V-Soft Consulting Group is a leading staffing company known for its innovative technology services. They are seeking a DevOps Engineer III to administer and support AWS infrastructure, monitor system health, and enhance cloud security posture.
Responsibilities:
- Administer and support AWS infrastructure, including compute, storage, networking, and identity services
- Monitor system health, availability, and performance across cloud workloads
- Manage deployments, configuration changes, and environment provisioning using infrastructure as code and automation tools
- Troubleshoot service disruptions, performance degradation, and integration issues
- Optimize cloud resource utilization and cost management through rightsizing and lifecycle controls
- Maintain backup, recovery, and disaster recovery readiness for critical systems
- Monitor cloud security telemetry, logs, and alerts to identify potential threats or anomalous behavior
- Investigate security events and coordinate incident response activities
- Maintain and tune detection rules, alert thresholds, and monitoring dashboards
- Support vulnerability management, patching, and remediation tracking for cloud resources
- Assist with security audits, compliance evidence collection, and control validation
- Collaborate with security engineering and governance teams to strengthen cloud security posture
- Implement automated monitoring, alerting, and remediation where feasible
- Develop and maintain operational dashboards and reporting for system health and security status
- Contribute to runbooks, standard operating procedures, and incident response documentation
- Identify recurring operational or security issues and recommend long-term corrective actions
- Participate in on call rotation and post incident reviews
Requirements:
- Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Cybersecurity, Computer Science, or related field, or equivalent experience
- Strong analytical, documentation, and communication skills
- 5-7+ years of experience operating and supporting workloads in AWS environments
- Hands on experience with cloud monitoring, logging, and alerting tools
- Foundational understanding of networking, identity and access management, and system administration
- Experience investigating incidents, troubleshooting outages, or responding to security alerts
- Familiarity with scripting or automation (e.g., PowerShell, Python, or Bash)
- Operational reliability and accountability
- Security awareness and risk management
- Problem solving and incident response
- Automation and continuous improvement mindset
- Collaboration across technical and business teams
- Experience with cloud security services, SIEM, or threat detection platforms
- Knowledge of infrastructure as code (e.g., Terraform, CloudFormation, or similar tools)
- Familiarity with vulnerability scanning and remediation processes
- Understanding of compliance or regulatory frameworks (e.g., NIST, CIS, or similar standards)
- Relevant industry certifications (e.g., AWS Certified Solutions Architect, AWS Security Specialty, Security+, or similar)
- Experience configuring and hardening cloud services to align with organizational security and operational standards