AWS DevOps Engineer
Location: Remote / Hybrid
Experience Level: Senior (4-6 years)
Summary
DevOps engineer responsible for provisioning hosted as well as managed AWS instances to support data, reporting, analytics, ML and AI use cases. Leverage AWS design principles, data access patterns, and relevant AWS services to enhance the efficiency and performance of the data applications. Improve cloud product reliability, availability, maintainability, and cost-benefit including developing fault-tolerant tools to ensure general robustness of cloud infrastructure. Assist in ensuring security best practices for cloud are followed and customer data is secured.
Core Responsibilities
- Design, implement, and maintain CI/CD pipelines for backend and microservices applications.
- Build and manage AWS infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code (CloudFormation, CDK, Terraform).
- Configure and operate core AWS services (EC2, ECS/EKS, Lambda, S3, RDS, VPC, CloudFront, API Gateway).
- Implement monitoring, logging, and alerting (CloudWatch, CloudTrail, X-Ray, OpenSearch).
- Improve reliability, scalability, and performance through automation, autoscaling, and capacity planning.
- Own deployment, incident response, and post-incident reviews for production environments.
- Implement security best practices (IAM, KMS, security groups, WAF, parameter/secret management).
- Optimize cost and usage of AWS resources and recommend architecture improvements.
- Collaborate closely with developers, QA, and product teams to streamline release processes.
Requirements
- 4 + years of experience with AWS core services and networking (VPC, subnets, routing, load balancers, security groups).
- Hands-on experience writing Terraform to provision and manage AWS cloud infrastructure.
- Hands-on experience with CI/CD tools (e.g., GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, AWS CodePipeline/CodeBuild/CodeDeploy).
- Proficiency in at least one scripting/programming language (Python, Bash, or similar).
- Experience with AWS serverless services (Lambda, Step Functions).
- Experience with containers and orchestration (Docker; EKS/Kubernetes or ECS/Fargate).
- Solid understanding of Linux administration and system troubleshooting.
- Knowledge of security, compliance, and best practices on AWS.
- Familiarity with observability tools (metrics, logs, traces) and incident management practices.
- Understanding of Agile/DevOps culture, including collaboration, automation, and continuous improvement.
- AWS certifications (e.g., DevOps Engineer, Solutions Architect).
We offer you a competitive total rewards package, continuing education & training, and tremendous potential with a growing worldwide organization.
DISCLAIMER:
Nothing in this job description restricts management's right to assign or reassign duties and responsibilities of this job to other entities; including but not limited to subsidiaries, partners, or purchasers of Alight business units.
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What We Do
Alight is a leading cloud-based human capital technology and services provider that powers confident health, wealth and wellbeing decisions for 36 million people and dependents. Our Alight Worklife® platform combines data and analytics with a simple, seamless user experience. Supported by our global delivery capabilities, Alight Worklife is transforming the employee experience for people around the world. With personalized, data-driven health, wealth, pay and wellbeing insights, Alight brings people the security of better outcomes and peace of mind throughout life’s big moments and most important decisions. Learn how Alight unlocks growth for organizations of all sizes at alight.com.
