Senior AWS DevOps Engineer

Technatomy Corporation is dedicated to delivering innovative solutions for various agencies, including the Department of Veterans Affairs and Department of Defense. They are seeking a Senior AWS DevOps Engineer to provide technical leadership and hands-on support for their Digital Transformation Center Integration Platform, responsible for AWS infrastructure and DevOps capabilities.

Responsibilities:

• Design, deploy, and lead the operation of AWS-based infrastructure supporting the DIP platform and its integrations
• Own platform reliability objectives, including high availability, fault tolerance, and operational resilience supporting 24x7 monitoring and uptime expectations
• Architect and optimize AWS services including EC2, EKS, ECS, Lambda, S3, VPC, Route 53, IAM, and CloudWatch
• Lead capacity planning, performance optimization, and cost-management strategies across environments
• Establish and maintain infrastructure standards, operational runbooks, and environment documentation
• Design, build, and govern CI/CD pipelines supporting Java-based API and integration deployments
• Lead Infrastructure as Code (IaC) practices using Terraform and AWS CloudFormation to ensure repeatability and consistency
• Architect and support containerized workloads using Docker and Kubernetes-based platforms
• Partner closely with software engineering teams to improve build, test, deployment, and release reliability
• Implement and refine progressive deployment strategies, rollback mechanisms, and release controls
• Design and maintain monitoring, logging, and alerting solutions using CloudWatch, Datadog, and related tooling
• Lead incident response, root-cause analysis, and post-incident improvement activities
• Drive improvements to observability, resiliency, and operational readiness across the platform
• Implement and enforce AWS security best practices for identity, access management, and network controls
• Oversee secure handling of secrets, credentials, and sensitive configuration data
• Provide technical leadership for activities supporting ATO renewal and ongoing compliance requirements
• Collaborate with security, governance, and architecture stakeholders to remediate findings and apply platform improvements
• Mentor junior and mid-level DevOps engineers and see consistent engineering practices across the team

Requirements:

• 6–9+ years of experience in AWS DevOps, Cloud Engineering, or related roles, including senior-level ownership of production platforms
• Deep, hands-on experience managing AWS infrastructure and services in complex production environments
• Advanced experience designing and operating CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI/CD, or similar tools
• Strong expertise with Infrastructure as Code using Terraform and/or AWS CloudFormation
• Extensive experience with containerization and orchestration technologies (Docker, Kubernetes, EKS)
• Strong scripting and automation skills using Bash, Python, or similar languages
• Strong understanding of networking, cloud security principles, and distributed system operations
• Proven experience supporting systems with uptime, SLA, and on-call or operational support expectations
• Experience working in Agile delivery environments with cross-functional engineering teams
• Ability to communicate complex technical concepts clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related discipline, or equivalent experience
• Must be able to obtain and maintain a Public Trust clearance
• This position requires U.S. citizenship or Green Card
• Experience working with Federal agencies, particularly the Department of Veterans Affairs, is a plus
• Experience supporting integration platforms, APIs, or middleware ecosystems
• Hands-on experience with observability platforms such as Datadog
• Experience operating platforms subject to compliance, authorization, or audit requirements
• AWS certifications (Professional or advanced Associate-level) are preferred