DevOps Engineer AWS / GitHub Actions - CommIT

OpenTalent; Mexico; On-site; PHP 600,000 - 900,000; Full time

Job summary

OpenTalent is seeking an experienced DevOps Engineer with strong AWS operations expertise to modernize infrastructure and drive a CI/CD transformation. This is a hands-on role focused on building a mature DevOps function and collaborating closely with the team on day-to-day operations.

The role emphasizes moving AWS codebase into GitHub Actions, standardizing pipelines, and improving production support through robust monitoring and incident response practices.

Qualifications

• Experience delivering CI/CD transformations in AWS environments.
• Ability to design and implement scalable DevOps pipelines and IaC.
• Strong focus on monitoring, alerting, and reliability.

Responsibilities

• Hands-on DevOps lead building a mature function from the inside.
• Move the company AWS codebase into GitHub Actions to streamline pipelines.
• Modernize infrastructure and tighten production support and incident response.

Skills

CI/CD design

Monitoring & observability

Production support

Cost optimization

AWS operations

Security best practices

Tools

GitHub Actions

Terraform

CloudFormation

Datadog

Slack integrations

ECS/Docker

Python

Bash

Job description

Description

The company is looking for an experienced DevOps Engineer with strong AWS operational expertise to modernize their infrastructure, tighten production support, and drive a CI/CD transformation. This is a hands-on engineering role — the person builds a mature DevOps function from the inside and works closely, day to day, with Oscar. The headline project: moving the company AWS codebase into GitHub Actions.

Requirements

Must-have:

• AWS infrastructure & operations — EC2, Auto Scaling, Load Balancers, VPC networking fundamentals, operational troubleshooting
• GitHub Actions — required. Workflow design, reusable workflows, secrets/OIDC, migrating existing pipelines in
• CI/CD & deployment automation — pipeline design and standardization, release management practices
• Infrastructure as Code — Terraform or CloudFormation
• Monitoring & observability — dashboard design, alerting strategy, monitoring cleanup and rationalization (Datadog or an equivalent tool; they may move off Datadog)
• Cost optimization & capacity planning — AWS spend analysis, resource optimization, scaling and de-scaling strategy
• AWS security — WAF administration and security best practices
• Production support — incident detection and response process

Nice-to-have:

• Datadog specifically (administration and optimization)
• Slack integrations for alerting
• Containers — ECS / EKS / Docker
• Scripting — Python or Bash
• Financial services or other regulated-environment background
• AWS certification (SysOps Administrator / Solutions Architect / DevOps Engineer Professional)

Originally posted on Himalayas