AWS DevOps Engineer
We are seeking a DevOps / SRE Engineer to design, build, and operate scalable AWS infrastructure with a strong emphasis on deployments, automation, and CI/CD. This role prioritizes enabling fast, reliable software delivery while maintaining high system availability and performance. You will work closely with development teams to streamline deployment pipelines, improve release velocity, and enforce infrastructure best practices.
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and manage AWS-based Linux infrastructure for scalable application deployments
- Own and optimize CI/CD pipelines to enable reliable, repeatable, and fast deployments
- Manage application releases, deployments, and rollback strategies across environments
- Automate infrastructure provisioning and application delivery using Infrastructure as Code
- Collaborate with development teams to improve build, test, and deployment workflows
- Troubleshoot deployment failures, pipeline issues, and production incidents
- Implement blue/green, canary, and rolling deployment strategies
- Maintain system reliability, monitoring, and alerting for production services
- Optimize performance, scalability, and cost of cloud infrastructure
- Enforce security best practices across infrastructure and deployment pipelines
- Maintain runbooks, deployment documentation, and operational procedures
- Participate in on-call rotation supporting production systems
Required Skills
- 5+ years of Linux system administration (RHEL, Ubuntu, Amazon Linux, Rocky/CentOS)
- 3+ years of AWS experience (EC2, VPC, IAM, S3, EKS, ALB/NLB, CloudWatch)
- Strong experience building and managing CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins)
- Hands-on experience with application deployments in cloud environments
- Proficiency in Bash and Python for automation
- Strong experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform preferred, CloudFormation acceptable)
- Experience with containerization (Docker) and orchestration (Kubernetes/EKS)
- Solid understanding of networking (TCP/IP, DNS, load balancing, firewalls)
- Familiarity with observability tools (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK/OpenSearch, Datadog)
- Experience implementing deployment strategies (blue/green, canary, rolling updates)
- Strong troubleshooting skills across pipelines, infrastructure, and applications
Nice to Have
- Limited exposure to Windows environments
Profile
- Strong focus on automation, deployment efficiency, and developer enablement
- Comfortable working in fast-paced environments with frequent releases
- Collaborative mindset with strong communication across DevOps and engineering teams
- Ownership-driven with a focus on continuous improvement and operational excellence
Other Details about the Job
- Benefits are offered such as medical/dental/vision insurance and vacation time. 401k will be obtained as a benefit after 1 full year of service.
- You will be placed at our Fair Lawn, NJ office, Please do not apply if you are not local or are not willing to relocate.
- Compensation for Cloud System Admin will range from $90,000 to $120,000 based on experience, if your experience falls outside required ranges compensation may be based on other open roles.
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What We Do
Five Rivers IT Provides IT infrastructure solutions to Small and Medium Businesses. Five Rivers IT strives to help businesses drive productivity, maximize value and increase reliability within their IT infrastructure. We accomplish this by providing our clients with the best IT architects, infrastructure solutions, data management and cloud services available. At Five Rivers IT, we build reliable IT infrastructures so you can run your business with peace of mind. We believe that IT solutions are the tools needed to run your business, and should not become your business. We avoid this scenario by partnering with our clients to determine effective solutions, often acting as their own IT staff, if necessary. Whether it’s an office move or moving to a cloud-based platform, we provide the knowledge, know-how and dedication necessary to get the work done – on time and within budget. Five Rivers IT offers strategic planning, project management and technical services that enable you to garner control of your IT systems. From conducting comprehensive requirement analyses to providing custom tailored solutions, Five Rivers IT is ready, willing and able to meet all of your technology needs.
