AWS DevOps Engineer

Ethereum Technologies LLC; Sunnyvale (CA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Ethereum Technologies in Sunnyvale, CA is seeking a seasoned Database DevOps Engineer to design, implement, and operate scalable AWS-based database infrastructure. You will own CI/CD pipelines, IaC automation, and robust monitoring to keep production and non-production environments healthy.

You will collaborate with DBAs, ensure HA/DR across multi-AZ and multi-region deployments, manage secrets with IAM, and drive cost optimization while building self-service tools and runbooks.

Qualifications

• Experience designing and operating cloud-based, scalable database infrastructure.
• Strong background in DevOps practices for CI/CD pipelines and IaC automation.
• Proficiency with AWS services, security, and cost-optimization strategies.

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, AWS CodePipeline, or similar tools.
• Automate infrastructure provisioning using IaC tools such as Terraform, CloudFormation, or AWS CDK.
• Develop and maintain monitoring, alerting, and observability solutions for database health using CloudWatch, Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, or OEM.
• Collaborate with DBAs to automate database operations, including backups, patching, failover/switchover, replication setup, and capacity planning.
• Implement and manage High Availability (HA) and Disaster Recovery (DR) strategies across multi-AZ and multi-region AWS environments.
• Develop self-service tools, automation scripts, and runbooks to reduce manual operational efforts for DBA teams.
• Manage database secrets, credentials, and access using AWS Secrets Manager, IAM roles, and least-privilege principles.
• Participate in on-call rotations, incident response, troubleshooting, and Root Cause Analysis (RCA) for database and infrastructure outages.
• Drive AWS cost optimization through resource right-sizing, Reserved Instances, and storage tiering.
• Develop and maintain automation scripts using Python, Bash, and Ansible, along with technical documentation and architecture diagrams.
• Collaborate with security and compliance teams to ensure database infrastructure meets encryption, auditing, and regulatory requirements.

Skills

Python

CI/CD

Tools

Jenkins

GitLab CI

AWS CodePipeline

Terraform

CloudFormation

AWS CDK

CloudWatch

Prometheus

Job description

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

Work Authorization: US Citizen, Green Card, OPT-EAD, CPT, H-1B, H4-EAD, Other

Job 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, AWS CodePipeline, or similar tools.
• Automate infrastructure provisioning using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools such as Terraform, CloudFormation, or AWS CDK.
• Develop and maintain monitoring, alerting, and observability solutions for database health using CloudWatch, Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, or OEM.
• Collaborate with DBAs to automate database operations, including backups, patching, failover/switchover, replication setup, and capacity planning.
• Implement and manage High Availability (HA) and Disaster Recovery (DR) strategies across multi-AZ and multi-region AWS environments.
• Develop self-service tools, automation scripts, and runbooks to reduce manual operational efforts for DBA teams.
• Manage database secrets, credentials, and access using AWS Secrets Manager, IAM roles, and least-privilege principles.
• Participate in on-call rotations, incident response, troubleshooting, and Root Cause Analysis (RCA) for database and infrastructure outages.
• Drive AWS cost optimization through resource right-sizing, Reserved Instances, and storage tiering.
• Develop and maintain automation scripts using Python, Bash, and Ansible, along with technical documentation and architecture diagrams.
• Collaborate with security and compliance teams to ensure database infrastructure meets encryption, auditing, and regulatory requirements.

Required Skills :

• Python
• DevOps – Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD)

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.