Associate AWS DevOps Engineer – Cloud Automation & CI/CD

KBR Careers; Sioux Falls (SD); On-site; USD 85,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401K with company match

Health insurance

Job summary

KBR is hiring an Associate AWS DevOps Engineer to support AWS environments for mission‑critical workloads. You will work with cloud, DevOps, architecture, cybersecurity, and infrastructure teams to advance cloud modernization and expertise in IaC, CI/CD, containers, security, and FinOps.

This early‑career role focuses on deploying and maintaining AWS environments, building pipelines, and applying security practices while learning from seasoned engineers and architects within KBR.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related technical field, or an equivalent combination of education and relevant experience.
• At least two years of relevant experience in cloud engineering, DevOps, platform engineering, systems administration, software development, infrastructure automation, cybersecurity engineering, or a related field.
• Hands‑on experience with AWS cloud services.
• Experience with at least one Infrastructure as Code technology, such as Terraform, AWS Cloud Development Kit, or AWS CloudFormation.
• Experience with a scripting or programming language such as Python, Bash, PowerShell, Java, Go, or JavaScript.
• Experience with Linux administration, command‑line tools, scripting, or troubleshooting.
• Git and source‑code management; CI/CD; Docker, Kubernetes, Amazon EKS/ECS; Cloud networking, IAM, encryption, logging, monitoring, and security practices.

Responsibilities

• Deploy, configure, maintain, monitor, and troubleshoot AWS cloud environments.
• Support application and infrastructure migration and modernization.
• Develop and maintain Infrastructure as Code using Terraform, AWS Cloud Development Kit, AWS CloudFormation, or comparable tools.
• Create automation using Python, Bash, PowerShell, Go, Rust, or similar languages.
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines using GitLab, GitLab Runners, GitHub Actions, or comparable platforms.
• Automate build, testing, security scanning, artifact management, deployment, validation, promotion, and rollback processes.
• Support containerized workloads using Docker, Kubernetes, Amazon EKS, Amazon ECS, Helm, and applicable GitOps tools.
• Apply security practices covering IAM, encryption, secrets, vulnerabilities, logging, auditing, and least‑privilege access.
• Support environments subject to FedRAMP, FISMA, NIST, customer, and contract security requirements.
• Assist with compliance documentation, evidence collection, remediation, and continuous monitoring.
• Maintain monitoring, alerting, dashboards, runbooks, backups, recovery processes, and service-health checks.
• Troubleshoot cloud infrastructure, Linux, networking, pipelines, containers, and application deployments; escalate complex issues.
• Apply FinOps practices such as tagging, cost monitoring, rightsizing, scheduling, storage optimization, and identifying unused resources.
• Maintain technical documentation, diagrams, configuration records, and operating procedures.
• Participate in technical reviews, code reviews, Agile planning, incident response, knowledge sharing, and continuous improvement.
• Use approved Generative AI tools for documentation, scripting, testing, troubleshooting, and automation in accordance with security and responsible‑use requirements.

Skills

AWS cloud

DevOps

Python scripting

Terraform

Git

CI/CD

Kubernetes

Linux

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/IT/Engineering or related field

Equivalent work experience

Tools

Terraform

AWS CDK

CloudFormation

GitLab / GitHub Actions

Docker

Kubernetes

Helm

Job description

KBR is hiring an Associate AWS DevOps Engineer to support AWS environments for mission‑critical workloads. You will work with cloud, DevOps, architecture, cybersecurity, and infrastructure teams to advance cloud modernization and expertise in IaC, CI/CD, containers, security, and FinOps.

This early‑career role focuses on deploying and maintaining AWS environments, building pipelines, and applying security practices while learning from seasoned engineers and architects within KBR.