Contract Role - DevSecOps / AWS Platform Engineer

WorldVia is seeking a hands-on DevSecOps / AWS Platform Engineer to strengthen cloud and application security and migrate business-critical legacy systems into AWS. The role involves implementing secure infrastructure, improving development and deployment operations, and documenting systems for the internal team to maintain.

Responsibilities:

• Evaluate and strengthen application and AWS security, including identity, authorization, data protection, and infrastructure controls
• Implement automated security monitoring, vulnerability management, and incident response capabilities
• Embed security practices into our development workflows without unnecessarily slowing delivery
• Lead the technical migration of legacy production workloads into WorldVia-managed AWS environments
• Design secure, reliable, cost-effective AWS infrastructure supporting modern applications and traditional business systems
• Implement infrastructure as code, backup and recovery, monitoring, and operational automation
• Coordinate migration testing, validation, cutover, and stabilization with internal stakeholders
• Improve CI/CD pipelines, deployment automation, and environment management
• Integrate security scanning and automated safeguards into development workflows
• Establish practical infrastructure standards and reusable deployment patterns
• Support cloud infrastructure needs for applications incorporating generative AI and agentic workflows
• Document architecture, operating procedures, and technical decisions so our internal team can maintain and evolve the environment

Requirements:

• 4+ years of hands-on experience in DevOps, cloud infrastructure, platform engineering, SRE, or related disciplines
• Strong AWS expertise, including networking, compute, databases, IAM, security, monitoring, and infrastructure architecture
• Demonstrated experience migrating production workloads from legacy or third-party environments into AWS, preferably including Windows-based applications
• Practical experience implementing application and cloud security controls
• Proficiency with infrastructure as code, such as Terraform or AWS CDK
• Experience with GitHub Actions or comparable CI/CD systems, automated security scanning, and deployment automation
• Strong understanding of backup, disaster recovery, production monitoring, and incident response
• Ability to work independently, communicate clearly, and collaborate with a small, fast-moving engineering team
• Experience with multi-tenant SaaS platforms
• Amazon Bedrock, AgentCore, or other AI infrastructure
• Secure development practices involving AI coding tools
• Financial application or legacy enterprise system migrations
• PCI DSS or SOC 2 readiness experience
• Experience balancing security, reliability, infrastructure costs, and rapid product delivery