AWS Devops Engineer

Quantum Technologies LLC; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 83,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Quantum Technologies LLC in Austin, TX is seeking an AWS DevOps Engineer to design, provision, and manage AWS infrastructure supporting production and non-production environments.

You will build and maintain CI/CD pipelines, automate infrastructure with IaC, monitor health, coordinate with DBAs, ensure HA/DR, implement security controls, and contribute to cost optimization while writing automation scripts and documenting architecture.

Qualifications

• Design, provision, and manage AWS infrastructure for production and non-production environments.
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines for database deployments and configuration management.
• Automate infrastructure provisioning using IaC tools such as Terraform, CloudFormation, or AWS CDK.
• Develop and maintain observability solutions for database health using CloudWatch, Prometheus, Grafana.

Responsibilities

• Design, provision, and manage AWS infrastructure supporting production and non-production database environments.
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines for database deployments, schema migrations, and configuration management using Jenkins, GitLab CI, CodePipeline, or similar.
• Automate infrastructure provisioning using IaC (Terraform, CloudFormation, or AWS CDK).
• Develop and maintain monitoring, alerting, and observability for database health using CloudWatch, Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, or OEM.
• Collaborate with DBAs to automate backups, patching, failover, replication, and capacity planning.
• Implement HA/DR strategies across multi-AZ/multi-region AWS environments.
• Build self-service tooling and runbooks to reduce manual DBA overhead.
• Manage secrets, credentials, and database access with AWS Secrets Manager and IAM.
• Participate in on-call rotation, incident response, and RCA for outages.
• Drive cost optimization for database infrastructure through right-sizing and tiering.
• Write automation scripts (Python, Bash, Ansible) and architecture diagrams.
• Partner with security/compliance to meet encryption and auditing requirements.

Skills

AWS

DevOps

CI/CD

Terraform

Monitoring

Security compliance

Tools

Jenkins

GitLab CI

CodePipeline

AWS CDK

Job description

US Citizen, Green Card, H-1B, OPT-EAD, CPT, Other

Job Title: AWS Devops Engineer
Location: Austin, TX
Duration: 13 Months + Extension
Bill Rate: $66/hour (C2C)
Job Type: W-2, 1099, C2C
Client: To Be Discussed Later
Work Authorization: US Citizen, Green Card, OPT-EAD, CPT, H-1B, H4-EAD, Other

Job Responsibility:

• Design, provision, and manage AWS infrastructure supporting production and non-production database environments.
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines for database deployments, schema migrations, and configuration management using tools like Jenkins, GitLab CI, CodePipeline, or similar.
• Automate infrastructure provisioning using Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform, CloudFormation, or AWS CDK).
• Develop and maintain monitoring, alerting, and observability solutions for database health (CPU, memory, replication lag, disk I/O, connection pools) using tools such as CloudWatch, Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, or OEM.
• Collaborate with DBAs to automate routine database operations: backups, patching, failover/switchover, replication setup (Data Guard, GoldenGate, native replication), and capacity planning.
• Implement and manage High Availability (HA) and Disaster Recovery (DR) strategies across multi-AZ/multi-region AWS environments.
• Build self-service tooling and runbooks to reduce manual operational overhead for the DBA team.
• Manage secrets, credentials, and database access using AWS Secrets Manager, IAM roles, and least-privilege principles.
• Participate in on-call rotation, incident response, and root cause analysis (RCA) for database/infrastructure outages.
• Drive cost optimization initiatives for database infrastructure (right-sizing, reserved instances, storage tiering).
• Write and maintain documentation, automation scripts (Python, Bash, Ansible), and architecture diagrams.
• Partner with security/compliance teams to ensure database infrastructure meets encryption, auditing, and regulatory requirements.

We are an equal opportunity employer. All aspects of employment including the decision to hire, promote, discipline, or discharge, will be based on merit, competence, performance, and business needs. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, marital status, age, national origin, ancestry, physical or mental disability, medical condition, pregnancy, genetic information, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, citizenship/ immigration status, veteran status, or any other status protected under federal, state, or local law.