Senior DevOps Engineer - AWS, CI/CD, Security

Bluelight; Sur; Remote; COP 133,920,000 - 223,200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote work

Flexible hours

Generous PTO

Continuing education

Job summary

Bluelight is a leading software consultancy delivering innovative technology across the US and the Americas. We seek a senior DevOps/SRE/DevSecOps professional to join a growing team, shaping resilient, secure, cloud-native architectures and efficient delivery pipelines.

You will own AWS-based operations, IaC (Terraform or CloudFormation), Docker/ECS/Fargate, CI/CD, monitoring, incident response, and audit support, with a focus on quality, ownership, and customer success.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of 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

SRE

DevSecOps

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

AWS

Terraform

CloudFormation

Docker

ECS/Fargate

CI/CD

OpenTelemetry

CloudWatch

KMS

S3

RDS/Aurora

Job description

Bluelight is a leading software consultancy delivering innovative technology across the US and the Americas. We seek a senior DevOps/SRE/DevSecOps professional to join a growing team, shaping resilient, secure, cloud-native architectures and efficient delivery pipelines.

You will own AWS-based operations, IaC (Terraform or CloudFormation), Docker/ECS/Fargate, CI/CD, monitoring, incident response, and audit support, with a focus on quality, ownership, and customer success.