Senior AWS DevOps Engineer - Remote

Bluelight; Bogotá ciudad; Hybrid; COP 120,000,000 - 180,000,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Bonuses

Generous PTO

Flexible hours

Remote work

Education & certs

Job summary

Bluelight is seeking a seasoned DevOps/SRE/DevSecOps engineer to join our expanding consultancy in Bogotá. You will design, build, and operate scalable cloud platforms, emphasizing reliability, security, and automation for diverse client projects.

The ideal candidate has 5+ years of professional DevOps experience, strong AWS skills, IaC, CI/CD, and incident response expertise, with a proactive, collaborative mindset and willingness to align with US business hours.

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

Skills

DevOps

AWS

Terraform

Docker

CI/CD

Security

Incident response

SOC 2

On-call

Large-scale systems

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

CloudFormation

OpenTelemetry

S3

KMS

PostgreSQL

CloudWatch

Job description

Bluelight is seeking a seasoned DevOps/SRE/DevSecOps engineer to join our expanding consultancy in Bogotá. You will design, build, and operate scalable cloud platforms, emphasizing reliability, security, and automation for diverse client projects.

The ideal candidate has 5+ years of professional DevOps experience, strong AWS skills, IaC, CI/CD, and incident response expertise, with a proactive, collaborative mindset and willingness to align with US business hours.