Sr. DevOps Engineer

Forta Solutions is seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer to design, automate, secure, and maintain its AWS infrastructure and software delivery systems. The role focuses on platform reliability, deployment efficiency, security, scalability, observability, and cost management while collaborating with engineering and related teams.

Responsibilities:

• Design and maintain secure, scalable AWS infrastructure across multi-account environments, including networking, access controls, high availability, disaster recovery, and capacity planning
• Build reusable infrastructure components and platform standards supporting reliability, security, observability, and cost efficiency
• Develop containerized and serverless environments using technologies such as Amazon ECS, Fargate, Lambda, SQS, and EventBridge
• Build and improve CI/CD pipelines using GitLab or comparable platforms, incorporating automated testing, security controls, validation, rollback, and progressive delivery
• Develop infrastructure as code with Terraform, Terragrunt, and related automation tools
• Automate operational processes to reduce manual work, configuration drift, deployment risk, and operational toil
• Improve monitoring, logging, tracing, alerts, service-health measures, and reliability objectives using Datadog or comparable platforms
• Troubleshoot production issues, participate in incident response, and contribute to post-incident reviews and corrective actions
• Apply cloud-security best practices, including least-privilege access, encryption, secrets management, and vulnerability remediation
• Identify and implement AWS cost-optimization opportunities
• Maintain technical documentation, architecture diagrams, operational procedures, and engineering standards
• Collaborate with application teams, participate in technical reviews, and mentor colleagues
• Participate in a shared on-call and deployment rotation, including production support and incident response
• Support planned client deployments that may require evening or weekend availability
• Occasionally adjust regular working hours for deployments outside normal business hours, including approximately one weekend day per month

Requirements:

• Approximately 7+ years of experience in DevOps, cloud engineering, SRE, or a related field supporting production systems
• Strong AWS expertise, including cloud networking, security, and infrastructure management
• Experience with CI/CD, Terraform or similar infrastructure-as-code tools, and automation
• Experience with containerized or serverless applications, observability, and incident response
• Strong troubleshooting, communication, collaboration, and mentoring skills
• Candidates must be legally authorized to work in the United States
• Familiarity with GitLab, Terragrunt, Datadog, ECS/Fargate, Lambda, SQS, EventBridge, or comparable technologies is a plus