Senior DevOps Engineer — Remote, High-Impact SRE
Bluelight
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Job summary
Bluelight is a leading software consultancy seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer to join our rapidly growing team. You will design and operate scalable, secure, and observable cloud infrastructure across clients, focusing on AWS services, IaC, CI/CD pipelines, and robust deployment practices.
Ideal candidates have 5+ years in DevOps/SRE/DevSecOps, hands-on AWS expertise, and a strong emphasis on security, reliability, and performance.
Qualifications
- 5+ years professional experience in DevOps, SRE, or DevSecOps roles.
- Strong hands-on experience with AWS services (ECS/Fargate, RDS/Aurora, ALB, VPC, IAM, CloudWatch, KMS, S3).
- Experience operating Aurora/PostgreSQL in production, including multi-AZ failover, read replicas, and replica lag monitoring.
- Experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform or CloudFormation).
- Experience with containerization and orchestration using Docker and ECS/Fargate.
- Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines.
- Experience with deployment automation and tested rollback paths, including rollback drills.
- Experience with monitoring, logging, and observability tooling (OpenTelemetry, CloudWatch, or similar).
- Experience with load testing (k6 or similar) and operating services against latency SLOs and error budgets.
- Security-first mindset: experience with vulnerability scanning, secrets management, and compliance/hardening practices.
- Experience supporting SOC 2 (or similar) audit evidence and client security reviews
- Experience with incident response, on-call rotations, and root-cause analysis
- Substantial background working with large, complex systems
- Ability to overlap US business hours
- Bachelor's degree required
- Extreme ownership and accountability for deliverables
- Client-focused dedication to team commitments
- Best practices knowledge and adherence
- Strong problem-solving ability
- Positive mindset and can-do attitude
- Meticulous attention to detail
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Job description
Bluelight is a leading software consultancy seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer to join our rapidly growing team. You will design and operate scalable, secure, and observable cloud infrastructure across clients, focusing on AWS services, IaC, CI/CD pipelines, and robust deployment practices.
Ideal candidates have 5+ years in DevOps/SRE/DevSecOps, hands-on AWS expertise, and a strong emphasis on security, reliability, and performance.
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