AWS DevOps Data Engineer

Railroad19, Inc is a company that develops customized software solutions and provides software development services. They are seeking an experienced AWS DevOps Data Engineer to support a large enterprise media organization, blending hands-on engineering with DevOps direction and AWS best practices.

Responsibilities:

• Build and support AWS infrastructure (EMR, ECS, Lambda, IAM)
• Create POCs and reference implementations to guide teams on AWS best practices
• Own and manage GitLab (runners, permissions, pipelines) and support the transition to GitHub Actions
• Coordinate and enable multiple engineering teams to adopt consistent DevOps workflows
• Develop Python‑based ETL/automation scripts
• Build and maintain Airflow DAGs for data workflows
• Improve CI/CD pipelines, automation, and platform reliability
• Collaborate across engineering, data, product, and security teams in a large enterprise environment

Requirements:

• 4–8+ years in cloud engineering, DevOps, or data engineering
• Strong AWS experience (EMR, ECS, Lambda, IAM)
• Python development skills
• Airflow production experience
• Hands‑on GitLab experience; GitHub Actions a plus
• Ability to guide teams, influence standards, and operate in a complex enterprise setting
• Media/entertainment industry experience
• Terraform or CloudFormation
• Spark or distributed data processing
• Strong communication and documentation skills
• AWS Certifications