Sr. DevOps AWS Cloud Engineer

H1 is a company dedicated to providing access to healthcare information globally, promoting health equity. They are seeking a Senior DevOps / AWS Cloud Engineer to design, scale, and operate their cloud infrastructure, ensuring high availability, security, and efficiency in a fast-paced environment.

Responsibilities:

• Architect, automate, and scale AWS infrastructure using Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC), enabling secure and reliable self-service for engineering teams
• Own and evolve CI/CD pipelines and deployment workflows across a growing portfolio of services and applications
• Lead efforts to improve system reliability, availability, observability, and performance across production environments
• Serve as a senior escalation point for infrastructure incidents, driving incident response, root cause analysis, and long-term remediation
• Design and implement monitoring, alerting, and logging strategies to proactively identify and resolve system issues
• Partner with engineering and data teams to support containerized workloads and Kubernetes-based services (Amazon EKS)
• Optimize cloud infrastructure for cost, performance, and scalability using metrics, forecasting, and usage analysis
• Champion cloud security best practices, IAM design, and infrastructure governance in partnership with security stakeholders
• Evaluate, recommend, and implement new tools and services that improve platform reliability and developer experience
• Mentor and support other DevOps engineers through technical guidance, reviews, and knowledge sharing
• Participate in a light on-call rotation and help mature operational processes and runbooks

Requirements:

• 8+ years of hands-on experience building and operating cloud infrastructure, with significant experience in AWS
• Deep expertise in AWS services, including compute, networking, storage, and security (EC2, ECS/EKS, VPC, IAM, RDS, etc.)
• Strong proficiency with Infrastructure as Code using tools such as Terraform and CloudFormation
• Extensive experience designing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines using tools such as GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, or CircleCI
• Solid experience supporting Kubernetes-based workloads, including Amazon EKS
• Strong experience with monitoring and observability stacks (Prometheus, Grafana, CloudWatch, ELK/OpenSearch)
• Proficiency in scripting and automation using Python and Bash
• Strong understanding of cloud security best practices, IAM, and incident response processes
• Experience leading or significantly contributing to incident response, postmortems, and reliability improvements
• A proven track record designing, implementing, and supporting highly available, 24x7 SaaS platforms in AWS
• Deep experience with cloud-native and containerized architectures in production environments
• Strong working knowledge of networking fundamentals (HTTP/S, SSH, VPNs, firewalls, VPC design)
• Experience contributing to security governance, infrastructure standards, and compliance initiatives
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to influence across engineering and non-engineering teams
• A team-first mindset and commitment to building inclusive, scalable engineering practices