privilege access.
Tools & Collaboration: Git, Pull Requests, Jira, Confluence, and AI-powered development tools.
Strong problem-solving skills, independent work capabilities, proactive communication, and data-driven decision-making.
Skills
- AI
- Airflow
- API
- Athena
- Automation
- AWS
- Bash
- CI/CD
- CloudFront
- CloudTrail
- CloudWatch
- Confluence
- Containerization
- DevOps
- Docker
- ECS
- Fargate
- Flink
- Git
- Grafana
- Groovy
- IAM
- Infrastructure as Code
- Java
- Jenkins
- Jira
- Kafka
- Lambda
- Logstash
- Maven
- Observability
- OpenSearch
- Prometheus
- Python
- S3
- Serverless
- Slack
- SNS
- SRE
- Terraform
- VPC
- Vulnerability Management