Sr. AWS Cloud DevOps Engineer

INSPYR Solutions is seeking a highly skilled Sr. Cloud Engineer to support the daily operations and long-term reliability of cloud-based infrastructure. This role is critical for ensuring uptime, performing proactive maintenance, troubleshooting issues, and implementing fixes across cloud environments.

Responsibilities:

• Deploy applications across multiple environments (development, staging, production) and ensure consistency and stability
• Build reusable pipeline templates, jobs, and stages for CI/CD consistency across teams
• Collaborate with developers to containerize and deploy applications using ECS and Lambda
• Configure GitLab Runners and manage environment-specific variables and secrets
• Define and deploy readiness and liveness probes for containers running in EKS/ECS
• Write custom scripts for CloudWatch metrics and alarms based on application-specific probes
• Monitor deployments and system health using CloudWatch and other tools
• Implement rollback strategies and manage version control during deployments
• Troubleshoot and resolve deployment issues; improve pipeline performance and reliability
• Perform daily health checks using AWS CLI or scheduled Lambda scripts; log and report results
• Set up monitoring thresholds, dashboards, and metrics for applications and infrastructure
• Perform root cause analysis and incident correlation using monitoring and performance tools
• Maintain a central inventory of all licensed software deployed in AWS environments
• Maintain accurate documentation on infrastructure and procedures
• Assess and patch infrastructure software, including third-party software
• Develop a patch testing schedule and rollout plan with rollback and recovery procedures
• Create and manage change records; participate in PI planning and Agile ceremonies
• Keep cloud environments compliant with security standards and best practices
• Orchestrate failover and restoration of ECS/EKS services, Lambda functions, databases, and other components
• Test and document regional failover playbooks and recovery runbooks
• Ensure compliance with RTO (Recovery Time Objective) and RPO (Recovery Point Objective) requirements
• Participate in on-call rotations to support 24/7 production systems and respond to incidents

Requirements:

• BA/BS in IT, Computer Science, or related field (or equivalent work experience)
• 8+ years of IT experience, including 5+ years in cloud support, infrastructure maintenance, or IT operations
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CloudFormation)
• Strong proficiency with AWS Lambda (writing, deploying, optimizing)
• Hands-on experience with CI/CD tools (GitHub, GitLab, EKS, Kubernetes, DevOps)
• Scripting skills for automation and maintenance tasks (Bash, Python)
• Cloud certifications (AWS DevOps Engineer, Solutions Architect Associate)
• Strong written and verbal communication skills for technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills
• U.S. Citizen; able to obtain and maintain a Public Trust clearance
• Ability to diagnose performance issues in cloud environments
• Experience with pre-check and post-check scripts for system health validation
• Familiarity with container orchestration (Docker, ECS, Kubernetes)
• Knowledge of ITIL practices or incident management frameworks