DevOps Engineer- AWS

What You Will Do: • We are seeking a Senior AWS DevOps Engineer to design, automate, and optimize cloud infrastructure and CI/CD pipelines while ensuring applications are highly available, scalable, secure and cost-efficient. • Hands-on experience with AWS services, automation frameworks, and DevOps best practices, while also capable of mentoring junior engineers and driving technical excellence across teams. • Develop and manage CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, AWS CodePipeline, etc.) and support containerized workloads (Docker, ECS, EKS, Kubernetes). • Enable automated testing, artifact management, and blue/green or canary deployments. • Implement observability, monitoring, and logging solutions using AWS CloudWatch, X-Ray, or third-party tools. • Troubleshoot system performance, latency, and reliability issues and define and maintain SLAs and SLOs. • Automate provisioning, scaling, monitoring, recovery processes, security scanning, and vulnerability management with CI/CD. • Ensure systems meet security, governance, and regulatory compliance requirements (HIPAA, FedRAMP, SOC 2, etc.) as applicable. • Implement IAM best practices, encryption strategies, and secure networking. • Work closely with developers, architects, and QA to ensure smooth releases. What You Will Need: • US Citizenship is required or Green Card Holder • Must be able to OBTAIN and MAINTAIN a Federal or DoD "PUBLIC TRUST"; candidates must obtain an approved adjudication of their PUBLIC TRUST prior to onboarding with Guidehouse. • Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, or related field. A Minimum of TEN(10) years of experience can be used in lieu of a degree. • A minimum of SIX(6) years of prior relevant experience in IT infrastructure, A minimum of THREE (3) years of experience in cloud engineering, DevOps, or infrastructure automation • Expertise in AWS core services (EC2, S3, RDS, Lambda, ECS/EKS, CloudFront, Route 53, IAM, etc.) • Assist senior transition team in account handoff validation, CI/CD pipeline validation, GitHub Actions audit, CodeBuild job review, Argo sync check, artifact migration, secrets verification, deployment dry runs, rollback prep, and cutover support. • Monitor deployment pipeline and build status, build troubleshooting, deployment automation, Helm chart maintenance, Dockerfile updates, environment config management, release coordination, and developer support. • Ownership of services like GitHub Actions, AWS CodeBuild, ArgoCD, Helm charts, Dockerfiles, secrets management, environment variables, deployment workflows, Terraform templates. • Hands-on experience with IaC (Terraform, CloudFormation, CDK) • Proven ability to work autonomously and collaborate, mentor, help, and support other team members, as needed to solve complex operational and reliability problems. • Strong development background in Python, Bash, or similar What Would Be Nice To Have: • AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Professional (Highly desirable). • Candidates with an ACTIVE PUBLIC TRUST or SUITABILITY are preferred. • AWS Certified Solutions Architect or other specialty certifications. Apply tot his job