AWS DevOps / CloudOps Engineer

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*This is an exempt position. Salary commensurate  with experience* Job Title: AWS DevOps / CloudOps Engineer

Location: Schenectady, NY (Hybrid)

Duration:

12 Months   (with potential for extension)

Start Date: estimated - September 1, 2026

Hourly Rate:

W2 $50-$70/hour

Application Deadline: ASAP

Employment Type:

Full Time

Overview:

We are seeking an AWS DevOps / CloudOps Engineer who will support our NYS client. This role will design, automate, secure, and support scalable AWS cloud infrastructure, with a focus on infrastructure-as-code, CI/CD, multi-account governance, monitoring, cost optimization, and reliable 24x7 operations and maintenance.

Duties:

• Design, develop, and maintain infrastructure-as-code solutions and reusable templates for provisioning and managing AWS resources.
• Automate the deployment, configuration, scaling, and lifecycle management of development, testing, sandbox, and production environments.
• Design and maintain CI/CD pipelines that automate build, testing, deployment, release, rollback, blue/green, and canary deployment processes.
• Implement AWS security controls, identity and access management, encryption, secrets management, compliance validation, and vulnerability remediation processes.
• Support multi-account AWS governance, account provisioning, resource policies, tagging standards, cost allocation, and cloud account lifecycle management.
• Develop automated sandbox and self-service environment provisioning capabilities while maintaining platform standards and controls.
• Implement monitoring, alerting, logging, observability, dashboards, and health monitoring across cloud infrastructure and applications.
• Support incident response, root cause analysis, patching, upgrades, maintenance windows, disaster recovery exercises, and operational problem resolution.
• Create and maintain operational runbooks, standard operating procedures, recovery processes, and platform support documentation.
• Monitor AWS consumption, optimize resource utilization and costs, support budgeting and forecasting, and recommend improvements that balance cost, performance, and reliability.
• Provide ongoing operational support for AWS environments and participate in 24x7 on-call and operations and maintenance activities as required.
• Collaborate with application development, architecture, security, governance, and operations teams to improve platform reliability and deployment efficiency.

Mandatory Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related field.
• 5+ years of experience in DevOps, Cloud Engineering, Site Reliability Engineering, or infrastructure operations.
• 3+ years of hands-on experience supporting AWS cloud environments.
• Strong experience with infrastructure-as-code methodologies and cloud automation practices.
• Experience designing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines and release automation processes.
• Experience implementing cloud monitoring, logging, alerting, and observability solutions.
• Experience supporting cloud security, compliance, governance, identity and access management, encryption, and secrets management initiatives.
• Experience supporting highly available, production-critical cloud environments and operational incident response.
• Experience with multi-account governance, environment provisioning, configuration management, cost optimization, and AWS operational support.
• Ability to participate in 24x7 operations, maintenance, incident response, and on-call rotations as required.

Desirable Qualifications:

• Experience supporting multi-account AWS Organizations and cloud governance frameworks.
• Experience with containerization and orchestration technologies.
• Experience with disaster recovery and business continuity planning.
• Experience supporting regulated or compliance-driven environments.
• Experience with FinOps, cloud budgeting, forecasting, and cost allocation practices.
• Knowledge of Site Reliability Engineering practice…